 Comcasts net income slid in the first three months of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forced it to shut down its theme parks and its movies were kept out of shuttered theaters. Comcast also reported Thursday that it lost 409,000 cable TV customers, the biggest source of the companys profits, as cord-cutting accelerated. Thats already more than half the 671,000 customers it lost in all of 2019. But it added 477,000 internet customers, which it said was its best quarterly number in more than a decade. It came as U.S. workplace shutdowns began in March and a mass work-from-home migration underscored the role home internet plays in Americans lives. Americans are increasingly opting for cheaper streaming video providers that are delivered over the internet, like Netflix, which both benefits and harms Comcasts business as an internet and traditional TV provider. Competition in online video is also increasing with new entrants like Disney and Apple. Comcasts own streaming service, Peacock, will launch nationwide in July, with free and paid versions. In the Philadelphia companys NBCUniversal arm, revenue slid 7 and a key profit measure plunged by 25 as the Universal Studios parks closed and closed movie theaters hurt box office. It is experimenting with alternatives, releasing Trolls World Tour digitally in April, the current quarter. Comcast said it was a success. Analysts expect ad revenues on NBC and the companys cable channels to decline this year, especially as the Olympics, a big ratings draw, have been postponed until 2021. Ad revenue in the first quarter dipped 2.2 for cable channels and was nearly unchanged for the broadcast channels, NBC and Telemundo. But the outbreaks impact only started being felt in the U.S. at the end of the... 