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 company would be rebranded as Walt Disney Entertainment.
 * The pre-2004 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 to Versus, with NBCSN being fomed as a rebrand of Universal Sports instead.
 * [Golf Channel later rebranding to ESPN Golf or nah]
 * 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.
 * Comcast wouldn't acquire NBCUniversal in 2011, probably remaining majority-owned by GE.
 * While Pixar Animation Studios would still be acquired by Disney, Marvel Entertainment would instead be acquired 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.
 * Disney wouldn't have acquired 20th Century Fox, remaining under Rupert Murdoch's hands.
 * Disney wouldn't do live-action remakes, safe for a PG-13 The Black Cauldron remake.

Films

 * Frozen (2014)
 * The Black Cauldron (2018)
 * The Black Cauldron (2018)
 * The Black Cauldron (2018)