There are no flukes in cable. Just ask Comcast, the first cable operator in a decade to report a full year of positive video subscriber growth, ending 2016 with 161,000 more customers than in the previous year. That the MSO managed to do so just as over-the-top and alternative video delivery systems were proliferating, gaining legitimacy and chipping away at traditional pay TV customer rolls, was remarkable enough, but it was no fluke. Read the story by MCN senior finance editor Mike Farrell, plus the following articles from the week of Sept. 25.