Comcast’s first quarterly results after sealing the Sky acquisition for $39 billion in September, continued the recent theme of heavy churn from cable to OTT, offset by healthy growth in high speed broadband. The cable TV exodus shows no sign of slowing down with 342,000 net subs lost for the first nine months of 2018 after taking account of gains registered by the Xfinity Instant TV OTT service. Unlike Sky’s Now TV in Europe, Xfinity Instant TV is only available to Comcast broadband subscribers, but that is likely to change soon as the operator starts to align its global strategy more with Sky. This partly reflects failure of Comcast’s defense of multi-play bundles in the US as consumers continue to swing more…