# Comcast - NBCUniversal Acquisition [[Comcast]] acquired control of [[NBCUniversal]] in two stages — a 51% stake bought from General Electric in 2011, and the remaining 49% bought out in 2013 — in a transaction valued at roughly $39 billion in total. The deal united the country's largest cable distributor with a major content company (NBC, Universal Pictures, [[MSNBC]], CNBC, Telemundo, theme parks), a landmark in vertical [[Media Consolidation]] that the Obama DOJ/FCC approved with behavioral conditions. Control passed fully to [[Brian Roberts]]'s Comcast, which in 2026 spun the declining cable networks (including [[MSNBC]], rebranded "MS Now") off into [[Versant]] while keeping [[NBC News]], NBC, and Peacock. See: [[Comcast and NBCUniversal Timeline]], [[Media Consolidation]]