List of assets owned by Comcast explained
Here is a list of assets owned by American global telecommunications conglomerate Comcast.
Comcast Holdings Corporation
Former assets
Divested
- A&E Networks (15.8%, with The Walt Disney Company and Hearst)
- A&E
- Crime & Investigation Network
- FYI (formerly The Biography Channel)
- The History Network
- Lifetime
- LMN (formerly Lifetime Movie Network)
- LRW (formerly Lifetime Real Women)
- Bad Wolf Ltd (minority stake, with Access Entertainment and HBO), sold to Sony Pictures Television[37] [38]
- 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, now owned by Amazon.
- Comcast SportsNet Houston
- 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 Warner Bros. Discovery) in 2003.
- TV One: 50% joint venture with Radio One, which 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.[39]
- AwesomenessTV – sold to Paramount Global.
- Craftsy (formerly Bluprint): now owned by TN Marketing
- Euronews (25%) - Comcast sold its stake to other stakeholders
- NBC Sports Gold - Shut down; content moved to Peacock
- NBC Sports Radio
- NBC Sports Washington
- SBS CNBC: sold to SBS Media Holdings in 2021
- ShopNBC
- Sundance Channel
- TV One (50% joint venture with Radio One)
- Hulu (33.3%)[40] [41] [42]
Dormant or shuttered
Xfinity
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
- Bullwinkle Studios (50%, joint venture with Jay Ward Productions): Dissolved February 2022 following transfer of Jay Ward Productions library to WildBrain; NBCUniversal retains rights to all Bullwinkle Studios-era co-productions.
- Chiller
- Chocolate Media
- 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
- Comcast Sports Southwest
- Esquire Network
- DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment - folded into Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- DailyCandy
- iVillage
- Seeso
- Shift
- Chapman Entertainment: acquired by DreamWorks Animation in 2013
- FilmDistrict: folded into Focus Features in 2014
- Focus World
- Fearnet (with Lions Gate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment)
- G4 (88% with Dish Network): first incarnation was closed down on December 31, 2014; meanwhile, second incarnation of the channel which operated by sister company Comcast Spectacor was closed down on November 18, 2022.
- MountainWest Sports Network (controlling stake)
- NBC Sports Northwest
- NBC Weather Plus
- NBCSN
- NewSport
- Olympic Channel
- Peacock Productions[43]
- SportsChannel
- Station Venture Holdings (79.62% with LIN Media)
- Style Network (Australia)
- Television Without Pity: ceased its operations on May 31, 2014; relaunched under Tribune Media in 2016 later closed in 2017
- Trio
- Universal Sports Network (8% with InterMedia Partners)
- MCA TV
- Gramercy Pictures
- Universal Eight
- Universal TV (British and Irish TV channel)
- Universal Channel (Asia)
- USA Home Entertainment
- 13th Street Australia
- Diva TV
- Diva (Asia)
- E! (Asia)
- KidsCo (51% with Corus Entertainment)
- Hallmark Channel International
- 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 Channel ceased operations on February 28, 2021.
- Premium Movie Partnership (with Sony Pictures Entertainment, CBS Corporation, News Corporation and Liberty Global)
- Steel
- TV1 General Entertainment Partnership (with Sony Pictures Television and CBS Studios International)
- Wet 'n Wild Orlando: closed on December 31, 2016 and replaced by Volcano Bay.
Sky
See also
References
External links
Notes and References
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- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jason-blum-blumhouse-and-james-wan-atomic-monster-1235777913/ Jason Blum's Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster Close Merger Deal
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- News: NBC/Golf Channel Acquires Digital Video Instruction Company Revolution Golf. August 7, 2017.
- Web site: NBC Sports and Rory McIlroy launch a streaming service for golf nuts. Engadget. en. 2019-02-06.
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- Web site: Golf Channel isn't shorting Long Drive. Sports Business Journal. en. April 25, 2018.
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- Web site: NBC News Revives MSNBC Films to Bolster Documentary Ambitions. variety.com. Brian Steinberg. September 1, 2020. September 4, 2020.
- News: Katz . A.J. . NBC News Promotes a Correspondent From Its Video and Feed Service . July 3, 2019 . TV Newser . Adweek, LLC . April 24, 2019.
- News: Spangler . Todd . NBC News Hires Alison Morris From Fox's NYC Station as Full-Time Anchor for Streaming Service . July 3, 2019 . Variety . July 1, 2019 . en.
- News: Atkinson . Claire . NBC News unveils 'Signal,' its streaming network for cable-cutters . July 3, 2019 . NBC News . October 24, 2019 . en.
- Web site: Theme Parks at Universal Orlando Resort. Universal Orlando. August 21, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100907030201/http://www.universalorlando.com/OverviewPages/TP/themeparks.aspx. September 7, 2010. dead.
- Web site: Universal Studios Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood. Universal Studios Hollywood. August 21, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100820062720/http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/. August 20, 2010. live.
- Web site: Comcast buys majority stake in Universal Studios Japan for $1.5 billion. September 28, 2015. Reuters. July 25, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234332/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usj-comcast-m-a/comcast-says-to-buy-51-percent-of-universal-studios-japan-for-1-5-billion-idUSKCN0RS0CM20150928. July 30, 2018. live.
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- Web site: 23 November 2021 . NBCUniversal International Studios rebrands to Align with USG . 2022-12-28 . Variety . en.
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- Web site: Sky Italia's Vision Distribution to Launch Film Sales Company at Berlin's EFM. Variety. Nick Vivarelli. 20 January 2020. 30 September 2020.
- Web site: Sky Studios - Bringing unique stories to screen from the very best talent in Europe. 2020-07-07. www.skygroup.sky. en-gb.
- Web site: Middleton. Richard. 2020-07-07. Sky acquires remaining 30% in 'Bake Off' creator Love Productions. 2020-07-07. TBI Vision. en-US.
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- Web site: Disney Assumes Full Control of Hulu in Deal With Comcast. Spangler. Todd. 2019-05-14. Variety. en. 2019-05-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20190514151620/https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-full-control-hulu-comcast-deal-1203214338/. May 14, 2019. live.
- News: Steinberg . Brian . NBC News Will Shut Down Peacock Productions . January 10, 2020 . Variety . January 10, 2020 . en.
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