MEDIA ACQUISITIONS like Comcast’s purchase of NBC Universal enable a distribution company (Comcast) to also control the production (by NBC Universal) of much of its content. Comcast, the largest cable and broadband provider in the United States, now owns many of the channels that appear on its cable systems, including NBC, Telemundo, SyFy, E!, USA, Bravo, NBC Sports, the Golf Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, and the Weather Channel. NBC/Photofest