COMCAST CORP acquisition history.

Comcast and Time Warner reached definitive agreements to acquire substantially all the assets of bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corporation for a total of $12.7 billion in cash and 16% of the common stock of Time Warner's cable subsidiary. The two companies also swapped certain cable systems and unwound Comcast's 17.9% interest in Time Warner Cable and 4.7% in Time Warner Entertainment. The transactions expanded both companies' footprints and improved the geographic clustering of subscribers. The June 2006 amendment adjusted terms ahead of the July 31, 2006 closing.

Comcast and General Electric signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture 51% owned by Comcast, 49% owned by GE and managed by Comcast. The venture combined the NBC Universal businesses with Comcast's cable networks, regional sports networks and certain digital properties. NBCU's businesses were valued at $30 billion and Comcast contributed businesses valued at $7.25 billion. The transaction closed January 28, 2011 with the Amended and Restated LLC Agreement of NBCUniversal, LLC, giving Comcast control of NBC, Universal Pictures, Universal theme parks and a broad cable-network portfolio.

Comcast announced it would acquire GE's entire remaining 49% common equity stake in the NBCUniversal joint venture for approximately $16.7 billion, taking NBCUniversal to 100% Comcast ownership. NBCUniversal also purchased from GE the properties used at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and CNBC's Englewood Cliffs, NJ headquarters for approximately $1.4 billion. The acquisition accelerated GE's exit ahead of a redemption period that would have begun in July 2014 and closed March 19, 2013.

NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, announced the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation (NASDAQ: DWA) at an equity value of approximately $3.8 billion, with stockholders receiving $41.00 in cash per share. DreamWorks Animation creates animated feature films, television series and specials, live entertainment and related consumer products, and became part of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group alongside Universal Pictures and Fandango. Illumination founder Chris Meledandri was named to help guide the DreamWorks Animation business.

Following a UK auction process against Twenty-First Century Fox, Comcast announced terms of an increased superior cash offer for Sky plc at GBP 17.28 per share, implying a value of approximately $40.0 billion (GBP 30.6 billion) for Sky's fully diluted share capital. On October 9, 2018 Comcast Bidco Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, completed the acquisition of 672,783,139 ordinary shares (approximately 39.12% of Sky) for GBP 17.28 per share (GBP 11,625,692,641.92 in aggregate), with the offer declared unconditional as to acceptances and wholly unconditional, beginning the process to take Sky to full ownership.