Transactions

Access Media 3, a provider of video, voice and data service to multi-family properties, said it has closed three separate acquisitions that will add 28,000 customers in nine additional states.

Comcast said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy out General Electric Co.’s 49% interest in the NBCUniversal joint venture for $16.7 billion, giving the cable giant full control of the programming unit.

Comcast had been scheduled to buy the NBCU stake from GE in July 2014.

In addition, Comcast said NBCUniversal will purchase from GE the properties used by the programmer at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan and CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. for approximately $1.4 billion.

Charter Communications is close to finalizing a deal for Cablevision Systems’ Optimum West cable systems in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, sources in the cable financial community confirmed Thursday..

Charter, the fifth largest MSO in the country with about 5 million customers, beat out bids from Time Warner Cable, Suddenlink Communications and private equity group TPG Partners. Optimum West has about 300,000 subscribers.

British cable giant Virgin Media confirmed that it is in discussions with John Malone’s Liberty Global concerning a possible takeover, which could further solidify Liberty’s dominance in the European cable landscape.

“Virgin Media confirms that it is in discussions with Liberty Global, Inc., a leading international cable company, concerning a possible transaction,” Virgin Media said in a terse statement Tuesday. “Any such transaction would be subject to regulatory and other conditions. A further announcement will be made in due course.”

InterMedia Partners, fresh off a multimillion dollar deal to merge its Sportsman Channel outdoors network with Outdoor Channel, has engineered a transaction to take its Hispanic network holdings including Cine Latino and WAPA America public in a deal valued at about $400 million.