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# Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?

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**Published:** July 9, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.theverge.com/podcast/962994/comcast-nbc-universal-split-versant-content-plus-pipes-media-broadband  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is 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. That’s after […]

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