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    Submitted by ITV Production on May 07
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: Comcast Corp. owned NBCUniversal will sell a substantial portion of its stake in A&E Television Networks to joint venture partners, according to the company?s filing with Securities and Exchange Commission last week.

    Comcast expects the deal, which is believed to be worth about $2 billion, to close in the second half of 2012. The company owns almost 15.8 percent in A&E, which it acquired through its acquisition of NBCU from GE Electric.

    Earlier, NBCU had brought down its ownership from the initial 25 per cent it held as of late 2009.

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    The Walt Disney Company along with Hearst Corporation are the majority shareholders in A&E with 42.1 per cent and 42.2 per cent stake respectively.

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