This week saw more winners and losers in the media and entertainment shootout than in any typical seven-day grind. Comcast, being a multi-faceted corporation, has been fortunate and unfortunate enough to fall into both camps. The cable TV giant reported a torrid set of results for the second quarter 2024 – not only shedding another 419,000 pay TV subscribers, but also experiencing its heaviest ever loss of broadband users, trailing 120,000 members. Comcast’s pay TV subscribership has now withered to 13.2 million, down from 15 million a year earlier and from 22.5 million 10 years ago. Meanwhile the operator’s broadband base—so often the silver lining against the black clouds of cable TV—bombed dangerously close to falling below 32 million users,…