Sky is owned by Comcast (the United States, NASDAQ: CMCSA), which acquired the brand on 9 October 2018 for £30 billion.[1][2] Sky was founded in 1989 in London and was independent until 2018.
Evidence: Comcast Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-03, SEC EDGAR, 3 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Sky is the largest pay television operator in Britain, Ireland, Germany and Italy, and its money transformed English football when it bought Premier League rights in 1992. Comcast won it in a 2018 auction against Fox, paying about £30 billion.
Sentences about Sky from Comcast's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Also includes the operations of our Sky-branded entertainment television networks in the United Kingdom and Italy.
Our international video packages also include Sky-branded entertainment television networks that offer entertainment, premium movie and free-to-air programming, as well as Sky Sports networks which are part of our Media segment.
Our video services are provided primarily through our X1 platform in the United States over our network, and through our Sky Q platform in the United Kingdom and Italy using a combination of satellite transmission and broadband connections.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Comcast controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in media & entertainment.
The 87 brands in television networks on Brandtree belong to 28 owners. The largest is Sun TV Network, with 7; Comcast has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini TV | Sun TV Network | 🇮🇳 India |
| Global Television | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| BET | Paramount Skydance | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bounce (Scripps network) | Scripps | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cartoon Network | Warner Bros. Discovery | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Canal+ | Canal+ | 🇫🇷 France |
| AMC | AMC Networks | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Astro | Astro | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
Comcast is a publicly listed company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1963. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CMCSA.
Comcast began in 1963 with a small cable system in Mississippi and grew into the largest cable operator in the United States. Its 2011 purchase of NBCUniversal made a distribution company into a studio owner, and Sky added most of European pay television in 2018.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Sky among them.
Comcast won Sky in a rare televised auction ordered by the British Takeover Panel, outbidding Twenty-First Century Fox at about £30 billion. It gave Comcast pay television across Britain, Ireland, Germany and Italy in a single step.
The parent company of Sky is Comcast, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Sky originated in the United Kingdom in 1989, but it is owned today by Comcast, which is headquartered in the United States. So Sky is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Comcast completed its acquisition of Sky on 9 October 2018, after announcing the deal on 22 September 2018. The deal was valued at £30 billion (enterprise value).
Sky was an independent company from its founding in 1989 in London until Comcast acquired it in 2018.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Sky is still owned by Comcast. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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