Why did Comcast ever buy NBC?
Decoder with Nilay Patel
- Published
- July 9, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 2m
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- Last updated
- Aug 12, 2026
Discusses My guest today is Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podca…
Summary
My guest today is Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. This dream, that you can combine distribution with…
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My guest today is Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. This dream, that you can combine distribution with big splashy entertainment properties, has failed time and again. But Comcast tried the content plus pipes strategy for longer than most. So Pe