List of assets owned by Comcast

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Here is a list of assets owned by American global telecommunications conglomerate Comcast.

Comcast Corporation[]

NBCUniversal[]

Main article: List of assets owned by NBCUniversal

Former assets[]

Divested[]

  • A&E Networks (15.8%, with The Walt Disney Company and Hearst)
  • MGM Holdings (20%, with Sony Corporation of America, Providence Equity Partners, TPG Capital, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group), split in 2010 due to the emergence from bankruptcy.
  • QVC: Comcast sold its majority stake to Liberty Media in 2003
  • Speed Channel: joint venture with Cox Communications and Fox Entertainment Group; Fox acquired Comcast and Cox's stakes in 2001
  • Time Warner Entertainment (26%, with Time Warner Inc.): Comcast sold its 26% stake to Time Warner Inc. (now WarnerMedia) in 2003.
  • TV One: 50% joint venture with Radio One, who acquired Comcast's stake in 2015
  • The Weather Company – with private equity firms Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group: Originally a parent company of The Weather Channel. In January 2016, it was acquired by IBM.
  • The Weather Channel – with private equity firms Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group: sold to Entertainment Studios.
  • Pearl Studio (formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks) (45%, with China Media Capital, Shanghai Media Group and Shanghai Alliance Investment) NBCUniversal sold its stake in the studio in 2018 to CMC for restructuring and possibly problems with Chinese antitrust investigation.[7]
  • AwesomenessTV – sold to ViacomCBS.

Dormant or shuttered[]

Xfinity[]

  • Adelphia Communications Corporation: assets acquired by Time Warner Cable and Comcast in 2006
  • Comcast Entertainment Television (CET)
  • Comcast Television 2 (Michigan)
  • Commuter Cable
  • ExerciseTV (with Time Warner Cable, New Balance, and Jake Steinfeld)
  • Group W Cable
  • Susquehanna Communications
  • TVWorks (67% with Cox Communications)
  • Xfinity 3D
  • Patriot Media
  • MOJO HD (with Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable)

NBCUniversal[]

  • Anime Selects
  • AZN Television: TV channel focused on Asian and Asian-American culture; formerly known as International Channel from its foundation in 1996 to 2005; shut down in 2008
  • Chiller
  • Cloo
  • Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (with Charter Communications), shut down due to the loss of SEC rights to ESPN's SEC Network
  • The Comcast Network
  • DailyCandy
  • Fearnet (with Lions Gate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment)
  • G4 Media (88% with Dish Network)
  • Gramercy Pictures
  • Qubo (with Ion Media Networks, Scholastic Entertainment, Classic Media and Corus Entertainment): A children's programming block launched on September 9, 2006. NBC and Telemundo discontinued their Qubo blocks in 2012 after Comcast acquired NBCUniversal. Following the acquisition of Ion Media by the E. W. Scripps Company on January 7, 2021, the Qubo brand name ceased to exist on February 28, 2021.

Sky[]

See also[]

  • Lists of corporate assets
  • List of communities serviced by Comcast

References[]

  1. ^ "Stories: Flyers Launch in House Content Shop on the Fly Productions | Comcast Spectacor".
  2. ^ "SK Telecom, Comcast form e-sports venture". October 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor Announce Global Esports Joint Venture". corporate.comcast.com. February 25, 2019.
  4. ^ "Sky Corporate | Articles". Sky. Retrieved 2019-03-18.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Sky Studios - Bringing unique stories to screen from the very best talent in Europe". www.skygroup.sky. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  6. ^ Middleton, Richard (2020-07-07). "Sky acquires remaining 30% in 'Bake Off' creator Love Productions". TBI Vision. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  7. ^ Patrick Frater (March 15, 2017). "Oriental DreamWorks Heads for Restructuring, Sale". Variety. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  8. ^ White, Peter (2019-04-05). "Sky's International Distribution Unit Sky Vision To Be Absorbed Into NBCU Sales Arm Following Sale". Deadline. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  9. ^ "NBCUniversal Distribution sets date for Sky Vision takeover". TBI Vision. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
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