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A new crop of leaders has emerged, reflecting Silicon Valley's vast influence.
Almost as soon as the two companies announced a split, analysts rushed to consider potential merger and acquisition targets for each.
A spinoff clock is forcing the media giant to find growth on its own, and the answer might not look like television at all.
Comcast says NBCUniversal split is not a prelude to M&A. But Warner Bros. Discovery just ran the same split-deny-sell script to a sale, and NBCUniversal may follow.
Comcast's announced plans to carve off NBCUniversal raised the question: Would Netflix go back to the M&A trenches to try to win a deal for NBCU?
Comcast spent 25 years arguing that media and broadband belonged together. Now it's breaking them apart.
