Comcast’s corporate reorganization means that there will soon be two television networks with “NBC” in their name — CNBC and MSNBC — that will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News.

The split would cleave off some of NBCUniversal’s best-known brands, which face the same cord-cutting challenges as many other major cable channels.

Comcast’s announcement that it will spinoff almost all of its cable networks has left a host of questions as to the path forward, particularly given the intertwined nature of NBC News with MSNBC and,