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This review is from: ASUS Z87-PRO LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Pros: This board is a beast and a work horse and has everything you could possible want/need on a board but that's not why I am writing this review. I am here to tell you that your on your own when you need to figure out how to fix your board.
Cons: Phone support is TERRIBLE! My CPU overclock failed and I was looking for phone support to help me, Now they did pick up in the middle of the night (around 10 PM) which I thought was awesome. Support immediately picked up which was also awesome, No wait. But as soon as I completely told the person on the other end which surprisingly didn't have a foreign accent proceeded to tell me that I should just look up my problems on google. I mean come on I built a computer from scratch, wouldn't you believe that I am tech savvy enough to search diagnostics to solve my problem on google before calling you. When I asked "Maybe I should reset my overclock, Can you tell me how I can do that" She said it possibly could destroy some of my parts and that if I was interested though that I should look it up on youtube.... Essentially my support experience was "Go look it up on the internet." If the phone support wasn't bad enough, The website support was terrible. I went to the product page on the official website and clicked support. It didn't really offer any information, a forum and bad enough the FAQ didnt have much to do with the hardware part of the motherboard. Asus just left me in the middle of my prom with my pants down. Of course after flipping a forum I found out that the have CMOS on the motherboard, I switched the pins. It flashed, Booted nicely and AI Suite re-overclocked my CPU. Im still having problems, I wish someone from Asus support could actually sit with me and tell me some answers to my problems instead of telling me to head to google. I buy Asus religiously because of the quality, But man support was terrible.
Note: it was my first time calling support.
Other Thoughts: I was originally at an AI Suite overclock of 4.8, As I fixed the problem my self by CMOS It overclocked as a rebooted to 4.2.. I know it was a power issue because on start up it would wind up the fans and then turn off in a loop.READ FULL REVIEW
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Comes with USB Sata adapter and mounting brackets.
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Early Open start for Woods
Tiger Woods will not have to wait too long to make his competitive return to Hoylake in the 143rd Open Championship, which gets under way on Thursday.
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Woods, who claimed his third Claret Jug the last time the Open was staged at Hoylake in 2006, will start his first round at 9:04am alongside Argentina's Angel Cabrera and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.
After missing the first two majors of the year following back surgery, Woods returned to action in the Quicken Loans National at the end of June, although he missed the halfway cut at Congressional.
The 14-time major winner has not played competitively since, but completed 12 holes in practice on Saturday and a full round on Sunday and was in buoyant mood.
"I can do whatever I want. I'm at that point now," the 38-year-old said of his recovery from surgery on March 31. "We didn't think we'd get to that point until this tournament or the week after.
"Before I had the procedure, I was at the point I couldn't do anything. This is how I used to feel. I had been playing with [the back injury] for a while and I had my good weeks and bad weeks. Now they are all good."
Double Open champion Padraig Harrington is in the group after Woods along with 2011 Masters winner Charl Schwartzel and Korea's KJ Choi, with former world number one Rory McIlroy next out with American Jordan Spieth and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama.
Phil Mickelson gets the defence of his title under way at 2:05pm in the company of 2012 winner Ernie Els and current Masters champion Bubba Watson, with Scottish Open winner Justin Rose out two groups later with world number one Adam Scott and former US PGA champion Jason Dufner.
US Open champion Martin Kaymer begins his bid for a second major of the year at 1:38pm alongside Australian Jason Day and former Masters champion Zach Johnson.
England's David Howell has the honour of hitting the opening tee shot at 6:25am, with 2001 champion David Duval and Sweden's Robert Karlsson making up the first group.
The final group does not tee off until almost 10 hours later, England's Christopher Rodgers, Scotland's Scott Jamieson and Korea's An Byeong-hun getting their challenge under way at 4:06pm.
Open Championship first round tee times in full (USA unless stated, all times BST):
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0625 David Duval, David Howell (Eng), Robert Karlsson (Swe)
0636 Dawie Van Der Walt (Rsa), Cameron Tringale, Masanori Kobayashi (Jpn)
0647 Chris Wood (Eng), Matthew Jones (Aus), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
0658 Hyung-sung Kim (Kor), Erik Compton, Marc Leishman (Aus)
0709 Koumei Oda (Jpn), Ben Martin, Anirban Lahiri (Ind)
0720 Brooks Koepka, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha), Edoardo Molinari (Ita)
0731 Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Branden Grace (Rsa), Ashley Chesters (Eng)
0742 Justin Leonard, Ben Curtis, Paul Lawrie (Sco)
0753 Ryan Moore, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Thorbjorn Olesen (Den)
0804 Matteo Manassero (Ita), Bradley Neil (Sco), Mikko Ilonen (Fin)
0815 Thomas Bjorn (Den), Patrick Reed, Stewart Cink
0826 Tom Watson, Jim Furyk, Darren Clarke (Nirl)
0837 Luke Donald (Eng), Rickie Fowler, Sergio Garcia (Spa)
0853 Paul Casey (Eng), Harris English, Matthew Every
0904 Tiger Woods, Angel Cabrera (Arg), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
0915 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Padraig Harrington (Irl), K J Choi (Kor)
0926 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Rory McIlroy (Nirl), Jordan Spieth
0937 Ian Poulter (Eng), Dustin Johnson, Jimmy Walker
0948 Matt Kuchar, Graeme McDowell (Nirl), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa)
0959 Hunter Mahan, Stephen Gallacher (Sco), Victor Dubuisson (Fra)
1010 Sir Nick Faldo (Eng), Todd Hamilton, Mark Calcavecchia
1021 Brett Rumford (Aus), Ryan Palmer, Tomohiro Kondo (Jpn)
1032 John Singleton (Eng), Peter Uihlein, Marc Warren (Sco)
1043 Paul Mckechnie (Sco), Kristoffer Broberg (Swe), Juvic Pagunsan (Phi)
1054 Rhein Gibson (Aus), Brian Harman, Hyung-tae Kim (Jpn)
1105 Oscar Floren (Swe), Chris Hanson (Eng), Yoshinobu Tsukada (Jpn)
