https://brandtree.org/company/comcastAcquisitions, divestitures and ownership changes involving Comcast.https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-sky-2018https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-sky-2018Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMTComcast 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.https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-dreamworks-2016https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-dreamworks-2016Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMTComcast acquired DreamWorks Animation for about $3.8 billion, adding Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon to Universal. The studio had struggled as a standalone public company because a single failed film could ruin a year.https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-nbcuniversal-2011https://brandtree.org/deal/comcast-acquires-nbcuniversal-2011Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTComcast took majority control of NBCUniversal from General Electric in a transaction valuing the business at about $30 billion, contributing cable channels and $13.75 billion in cash. It turned the largest American cable distributor into a studio owner, and regulators imposed conditions on how it treated rival programmers.