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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 ...
Xfinity Voice (formerly Comcast Digital Voice) is a Voice Over IP cable telephony service that was launched in 2005 in some markets, [75] and to all of Comcast's markets in 2006. Comcast's older service, Comcast Digital Phone, continued to offer service for a brief period, until Comcast shut it down around in late 2007. [ 76 ]
Brian L. Roberts. Comcast is described as a family business. [19] Brian L. Roberts, its chairman and CEO, is the son of founder Ralph J. Roberts (1920–2015). Roberts owns or controls about 1% of all Comcast shares but all of the Class B supervoting shares, giving him an "undilutable 33% voting power over the company". [20]
Comcast shares were up more than 2% in after-hours trading. The spinoff will take roughly a year as the company figures out whether licensing agreements need to be put in place and whether MSNBC ...
Read more:Comcast to spin off MSNBC, CNBC and other cable channels. Nothing changes right away, however. The spinoff, valued at $7 billion, isn't expected to be completed for about a year. And NBC ...
Through this acquisition, Comcast gained ownership of the National Broadcasting Company , the film studio Universal Pictures, cable channels such as Syfy, CNBC and MSNBC, and Universal Parks & Resorts, among other assets owned by NBC Universal. It has also integrated its own cable channels – including E! and Golf Channel – into NBC Universal.
Comcast chair and CEO Brian Roberts will own the same economic and voting interests in the new company, dubbed "SpinCo," as he has in Comcast, according to an internal memo sent to NBCUniversal ...
NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. [5]