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’s media businesses, including NBC, Peacock and Universal, are moving one step closer to a sale.

All things being equal, the Comcast-NBCU marriage of the distribution and content assets will have been relatively short-lived.

By Lukas I. Alpert and Steve Goldstein