Side-by-side comparisons of Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal:
Headquarters:
Comcast: Philadelphia
NBC Universal: New York
Chief executive:
Comcast: Brian Roberts
NBC Universal: Steve Burke (incoming), Jeffrey Zucker (outgoing)
Employees:
Comcast: 100,000
NBC Universal: 15,000
Market value:
Comcast: $64 billion
NBC Universal: about $30 billion, based on the terms of deal
Revenue in 2009:
Comcast: $35.8 billion
NBC Universal: $15.4 billion
Operating income in 2009:
Comcast: $7.2 billion
NBC Universal: $2.3 billion
Reach:
Comcast: 23.5 million cable TV subscribers, about a quarter of U.S. subscription-TV customers; its most distributed cable network, E! Entertainment Television, reaches 96 million homes.
NBC Universal: 113 million homes for main network, about 98 percent of U.S. television households.
Cable networks owned:
Comcast: E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, Style, iN DEMAND (51 percent owned), TV One (33 percent), PBS KIDS Sprout (40 percent), FEARnet (33 percent), The mtn. (50 percent), Exercise TV (65 percent), 11 regional sports networks (varying percentages)
NBC Universal: USA Network, Bravo, Syfy, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, mun2, A&E Television Network (16 percent stake), The Weather Channel (25 percent), Chiller, Sleuth
Other assets:
Comcast: Comcast-Spectacor (majority interest; owns the Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers and two arenas), Plaxo, Clearwire Corp. (8.5 percent stake), DailyCandy, Fandango, Fancast
NBC Universal: NBC network, 10 NBC stations, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando Resort (50 percent), Hulu (more than 25 percent), Telemundo network, 16 Telemundo stations, iVillage.
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Sources: Comcast Corp., NBC Universal, SNL Kagan, The Nielsen Co., Citi Investment Research & Analysis.
