The cable-TV spinoff being put together by Comcast - which is called Versant and will include USA Network, Syfy, Oxygen, E!, Golf Channel, CNBC and MSNBC - should be well set financially to start.

Over the succeeding years, News Corp offloaded its coupon-insert businesses, News America Marketing, as well as its Australian satellite-television company, Foxtel. It has also made headway in ...

The National Legal and Policy Center says chairman and CEO Brian Roberts' dual role gives him an "inordinate amount of ...