The new publicly traded company is set to debut next year, with a bundle of channels that also includes Oxygen, E! and Syfy.

Comcast’s corporate reorganization means that there will soon be two television networks with “NBC” in their name — CNBC and MSNBC — that will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Joe Rogan have joked about the idea of buying MSNBC after Comcast's spinoff announcement.

Comcast is creating a new company, comprising nearly all of NBCUniversal’s current cable networks with the exception of Bravo, home of the 'Real Housewives.'

Comcast would retain NBCUniversal's NBC broadcast television network, its film and television studios and its theme parks, as well as its Peacock streaming service.

Comcast, the media conglomerate that owns NBC News, announced a plan to spin off most of its cable television networks into a separate publicly traded company.

Comcast is carving off most of its cable channels. Will its new spinoff be a hunter or prey? The media giant last week put an upbeat spin on its move to shed what Wall Street sees as an albatross - the bulk of NBCUniversal's cable networks,

The split would cleave off some of NBCUniversal’s best-known brands, which face the same cord-cutting challenges as many other major cable channels.