Comcast's Cohen Hosting Obama at DNC Fund-raiser

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President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at a fund-raiser Thursday night at the home of Comcast EVP David Cohen, a Comcast source confirms. Cohen oversees government affairs for the company.

The president is listed as speaking at 8:30 at a private residence in Philadelphia, according to a copy of the president's schedule, which the source confirmed as the Cohen event.

Cohen, one-time chief of staff to Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, also hosted a fund-raiser back in 2008 when the president was first running. Thursday's event is multipurpose, with contributions to the DNC generally as well as the president's campaign being solicited.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.