Moreover, their entertainment offerings which include cable, the production and distribution of news, sports and other content, in addition to the NBC Universal franchise which include theme parks offer numerous avenues for potential growth.
OWN's 24-hour-a-day programming launched on Jan. 1 in 80 million homes as a partnership between Winfrey's Harpo production company and cable programming powerhouse Discovery Communications.
Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal.
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Take the production of basic electric cable.
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If a project is green-lighted, the networks or cable channels buy it and fund its production, and the creators have to give up some or all of their control over the material.
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Although NBC is owned by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), it is not a part of a stable of production houses, recording studios and cable outlets the way its Big Four peers are--each of them part of an entire content distribution chain.
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It now has every bit of distribution that is regarded as essential: publishing, movie and television production, music, a small television-broadcast network, cable systems and cable networks.
Indeed, the regulators worry that programme-making cable companies, which are obliged to make their programming available to their competitors, are loading system costs on to their production arms, thereby passing them on to satellite broadcasters and other cable operators.
Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.
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The scripts gathered dust, the scope of the production and the extent of the show's necessary visual effects deemed too expensive for a broadcast or cable network.
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