NBC Universal chief Burke resigns as Comcast COO

NBC Universal's new chief executive, Steve Burke, has resigned as Comcast Corp's chief operating officer but will remain an executive vice president of the cable company, according to a regulatory filing on Jan 31. Burke became NBCU CEO after Comcast's takeover of the company closed on Jan 28. It was announced last year that the Comcast No. 2 executive would take on the NBCU role while he kept his Comcast COO title. But Burke has since decided to relinquish the role of running operations of the largest US cable company, which has more than 23 million subscribers, to focus on NBCU