1126 Matthew Southgate (Eng), James Mcleary (Sco), Hiroshi Iwata (Jpn)
1137 Roberto Castro, Victor Riu (Fra), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
1148 Dong-kyu Jang (Kor), Nick Watney, Shawn Stefani
1159 Y.E. Yang (Kor), D.A. Points, Brendan Steele
1210 Scott Stallings, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Bryden Macpherson (Aus)
1221 Charley Hoffman, George Coetzee (Rsa), Michael Hoey (Nirl)
1232 Brendon De Jonge (Zim), Kevin Streelman, Brendon Todd
1243 Gary Woodland, Sandy Lyle (Sco), Kevin Stadler
1254 Graham Delaet (Can), Brandt Snedeker, Cheng-tsung Pan (Chn)
1305 Boo Weekley, Danny Willett (Eng), Ashun Wu (Chn)
1316 J.B. Holmes, Jonas Blixt (Swe), Chris Kirk
1327 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Bill Haas, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha)
1338 Jason Day (Aus), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Zach Johnson
1354 Jamie Donaldson (Wal), Webb Simpson, Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn)
1405 Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els (Rsa), Bubba Watson
1416 Russell Henley, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Billy Horschel
1427 Adam Scott (Aus), Justin Rose (Eng), Jason Dufner
1438 Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn), Lee Westwood (Eng), Keegan Bradley
1449 Kevin Na, Joost Luiten (Ned), John Senden (Aus)
1500 John Daly, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Ross Fisher (Eng)
1511 Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Mark Wiebe, Paul Dunne (Irl)
1522 Oliver Fisher (Eng), Chesson Hadley, Shane Lowry (Irl)
1533 Richard Sterne (Rsa), George McNeill, Chris Stroud
1544 Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Jin Jeong (Kor), Matthew Baldwin (Eng)
1555 Justin Walters (Rsa), Rhys Enoch (Wal), Billy Hurley III
1606 Chris Rodgers (Eng), Scott Jamieson (Sco), Byeong-Hun An (Kor)

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CHICAGO -- Make it four consecutive strong starts and counting for Cubs left-hander Paul Maholm, who has joined the team's collection of solid rotation guys.
Ryan Dempster, Matt Garza and Jeff Samardzija have also been impressive in the early going, with the starters posting a 2.52 ERA over the last 16 games.
After allowing just one run in each of his last three starts, Maholm topped that by giving up nothing over seven innings in the Cubs' 1-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.
"Whenever I take the ball I'm going to expect to go deep into the game and let the defense pick me up and win games," Maholm said. "Whether you're the No. 1 or the No. 5, the day you pitch is your day. You're the No. 1 guy and you have to get the job done. I think the last four games I've pitched well."
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Spartans Star RB Jeremy Langford Talks About Michigan State Football Moving Forward!
Q: This has been the #1 goal for the past 7 years and now you've done it. How do you now avoid complacency?
LANGFORD: Next year I think we go for an even higher goal. Coach D does a great job. He let us know to don't become complacent and don't get overwhelmed with people believing in you now. Because before there were plenty of times where nobody believed in us and we just kept working as a team and stayed together.
Q: Was that the biggest message you guys got at the team meeting the other day?
LANGFORD: Yeah, just don't become complacent, don't become soft, and just keep working. Keep the ball rolling into next year and set our goals even higher.
Q: Do you have a sense now that you need to go out and be a leader and push guys like guys pushed you before?
LANGFORD: Yeah. I even did it my Junior year last year, when I didn't know if I was gonna be playing or starting yet. It's just something you have to do for the young freshmen coming in who don't really know what it's like yet. You gotta push them and let them know this is Michigan State football. We all work, regardless of who you are or what you do.
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LANGFORD: I think just start faster in games. The last three games I didn't start as fast as I wanted to. Start fast and break more tackles and just be more of a leader on the field, help my team out at whatever I can do basically. Break more tackles, start fast.
Q: When was the first time you all got back together here in East Lansing?
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Q: What has this past week been like for you?
LANGFORD: It's been crazy. When we first get off the bus from California, when the fans are out there and the news channels and all that, all different people, it was crazy. It's something I couldn't believe. The beginning of the season I would have never thought of it. It's an amazing feeling right now.
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I used to have a very bulbous nose. I had rhinoplasty 5 months ago to correct a few deformities - mainly a deviated tip. My surgeon ended up completely flattening down and removing all bulbousness from one side of my nose. Its even concave at the tip on that side. That whole side of my nose is dented in and flat. The other side is still somewhat contoured. Can a revision puff the flattened side of my nose out again? How difficult is that?
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Five months too early to consider revision surgery on bulbous tip.
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Can a revision rhinoplasty restore the contour/bulbous shape to my nose?
Photos and/or an exam would really be necessary to give you the best advice. It is possible you may benefit from a revision down the road, but only an exam can tell for sure. I would recommend seeking the advice of a board certified revision rhinoplasty specialist. They will be able to look at your nose in person and give you feedback. You will still have residual swelling after 5 months, and will need to give it some time and see how you continue to heal. It is best to wait around one year before considering a revision. I hope this helps, and I wish you the best of luck.
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A revision rhinoplasty may be possible but I would give it at least 9 to 12 months before you make this decision. I would also ask your surgeon why he thinks this happened and if he believes it will improve over time.
Revision rhinoplasty can restore the contour of the bulbouls shape to your nose.
Revision rhinoplasty can restore the contour of the bulbouls shape to your nose. You need to wait three months to see a revision rhinoplasty experienced surgeon and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adding cartilage to the flat side or removing cartilage from the bulbous side.
