In a move that could portend more changes in the declining business of traditional television, Comcast, the parent company of NBC, announced plans Wednesday morning to break off several of its cable ...

Comcast is carving off most of its cable channels. Will its new spinoff be a hunter or prey? The media giant last week put an upbeat spin on its move to shed what Wall Street sees as an albatross — ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comcast Corp plans to start selling movies for download and streaming through the cable operator's set-top boxes and its Xfinity TV website, according to people with knowledge ...

When Comcast swallowed NBC and Universal Studios 14 years ago, the sibling cable channels USA Network, Bravo and CNBC were considered diamonds in the rough. USA Network had gained traction with its ...

Note: This story, originally published Nov. 5, was updated on Nov. 20 to reflect Comcast’s formal plans to spin off its cable networks. Comcast is cutting the cord on its cable network portfolio – a ...

Seeing Comcast's move to spin off cable as just a name change and a sign the company wants out of cable networks is wrong. A history of smart moves by Comcast vs. bad ones favors the odds for a very ...

Comcast will spin off many of its cable television networks that were once at the heart of the entertainment giant, with people increasingly swapping out their cable TV subscriptions for streaming ...

Lots of uncertainty surrounds Comcast's spinoff of its NBCUniversal cable portfolio. Comcast may be proceeding with a transaction as a signal to the rest of the media industry that consolidation is ...

Comcast is cutting the cord on its declining cable network portfolio – including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and Golf Channel – and will spin off the assets into a standalone, publicly traded ...