Report: Comcast Buying NBC for $35 Billion. Comcast: “Inaccurate”

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3 points·ashishk··6 comments

I'm getting really tired of anything related to Comcast. Actually, I'm getting tired of just Comcast in general.

I don't see any benefit of Comcast owning another network. They've already ruined half of my hockey season as it is!

It better be inaccurate. Even if Comcast wanted to buy NBC (why would they?), $35 billion is far too much for the least popular of the four major networks. CBS only has a market cap of $8B right now.

EDIT: Like others are saying, it's for all of NBC Universal. Makes more sense since Viacom + CBS = $25B in market cap.

This article states it's all of NBC Universal which I would guess includes all their cable assets too. That's Weather Channel, History, Scifi, Bravo, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, etc. Also Universal Studios. That's a huge chunk of the entertainment industry for one company to control -- especially when they are also providing access to competing content. That would give Comcast 50% of Hulu too.

Ah my bad. That makes more sense then. Viacom and CBS combined are over $25B in value and should be closer in real estate size with all of NBC Universal.

Is it definitely 50% of Hulu? I thought Disney came in and took a chunk of Hulu too.

From what I can tell it's actually closer to 25% each for NBC, Disney, and FOX and the rest is spread among the investors and employees.

The rumor was for NBC Universal, which includes more than just a network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Universal

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