{"id":94608915,"date":"2011-05-31T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/report-comcast-to-purchase-all-of-universal-orlando\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:55:00","slug":"report-comcast-to-purchase-all-of-universal-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/report-comcast-to-purchase-all-of-universal-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Comcast to Purchase All of Universal Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Full ownership of Universal Orlando could soon belong to Comcast <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA report today from TheWrap.com suggests that Comcast is seeking full ownership of the Universal Orlando theme park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cable giant&rsquo;s purchase of NBCUniversal earlier this year gave the company ownership of exactly 50 percent of Orlando&rsquo;s second-largest theme park. However, it has been widely reported that park co-owner Blackstone is willing to sell its share of the attraction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA deal for full ownership of the park could cost Comcast an additional $1 billion to $1.5 billion. Comcast has until June 12 to buy out Blackstone or else the company will be free to hear third-party bids on the property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report comes on the heels of one of Universal Orlando&rsquo;s most successful year-openings to date. The brand new Wizarding World of Harry Potter led the park to a 68 percent increase in attendance during the first three months of 2011.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/business\/universal-orlando-sale-20110531,0,4355395.story\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Full ownership of Universal Orlando could soon belong to Comcast &nbsp; A report today from TheWrap.com suggests that Comcast is seeking full ownership of the Universal Orlando theme park. &nbsp; The cable giant&rsquo;s purchase of NBCUniversal earlier this year gave the company ownership of exactly 50 percent of Orlando&rsquo;s second-largest theme park. However, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}