What if Comcast acquired The Walt Disney Company back in 2004?

As of 2019, The Walt Disney Company is one of the major media companies to be independently owned rather than owned by a larger company (e.g: Viacom and CBS Corporation by National Amusements, NBCUniversal by Comcast, WarnerMedia by AT&T and Columbia Pictures by Sony).

However, on February 11th, 2004, when the company was passing through some difficulties, Comcast Corporation made a hostile bid of $54.1 billion to acquire the company, just to be rejected by Disney's board of directors and eventually dropped out.

But what if Comcast was successful in that bid? Here's what might have happened.

List of changes

 * The deal was officially approved on May TBDth, 2005.
 * The company would be rebranded as Walt Disney Entertainment.
 * The pre-2005 Disney library would now be owned by Comcast.
 * Disney's film and television units would include a Comcast byline on its logos.
 * E!, Style, G4, OLN, Golf Channel and Comcast SportsNet would be integrated into Disney-ABC Television Group.
 * As a result, OLN wouldn't rebrand as Versus, rebranding instead as ESPNX, with NBCSN being launched as a rebrand of Universal Sports instead.
 * Later on, Golf Channel would rebrand as ESPN Golf and Comcast SportsNet as ESPNR.
 * Walt Disney Pictures would still use its full name for post-2011 releases rather than simplify to just Disney.
 * The Touchstone Pictures label would be more active, being often used by mature films that doesn't fit the Walt Disney Pictures label.
 * Comcast wouldn't acquire NBCUniversal in 2011, remaining majority-owned by GE.
 * While Pixar Animation Studios would still be acquired by Disney, Marvel Entertainment would be acquired instead by Sony Pictures and Lucasfilm by 21st Century Fox.
 * As a result, the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be distributed by Columbia Pictures, while its animated shows would air instead on Cartoon Network (despite its parent company WarnerMedia owning rival DC Comics).
 * However, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would still air on ABC, being produced by Sony Pictures Television rather than ABC Studios.
 * Big Hero 6 would have been made by Sony Pictures Animation.
 * As for Lucasfilm, the new Star Wars trilogy would still be distributed by 20th Century Fox, while Star Wars Rebels would air on Cartoon Network like The Clone Wars.
 * Disney wouldn't have acquired 21st Century Fox's filmed entertainment and cable television assets, remaining under Rupert Murdoch's hands.
 * Disney wouldn't do live-action remakes, mainly focusing on original ideas.
 * The only exception would be a PG-13 The Black Cauldron remake.
 * The studio would keep doing traditionally-animated films alongside CGI films.
 * Tangled, Frozen and Moana would be traditionally-animated instead of CGI.

Animated

 * Chicken Little (2005)
 * The Wild (2006)
 * Cars (2006)
 * Meet the Robinsons (2007)
 * Ratatouille (2007)
 * WALL-E (2008)
 * Bolt (2008)
 * Up (2009)
 * A Christmas Carol (2009)
 * The Princess and the Frog (2009)
 * Toy Story 3 (2010)
 * Tangled (2010)
 * Frozen (2014)
 * /Fantasia Remix/ (2016)
 * Howl of the Moon (2018)
 * /Gigantic/ (2019)
 * Howl of the Moon (2018)
 * /Gigantic/ (2019)
 * /Gigantic/ (2019)
 * /Gigantic/ (2019)

Live-action

 * Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005, first film under Comcast's ownership)
 * /The Black Cauldron/ (2019)
 * /The Black Cauldron/ (2019)