Comcastbeat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue andearningsdespite an 8% year-over-year drop in domestic advertising.
Earnings per share reached $1.08 on an adjusted basis, up from 96 cents a year ago.
Its revenue shot up 64% year-over-year to reach $830 million, as losses narrowed.
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Domestic advertising revenue dropped 8% to $1.9 billion.
Comcasts pay-TV business shed 490,000 residential customers compared with a year ago, settling at 14.5 million.
While Comcast has long had the No.