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Wait another 5-6 months before evaluating your result and considering possible changes. I would not recommend restoring the bulbous contour that you did not like before your original surgery. Find a surgeon who specializes in revision surgery.
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October 30, 2013, 8:30 a.m. ET
Marlene Dooner – SVP, Investor Relations
Brian Roberts – Chairman & CEO
Michael Angelakis – CFO
Neil Smit – EVP, Comcast Corporation, President & CEO, Comcast Cable Communications
Steve Burke – EVP, Comcast Corporation & CEO, NBC Universal
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Comcast's first quarter 2013 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions.] . I will now turn the call over to Senior Vice President Investor Relations, Ms. Marlene Dooner. Please go ahead, Ms. Dooner.
Marlene Dooner
Thank you, operator, and welcome, everyone. Joining me on this morning's call are Brian Roberts, Michael Angelakis, Steve Burke, and Neil Smit. As we have done in the past, Brian and Michael will make formal remarks, and Steve and Neil will also be available for Q&A.
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Thanks, Marlene, and good morning everyone. I'm really pleased with our results this quarter, and so far in the first nine months of the year. We have real momentum across all of our businesses, reporting strong revenue growth of 5.2% and cash flow growth of 10.5% when you adjust for the Olympics and pension termination costs.
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We continue to focus on delivering the best and most innovative products, and on providing more value to our customers, all backed by a compelling brand message that attracts customers and potential customers alike. In fact, our XFINITY brand metrics continue to move up. Brand consideration reached its highest level this third quarter, and we have grown the rate at which non-customers would consider purchasing our services by 70% since we launched the XFINITY brand.
In high-speed internet, we are delivering some of the fastest speeds across devices, both inside and outside of the home. We have installed more than 6 million wireless gateways in our customers' homes and expanded our wifi coverage to now more than 350,000 hot spots.
In video, we recently expanded our partnership with CBS, adding to our already substantial on demand choices, and giving our customers even more opportunities to catch up and stay current with a bigger selection of shows.
Real progress has been made in this last year, and customers now have access to the most comprehensive video experience no matter where they want to watch, with close to 50,000 on demand choices and more than 250,000 streaming options, including the full current season of more than 200 television series from all major networks, and nearly all of the top 50 rated shows on television. And customers love all this choice, as they have viewed on demand 30 billion times in the last 10 years and watched on demand 400 million times a month on average.
Just like we have transformed our video offering by expanding our content choices and deploying all digital, we believe the X1 platform now represents another step function in the evolution of our service. X1 is deployed in more than 90% of our footprint and by year-end it will be available everywhere.
Based on the early, positive customer results, and the attractive returns of X1, you will see us accelerate the pace of deployment to customers and maintain the fast pace of innovation as we deliver X2 and integrate even more apps and new features.
NBC Universal also delivered solid results in every one of its business segments, with healthy growth in revenue, and when you adjust out for the Olympics last year, this is the fourth quarter in a row of double digit cash flow growth.
So far, we're off to a great start with NBC early season leadership in broadcast television. For the first five weeks, including and excluding sports, NBC has grown in ratings, and is the number one broadcast network. "The Voice," "Sunday Night Football," and now "The Blacklist" are all helping to power this improvement. Our film studio has enjoyed tremendous success from "Fast 6" and "Despicable Me 2," and we've had steady growth in all of our cable networks and the theme parks as well.
Even more impressive is that these businesses have grown cash flow by more than 50% since we announced our acquisition in 2009, while making significant investments for the future. I could not be more pleased with the progress and see lots of growth ahead.
We're also excited about the winter Olympics, and expect that this will, once again, help support all of the company's momentum, as it did in London. And all parts of Comcast NBC Universal will be behind the Sochi Olympics, and then just a few months later, we'll do it again with the opening of the much-anticipated Harry Potter 2 in Orlando.
We're constantly looking for new and varied ways to innovate. One recent example is our announcement with Twitter, which combines our technology platform and our content. We will debut in November a new feature called See It that in effect creates an online remote control. We believe this new feature may help drive Twitter users to live TV, and also give NBC Universal another way to add to our broad array of programming assets with its advertisers.
So as you can see, we're executing really well on so many different businesses, and with this strong quarter and first nine months of the year, we are really optimistic about the future. Let me now pass to Michael to cover the third quarter results in detail.
Michael Angelakis
Good morning, and thank you, Brian. Let me begin by briefly reviewing our third quarter consolidated financial results, starting on slide four. Overall, we are very pleased with our third quarter performance, which once again demonstrates consistent execution, profitable growth, and the fundamental strength of our businesses.
Excluding the impact of the London Olympics, which generated $1.2 billion of revenue in the third quarter of 2012, consolidated revenue for the quarter increased 5.2% to $16.2 billion. On a reported basis, third quarter consolidated revenue decreased 2.4%.
From an operating cash flow perspective, again excluding the impact of the Olympics last year, and costs during the quarter associated with the termination of a pension plan, consolidated operating cash flow increased 10.5% to $5.4 billion. This performance reflects strong organic growth in both our cable communications and NBC Universal businesses. On a regular basis, operating cash flow increased 6.4%.
Free cash flow for the third quarter increased 30% to $2 billion and free cash flow per share increased 32.1% to $0.74 per share in the quarter. This growth was primarily driven by increases in our consolidated operating cash flow, some benefits in working capital related to the performance of our film slate, as well as favorable comparisons to production spending and rights for last year's Olympics. These improvements in free cash flow were partially offset by higher capital expenditures and cash taxes.
Earnings per share of $0.65 for the third quarter increased 41.3%, excluding gains reported in last year's third quarter, related to SpectrumCo's sale of wireless spectrum licenses and NBC Universal's sale of its interest in the A&E networks.
In addition, our third quarter 2013 earnings per share of $0.65 reflects a nonrecurring $0.11 gain related to the sale of our investment in Clearwire that was fully offset by other investment losses and the pension termination costs I just mentioned. Table 4 in our press release provides more detail.
