List of assets owned by Comcast
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Here is a list of assets owned by American global telecommunications conglomerate Comcast.
Comcast Holdings Corporation[edit]
- Xfinity (Comcast Cable Communications, LLC)
- Comcast Business
- Comcast Interactive Media
- StreamSage
- Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC (formerly AT&T Broadband Corporation)
- Comcast MO Group, LLC (formerly Media One or Bell West)
- Comcast MO of Delaware, LLC
- CN900 (Michigan)
- CN81 (Indiana)
- Comcast Wholesale
- Xfinity Mobile
- Effectv
- Xfinity Streampix
- Xumo
- Comcast Spectacor operating sports and entertainment venues
- Spectra
- ComcastTIX
- Maine Mariners (ECHL)
- Paciolan
- Philadelphia Flyers
- Philadelphia Wings
- Philadelphia Fusion (CS Philadelphia OW Team, LLC)
- Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)
- T1 Entertainment & Sports (34% with SK Telecom and Highland Capital)[2][3]
- In Demand Networks (33.3% with Cox Communications and Charter Communications)
- Comcast Spotlight (Advertising)
- Comcast Technology Solutions
- Comcast Ventures (formerly Comcast Interactive Capital)
- Headend in the Sky (HITS)
- FreeWheel
- Watchwith
- iMedia Brands Inc. (12.5%)
- Hitz
- Leisure Arts
- Midco (49%)
- Music Choice LLC (Minority stake with Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Microsoft, Arris International and Sony Corporation of America)
NBCUniversal[edit]
Sky Group[edit]
- Challenge
- Pick
- Sky Arts
- Sky Atlantic
- Sky Cinema
- Sky Comedy
- Sky Crime
- Sky Documentaries
- Sky Max
- Sky Nature
- Sky News
- Sky News Radio
- Sky News Arabia (50% with Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation)
- Sky Replay
- Sky Showcase
- Sky Sports
- Sky Sports F1
- Sky Sports News
- Sky Sports Racing (Joint venture with Arena Racing Company)
- Sky Box Office
- Sky Sports Box Office
- Sky 3D
- Sky Witness
- A&E Networks UK (A&E Television Networks (UK) Ltd/BSkyB History Ltd)
- Nickelodeon UK Ltd (Paramount Networks UK & Australia (60%)/Sky Group (40%))
- Paramount UK Partnership (Paramount Pictures UK/Sky Group (25%))
- Sky Subscriber Services
- Sky In-Home Services
- Sky Home Communications
- Sports Internet Group
- British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings
- Aura Sports
- Aura Play
- Sky UK
- Now (Sky)
- Sky Broadband
- The Cloud
- DTV Services Ltd (Minority stake with Arqiva, BBC, ITV plc and Channel Four Television Corporation)
- Sky Go
- Freesat from Sky
- Sky Ireland
- Sky Deutschland
- Sky Italia
- Sky Q
- Amstrad
- Sky Studios[4]
- Jupiter Entertainment
- Skybound Stories (Joint venture with Skybound Entertainment)
- Ginx TV Ltd (Joint venture with ITV plc)
- Love Productions[5]
- Transistor Films
- Znak & Co.
Former assets[edit]
Divested[edit]
- A&E Networks (15.8%, with The Walt Disney Company and Hearst)
- Bad Wolf Ltd (minority stake, with Access Entertainment and HBO), sold to Sony Pictures Television[6][7]
- 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.
- 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.[8]
- AwesomenessTV – sold to Paramount Global.
Dormant or shuttered[edit]
Xfinity[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 (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.
- 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 Channel ceased operations on February 28, 2021.
Sky[edit]
- Sky Vision: Folded into NBCUniversal Global Distribution[9][10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Stories: Flyers Launch in House Content Shop on the Fly Productions | Comcast Spectacor".
- ^ "SK Telecom, Comcast form e-sports venture". October 11, 2019.
- ^ "SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor Announce Global Esports Joint Venture". corporate.comcast.com. February 25, 2019.
- ^ "Sky Studios - Bringing unique stories to screen from the very best talent in Europe". www.skygroup.sky. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ^ Middleton, Richard (2020-07-07). "Sky acquires remaining 30% in 'Bake Off' creator Love Productions". TBI Vision. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ^ Ramachandran, Naman (2021-12-01). "Sony Confirms Acquisition of 'His Dark Materials' Producer Bad Wolf, Buys Out Sky/HBO Minority Stake". Variety. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ^ "Sky Corporate | Articles". Sky. Retrieved 2019-03-18.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Patrick Frater (March 15, 2017). "Oriental DreamWorks Heads for Restructuring, Sale". Variety. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NBCUniversal Distribution sets date for Sky Vision takeover". TBI Vision. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-10-01.