Overview
- Comcast said Brodsky died Thursday, Nov. 5, at age 93 while in hospice care and surrounded by family, and the company announced a private memorial with a public celebration to be scheduled later.
- Brodsky helped found Comcast in 1963 when he joined Ralph J. Roberts and Daniel Aaron to buy a small cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi, and he was the company’s last living cofounder.
- As Comcast’s longtime chief financial officer he engineered financing innovations, led the company’s 1972 initial public offering, and helped structure the deals that funded major acquisitions and national expansion.
- A long-time civic donor and trustee, Brodsky served nearly three decades with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in October 2026 he and his wife Lois pledged $20 million to create a new learning and engagement center.
- Industry honors such as his 2003 induction into the Cable Television Hall of Fame reflected his role in making cable finance credible to banks and investors, and his death removes a key link to Comcast’s founding era with implications for the company’s institutional memory and local philanthropic work.