These are strong results for the company, and now let's review the results of our business units in more detail, starting with cable communications on slide five. We are pleased with our third quarter performance of healthy financial and customer growth in our cable communications business. In the third quarter, cable revenue increased 5.2% to $10.5 billion, reflecting solid growth in each of our residential businesses and continued strength in businesses services, partially offset by lower advertising revenue.
Cable advertising revenue decreased 10.8% during the third quarter, reflecting lower political revenue and one less week of advertising included in this quarter. Excluding political and normalizing for the calendar, our core cable advertising revenue increased 3% during the third quarter. As a reminder, we generated $132 million of political ad revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012. This will make comparisons a bit more challenging next quarter.
Our cable business continues to execute well and, excluding advertising, has delivered consistent financial results, as cable revenue increased 6.2%, which is consistent with the growth rate in each of our last six quarters as we carefully balance financial and customer growth. We are focused on driving sustainable, profitable growth and our total revenue per video customer reached $161 per month, a 6.9% increase.
This revenue growth reflects rate adjustments, growth in our customer base, an increase in the number of customers receiving higher levels of our service, and an increasing number of customers taking multiple products. We are clearly competing better, with improved products, with a focus on customer retention, and our triple play strategy.
At the end of the third quarter, 78% of our video customers took at least two products and 43% took all three services, a 400 basis point improvement over last year. We continue to experience strength in our customer metrics as well. Combined video, high-speed internet, and voice customers increased by 337,000, a 14.9% increase in net customer additions, compared to the third quarter of 2012, driven by strong high-speed internet and voice net additions, partially offset by video customer losses.
In the third quarter, we lost 129,000 video customers, which is comparable to the 117,000 of losses in last year's third quarter, despite a more competitive market with the telcos' expansion of an additional 1.5 million overbuilt homes in our footprint during this year.
As we review the individual service categories, we reported healthy video revenue growth rate of 2.9%, driven by the impact of rate increases and an increasing number of customers taking advanced services. In the third quarter, we added 70,000 advanced service customers, and now have 12.1 million high-def and/or DVR customers, equal to 56% of our video customers.
High-speed internet was again the largest contributor to cable revenue growth, with revenue increasing 7.9%, driven by continued growth in our customer base, as we added 297,000 new high-speed internet customers, an improvement over last year and increasing our penetration to 38% of homes past.
Also contributing to this growth was the increased number of customers receiving our higher-speed services. At the end of the quarter, 34% of our residential high-speed customers take a higher-speed tier above our primary service. We continue to invest in our network to improve and differentiate our high-speed internet service, and during the third quarter, we increased speeds for our fastest tier to 505 Mbps from 305 Mbps in some of our markets.
With regard to our voice service, revenue increased 2.6% for the quarter, which was driven by growth in our customer base, as we continue to focus on the value of the triple play. In the third quarter, we added 169,000 new voice customers, a 38% increase over last year, as we successfully converted single and double play customers to triple play and acquired new triple play customer relationships. At the end of the third quarter, our voice penetration was 20% of homes past.
Moving from our consumer to our commercial businesses, revenue increased 26.4% to $836 million for the quarter. We continue to experience real momentum in business services as we offer a full suite of competitive products and are focused on execution. With only about 10% to 15% market penetration, we continue to be excited about the growth and profit opportunity in our business services segment.
Please move to slide six. Third quarter cable communications operating cash flow increased 6.2% to $4.2 billion, representing a margin of 40.5%, a 40 basis point improvement compared to the third quarter of 2012. This is excellent performance, as it also absorbs the impact from the loss of high margin advertising revenue during the quarter.
In the third quarter, total expenses in cable increased 4.5%, primarily reflecting higher program expenses. Program expenses increased 9.2% in the third quarter, reflecting higher rates and step ups related to certain agreements, increasing retransmission consent fees, and our expanding content lineup on multiple platforms. This is partially offset by the timing of certain network launches.
We are pleased with the management of these costs year to date, and while we expect the fourth quarter program expense growth to accelerate, we expect our full year program expenses to increase by high single-digit rates, lower than the 10% we had previously forecast. Excluding these programming costs, cable expenses increased 2%, reflecting higher customer service expenses as we roll out X1 and wireless gateways across our footprint, as well as costs related to the expansion of business services and XFINITY Home.
We remain very focused on expense management and further efficiency gains. In the third quarter, we reduced our truck rolls by nearly 1 million during the quarter. Customers also continue to elect self installations, which in the third quarter now accounted for 44% of our total installations, compared to 34% in the third quarter of last year. In addition, we now have almost one-third of our customers managing their counts online.
In addition to these efficiency gains, an improving product mix, reflecting an increasing amount of operating cash flow coming from our high-speed internet, business services, and voice services continues to contribute to stability in our cable margins. Now let's move on to NBC Universal results, so please refer to slide seven.
Excluding any impact from the Olympics in 2012, NBC Universal's third quarter revenue increased 3.9% and operating cash flow increased 22.4%, with strong results across all business segments. On a reported basis, revenue decreased 14.2% and operating cash flow increased 9.6%.
Now let's take a closer look at the individual segments at NBC Universal. For the third quarter, cable networks generated revenue of $2.2 billion, an increase of 4%, driven by a 5.4% increase in distribution revenue and a 4.6% increase in advertising revenue, as ratings pressure at some of our cable networks was offset by higher pricing.
Cable networks operating cash flow increased 5.4% to $853 million in the third quarter, reflecting improved revenue performance, partially offset by a 3.8% increase in programming and production costs as we continue to invest in programming to enhance our franchises, including our launch of the English Premier League on NBC Sports Network.
In the broadcast television segment, the success of the Olympics, the early start of the fall season, and higher political advertising last year drove some difficult comparisons. And as a result, revenue decreased 41% to $1.6 billion in the third quarter. However, excluding the Olympics, broadcast revenue increased 2.6%, reflecting higher retransmission consent fees and a 2.6% increase in advertising, reflecting lower political advertising revenue at our own stations and lower prime time ratings as last year benefited from the early start of our fall schedule.
Recall in 2012 we premiered our fall primetime shows earlier than normal, immediately after the Olympics. Excluding the Olympics, broadcast operating cash flow increased [$66] million to [$34] million in the third quarter, reflecting higher revenue and slightly lower programming and production costs.
Moving on to film entertainment, our third quarter revenue increased 3.3% to $1.4 billion, and operating cash flow increased $117 million to $189 million, driven by higher theatrical revenue from the strong box office performance of "Despicable Me 2" partially offset by lower home entertainment revenue due to fewer titles released on DVDs compared to last year's third quarter.
Switching to our theme park segment, we had a strong quarter as revenue increased 7.9% to $661 million, and operating cash flow increased 8.6% to $343 million. This is the largest quarterly operating cash flow in the history of the theme parks, and was driven by increased per capita spending at both our Orlando and Hollywood theme parks and higher attendance at Orlando, fueled by the successful opening of the new Transformers attraction.
Let's move to slide eight to review our consolidated and segment capital expenditures. Consistent with our plan, in the third quarter, consolidated capital expenditures increased 9.1% to $1.7 billion, compared to $1.6 billion in the third quarter of 2012. And year to date, capital expenditures have increased 13.6% to $4.6 billion, reflecting increased investment at both cable and NBC Universal.
At cable communications, third quarter capital expenditures increased $68 million, or 5%, to $1.4 billion, equal to 13.6% of cable revenue versus 13.7% in the third quarter of 2012. The increase primarily reflects higher spending on CPE such as advanced digital boxes including X1 and wireless gateways, as well as the expansion of new services that will generate attractive returns such as business services and XFINITY Home.
Year to date, cable communications capital expenditures have increased 6.3% to $3.8 billion, representing 12.1% of cable revenue. We continue to expect that for the full year of 2013, cable capital expenditures will increase by approximately 10% compared to 2012.
At NBC Universal, capital expenditures for the third quarter of 2013 increased $75 million to $284 million and year to date have increased $331 million to $807 million. This higher capex is primarily driven by the increased investments in theme parks as we build new attractions such as the expansion of Harry Potter in Orlando, as well as Despicable Me in Hollywood. We continue to expect NBC Universal's full year capital investment plan to total approximately $1.1 billion.
Please refer to slide nine. As I mentioned earlier, we generated consolidated free cash flow of $2 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 30% compared to last year's third quarter. For the first nine months of the year, we generated $7.1 billion in free cash flow, an increase of 15.5% over the first nine months of 2012, and year to date, free cash flow per share has increased 17.9% to $2.64 per share.
We are executing on our 2013 financial plan, and year to date have returned $3 billion of capital to shareholders, including share repurchases totaling $1.5 billion, and dividend payments, also totaling $1.5 billion. Our return of capital plan will be reviewed by management and our board in the next few months. We'll provide an update for 2014 on our earnings call at the end of January.
Let me end by saying that we are very pleased with the operational and financial progress we have made during the first nine months of this year. We believe that our disciplined investments and our focus on execution will continue to generate healthy organic growth and yield positive results.
Now let me turn the call over to Marlene for Q&A.
Brian Roberts
Before we do that, actually, Michael, I just want to jump in here and say thank you to Marlene. This will be her last investor relations call. As many of you know, she's happily moving inside the NBCU family and joining NBC Universal to help lead our Hispanic entertainment and content efforts. Believe it or not, this is Marlene's 68th earnings call, and she's done a fabulous job. And on behalf of all of us, Marlene, thank you.
And also, on a tough note, I wanted to acknowledge yesterday's announcement by [Glenn Grid] about his health. On behalf of all of us at Comcast, the industry, and his many friends, we just want to wish you, Glenn, the best as you battle that tough disease.
Marlene, over to you, and thank you.
Marlene Dooner
Operator, let's open up the call for Q&A please.
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator instructions.] Our first question comes from the line of Jessica Reif Cohen with Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Jessica Reif Cohen - Bank of America
I had two questions, one on cable and one on NBCU. First, on cable, could you talk a little bit more about the X1 impact? You mentioned, Brian, on the positive impact to the customer experience. Could you give us any details on what it's doing to churn and what should we expect in terms of cost, both in marketing and set top boxes, as you look at it over the next year or so. And then I'll follow up with NBC.
Brian Roberts
Let me just quickly start, and then turn it over to Neil. I think we're a few months into this, where we've had significant scale, and we will be working a lot on coming up with really good detail. And our instincts and all our intuition suggests that there's a real positive IRR here on the business. And it's a healthy opportunity, and we're very, very excited. But Neil, why don't you try and go with those numbers that you're comfortable with.
Neil Smit
Earlier in the year, we decided to increase the rollout of X1 from about 50% of our footprint to 100%. We're currently at about 90% deployed in the footprint. We're very pleased with the VOD results. VOD viewing is up about 27% and VOD transactions are up about 20%.
I think the churn, we're seeing a meaningful impact on voluntary churn. And it's still in the early stages, but that's been a good surprise. And about 60% of the people are using apps weekly on the product. So we're seeing a lot of apps usage and [last nine] usage.
We're going to continue to ramp the product aggressively. We're seeing a good upgrade amount on existing customers as well as new customers on the acquisition side. So I'd say we're very pleased overall.
X2 we're going to begin to deploy at the end of this year, and we'll more aggressively market it into the beginning of next year.
Jessica Reif Cohen - Bank of America
Any comment on the cost side on set top boxes or marketing?
Neil Smit
Over time, the cost will come down as we scale the product, and I think the whole home household CPE cost will come down as we deploy slave boxes or pucks that are smaller and less expensive for the additional outlets. So we think it will be a good CPE return as we move forward.
Brian Roberts
And one thing we will do probably in the first quarter, as we have much more detail on how the deployment has gone, we'll provide, similar to what we did with the all-digital project, sort of the business case of how we see the X1 deployment, X2 deployment, and what the advantages are to the company. So we'll probably provide that sometime in the early part of next year.
Jessica Reif Cohen - Bank of America
And then just on the NBCU question, I was just hoping Steve could elaborate. The theme park number was very impressive, and I was just wondering if you could maybe elaborate on the potential over the long term. It seems pretty clear that new attractions drive attendance, and it seems like rooms will increase, per-cap numbers were great. So how might the film plans play into this? Anything you could say on consumer products as well? Just some more color on theme parks.
Steve Burke
We obviously have grown increasingly bullish about the theme park business. When we closed the deal, the theme parks were generating about $400 million in OCF, and this year they'll be about $1 billion. So in three years, those businesses have grown dramatically.
I was just down in Orlando last week and saw the new Harry Potter 2 attraction, which opens next spring. We have a very large hotel complex called the Cabana Bay, which is 1,800 rooms, that opens right before Harry Potter, most of it. And we're making these investments because we really like the business. We think it's synergistic with film.
We're opening a Despicable Me attraction in Hollywood. We already opened one in Orlando. And you'll see us continue to have that back and forth. We're just getting started in consumer products. But I think all of these sort of ancillary businesses we feel are really important, and really can contribute to making this company a very well-rounded media company and our initial experience with the theme park business couldn't have gone better.
Our next question comes from the line of Doug Mitchelson with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Doug Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank
The dreaded capital return question for Michael. Let's try it this way. So, at the beginning of the year, if I remember correctly, you talked about flat free cash flow in 2013 and refreshing the balance sheet was limiting return capital in 2013. Free cash flow tracking reported $700 million better year over year. So first, is there anything so far this year that reverses in Q4? Or is something else happening in Q4 that would disrupt the free cash flow trend that we've seen so far this year?
And second, given the faster pace of free cash flow and healthy EBITDA growth, you could be at or below the top end of the 2x leverage target around year-end. So do you feel the balance sheet refresh is being completed this year?
Michael Angelakis
We're ending this quarter at a roughly 2.2x leverage. So you have to add the preferred stock the way we look at it that's at NBCU Enterprises. We'll probably end the year around that 2.2x number. So we feel very good. When we closed on NBC Universal, that number was about 2.4x. so we've come down a little bit, and we've done it all organically.
With regards to free cash flow, free cash flow has performed exceedingly well this year. We've had some benefits related to working capital. Some of that working capital is within the film and the Olympics side. So I think we feel very good about how free cash flow is going to perform this year. Don't really want to go into next year. We're finalizing our operating plans now for 2014. We'll see how working capital looks in 2014, but it's still a little bit premature.
When we think about return of capital, we are now going through that process. We go through a pretty comprehensive process. We have about $2 billion left on our share authorization, so as we go into the end of this year and the very early part of next year, we'll be sitting down as a management team, and with our board, looking at both our operating and our financial plans, and go through how we think about the buyback and what would be the appropriate financial plan related to the dividend.
So we are a bit ahead of schedule. When we look at 2014 we're going to take a very hard look at working capital that happened this year, particularly around film and on the Olympic side. But, you know, so far the plan is being executed well.
Doug Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank
Would you say the balance sheet refresh is something that could continue to happen over a period of time? In other words, just on a practical basis, if you end at 2.2x, you're going to be well below 2 by the end of next year. So you would think that there's excess capital next year, and it's just a question of how you deploy it?
Michael Angelakis
I really don't want to go into next year yet, to be honest with you. I know that's where you'd love to go, but we're in the middle of finalizing our operating plans. We have a lot of initiatives we want to pursue. We're finalizing our financial plans, which will take the next few months. So I really don't want to go into 2014.
I can say we feel very good about the operating performance of the business, which is really the key part. And as we look at our strength and operating performance, that will flow into how we deal with our financial plan and our balance sheet management. But I would say we are trending a bit better, both on free cash flow and balance sheet management that we might have expected this year.
Our next question comes from Jason Bazinet with Citi. Please go ahead.
Jason Bazinet - Citi
Each year there seems to be an increasing blurring between linear TV as we think about it and the way you all are thinking about internet video. And recently there have been a few press reports about trials you're running with HBO, maybe without a pay TV requirement in the bundle, and also some comments on your Viper initiative.
So I was wondering if you could just talk a little bit about what you hope to accomplish with some of these trials, what you're hoping to see, and then if you could just step back and talk a little bit about some of the longer term investments that you're making and paint a picture for us in terms of where you see the video product going.
Neil Smit
I think first off, the Internet Plus product, which was recently announced, is a targeted offer to customers who are interested primarily in a good internet product, and secondarily in a light video product. It does require video, so it's not HBO without a video offering. It's basically a performance HSD product with a B1 video offering, coupled with Stream Picks and HBO.
We've done these kinds of offers before. We offered Blast Plus and Blast Extra in the past. And they've been successful in targeting segments such as Millennials. I think, as I look at the video landscape, we're seeing windows move around, and we're focused on making sure our customers get a complete offering of products, as well as current season.
We think that VOD is a very powerful platform, and with the C3 window, we disabled fast forward with our programming partners, and C3 being measured now, it provides incremental advertising opportunity as well as ratings. We think that could be a better alternative than DVR. And you're seeing some of that in the news.
We're investing heavily in new innovations such as X1 and X2, and you know, it's very fluid, but we feel like we're leading the approach, and we're working well with our programming partners to come up with new ideas and target new segments.
Our next question comes from Ben Swinburne of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Ben Swinburne - Morgan Stanley
I guess two questions. Michael, I'd love any more color, if you have any, on the programming costs for the year. Curious if it's at all timing related. Maybe a deal didn't come up or didn't get done this year that's pushed it into next year. And anything you'd say about your rights strategy on pulling on demand together and positioning XFINITY as really the premium on-demand experience, about negotiating rights that might have had an impact on that programming cost growth.
And then I'm just curious, for Neil, I think in the prepared remarks there was a comment about the more competitive video footprint. I'm assuming you're talking about U-verse. Are you guys doing anything differently in the new U-verse footprint than the rest of the company, maybe more focus on X1 or some of these millennial platforms to try to sort of manage this process? Or is it sort of one of those situations you have to let it play out and then things tend to stabilize?
Michael Angelakis
Why don't I take the first part of the question, and then I'll pass it off to Neil? With regard to programming costs, I've just got to give kudos to the team, who I think have just managed our cost better this year than we've anticipated.
We do expect in the future to have another bump in programming costs, but we're going to end the year modestly below where we thought we would. We'll probably end the year just slightly below 10% growth for the entire year, so our view, the team, is really no structural changes, nothing that's been dramatic to affect that. It's really been, I think, the team just being able to manage costs significantly better. And we really did anticipate a bit of a higher increase in programming costs this year than what the end result will be.
For premium VOD, and some of the other questions, I'm going to pass it off to Neil.
Neil Smit
On VOD rights, we are, as in all our negotiations with programmers, we're getting a very comprehensive VOD rights as well as in and out of home rights, and TV everywhere rights. Interestingly, I recently looked at the information on the XFINITY TV player app, and the viewing has gone from about 2 million hours to over 6 million hours. So it's getting a lot of usage.
And concerning the overbuild situation, it's kind of a tale of two cities. We have a number of markets that are growing video net adds, and then we've got some of the overbuild markets where you see a typical bubble, where there's initial losses, and then we come back and get win backs.
So overall we feel good about the video business, considering the overbuilds. We're in about the same ballpark in terms of losses, and we're aggressively deploying X1 and we think we have a superior product, and we'll continue to market it.
Your next question comes from Phil Cusick with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Phil Cusick - JPMorgan
You've been running a couple of broadband tiering trials that we've seen. I wonder if you can talk about your thoughts there, one how they're going, and two, how you think about monetizing broadband over the next few years.
Neil Smit
We have a number of trials in place in markets. We're testing different types of usage-based pricing offerings. Thus far the consumer response has been neutral to slightly positive. We'll continue to monitor it.
In terms of how we monetize HSD, we've been successful in increasing our market share as well as driving RPU. We've rolled out about 6 million gateway devices, which increased the in-home wifi fees, and that's gone very well, and we think there's going to be more people hanging more devices off of their wifi.
We're deploying wifi as well. Every home we install is a new hot spot, and we think there's opportunity as we grow the wifi business. And then I think there's innovation we can add onto HSD over time, and as you know our XFINITY Home product runs off of the wifi, and that's a good example of something that we can run off of our network.
Phil Cusick - JPMorgan
Speaking of wifi, should we look for a significant acceleration in public wifi rollouts next year?
Neil Smit
I wouldn't call it a significant acceleration, but we will continue to build out our wifi network. We've done so in a number of cities, and we will continue to invest in the wifi side.
Michael Angelakis
Let me add to that. I think you know that as we deploy these wireless gateways, they have multiple SSIDs, so that actually increases the ability to have wifi hotspots. And then as Neil said, we are deploying more capital into wifi in the public areas as well.
Our next question comes from Marci Ryvicker of Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.
Marci Ryvicker - Wells Fargo
Just a question for Neil. Can you talk about the difference in performance between your large and your small markets? And have you ever thought about rationalizing your portfolio, maybe taking a bigger focus on large markets by swapping smaller market clusters with other operators?
Neil Smit
You know, our market performance, there's no significant difference between large and small markets. We get some efficiencies on the plant side out of a large market, because we have bigger head [ends] and can run the markets more efficiently, and you have a denser footprint, so there's less maintenance, for example, on the lines in the network.
But our small markets operate very well. In many cases, there's less competition in the smaller markets, and we've been in these markets for a lot of years, and we know how to run them, and we've got great management teams who run them very effectively. So really, I think in terms of rationalizing the portfolio, we feel good with the assets we have right now, and continue to focus on efficient management of them.
Your next question comes from Craig Moffett from MoffettNathanson. Please go ahead.
Craig Moffett - MoffettNathanson
Two things, if I could. First, let me ask the same question that Marci just asked on the NBC side. Now that you've had the assets for I guess three and a half years now, where are the opportunities for you to fill in and add to the portfolio, and what kinds of assets do you think would make sense to add to the NBC portfolio? And then just a quick question for Neil. There's been a lot of talk about licensing X1. I wonder if you could update that initiative.
Brian Roberts
Starting with NBCU, we've had so much organic growth, and we see so much more organic growth that we haven't spent any time at all thinking about adding to the portfolio. I think if you were going to create the perfect media company, it would look a lot like NBC Universal. We have 15 broadly distributed cable channels, we have broadcast, film, theme parks, Spanish language, English language, and we have broadcast and cable for news, sports, and entertainment. No one else does. And we have plenty of growth ahead of us. So we really are focusing on what we've got and trying to make it better.
Neil Smit
And concerning the licensing of the X1 product, we've had interest expressed by a number of MSOs and we're considering the opportunity. The benefit of scale is that we can invest in products like this and continue to refine them, and I think other operators like the product, and we'll continue to have conversations. We have no immediate plans, but we think it's a great product and we think it would be good to get a larger footprint of X1 from just being able to continue to invest in the product perspective.
Our next question comes from [Kanan Binkat] with Barclays. Please go ahead.
[Kanan Binkat] - Barclays
First is there were some news recently about Netflix being in conversations with the MSOs on coming through the set top box. Just wanted to get your thoughts on all the over the top content potentially at some point sitting in the set top box and coming through that, and how you think about that. And also, on the home gateway front, if I heard correctly, I guess you guys mentioned 6 million home gateways but 350,000 hot spots. Given that you have multiple SSIDs, does the gap between the two start to close any time in the near future?
Neil Smit
Let me take the questions one at a time. On the Netflix side, really there's nothing to report. It's been, frankly, incredible to me the amount of press coverage this has received. Our customers can receive Netflix in a number of ways, so it's not really a high priority for us. We're open to putting apps on our X1 platform. We have, for example, Facebook and Pandora there now. But at this point, we don't really have anything to report on the Netflix front.
Concerning the gateways, yeah, there's going to continue to be, in both SMBs and the home, so in hotspots, that will make our wifi network denser. And as the wifi federation between the different cable companies expands, it provides wifi coverage to our customers, for example, in New York City or Philadelphia or Boston, as the partnership continues to expand wifi hotspots. So we think it's a great consumer benefit, and we're seeing a lot of usage uptick in our wifi in the cities where we've deployed extensively.
Our next question comes from Brian Kraft from Evercore. Please go ahead.
Brian Kraft - Evercore Partners
The standards for using consumer data in the internet advertising world are much lower than they are in the TV world, including these set top box data. Do you have a view on whether these standards will converge over time? And if so, how would you envision this actually playing out?
Neil Smit
We do have set top box data from a number of markets, and whether or not it will converge, I think is a regulatory question that I wouldn't offer any conjecture on. I think that this information can be valuable to us from both a marketing and programming perspective, but we'll obviously be very sensitive to the privacy issues that are inherent.
Steve Burke
I think on the content side there is some upside in the not too distant future that could be foreseen related to interactive advertising. Neil is rolling out a technology called Digital Ad Insertion into VOD Streams. And what we're also finding is when you eliminate commercial skipping in VOD, you make it very convenient for consumers to get large amounts of programming, but also you make it very good for a programmer to get C3 ratings. And we have a lot of our shows now that are getting a noticeable jump because of that, in effect, conversion from DVR viewing to VOD viewing. So I think the technology side of the business is going to make it better for a content owner as companies like Comcast roll out more of this technology.
Brian Roberts
One last point that I think draws it all together, it may not be totally about set top box data, but about our experience now as one company, by having more on demand consumer behavior, we're beginning to see a lot of statistics where people know they can get a show, so they don't need to record it. That's in the interest of the programming side of the company, and that is in the interest of cable, because of our robust two-way platform, versus other platforms.
And then if you have X1 as the way to be able to navigate and know what's on demand, it all comes together. And eventually, you get to advanced advertising or working on joint initiatives between the two parts of the company on that as well. So a lot of good things around that area that are happening.
Our next question comes from Amy Yong with Macquarie. Please go ahead.
Amy Yong - Macquarie
I have two questions. First, on housing, are you seeing any pockets of strength in your footprint? And then the second is, could you just elaborate on your partnership with Twitter, both from the NBC and cable angle. Should we think that it's going to help drive ratings at NBC and help drive premium services on the cable side? And then how do we think about this as it gets offered to other MVPDs like DirecTV?
Michael Angelakis
I'll take the housing side. The best way to describe housing is sort of slow and steady growth. We have a lot of different data points internally, whether it's vacancy rates or housing starts, but one thing we do utilize a lot is sort of what is our construction spend.
And as we look at '13 and sort of where we think '13 will end up, construction spend is still a fraction of what it was at its peak. And it's up actually a little bit from 2012, but we're not seeing meaningful housing growth or meaningful tailwinds related to housing at this point.
So it's kind of slow and steady growth. I don't think the impact to us has been meaningful. As we look at '14, I think we'll see a little bit more in construction spend in '14 than we did in '13, which is up from '12. So the trend is going in the right direction right now, but it's certainly not meaningful to us.
Brian Roberts
Let me take a shot at Twitter. I think our mandate is to try to be innovative and lean forward and try to find new ways to experiment. And in the case of Twitter, and in others, we want to promote live television. That's really good for NBC Universal. We're going to have more advertising inventory that we can monetize. At the same time, can you access live content through other means than just starting with our guide?
And all these things are things we want to try. Whether that will really move ratings, I don't know. We're going to try to do a lot of initiatives, but I think it's important that we try to lead, and that we try to experiment and innovate, and this is a great example of that, and hopefully it will be really successful.
Our final question comes from Vijay Jayant from ISI Group. Please go ahead.
Vijay Jayant - ISI Group
Verizon mentioned that they were terminating their long term partnership with cable, broadly. Can you just talk about is your current wifi buildout strategy sufficient? Or do you think you probably need an MVNO strategy longer term? And then second, just a topic that's gotten a lot more press is ARIO, and you guys are on both sides of the equation there. I just want to get your thoughts on that.
Neil Smit
I'll answer the Verizon question, then turn it over to Steve for the ARIO question. I think the Verizon partnership, what we announced was really about the JV structure for R&D. And what we found was that we didn't need a formal structure to innovate and develop technology. We developed, for example, an app called Test Drive where people in the Verizon Wireless stores can see preloaded video, and it drives data usage from them and it drives subs for us, who experience the XFINITY app on Verizon Wireless devices.
In terms of the wifi buildout, we don't right now have any plans to launch MVNO relationship. We continue to build out wifi and as I said previously, we're seeing good usage on our wifi network, and it's an added value to our customers on the data side.
Steve Burke
In terms of ARIO, we and others are suing ARIO, so obviously we think what they're doing is unlawful. I also think that any content company that has multiple assets is going to look at that technology and someone circumventing the need to pay for retransmission consent in a negative way. So we'll see what happens with the lawsuit, but we think it's a clear violation of the law.
Marlene Dooner
Thank you Vijay, and thank you all for joining us this morning.
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