NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered at the Comcast Building in New York City, NBC also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza and in Chicago at the NBC Tower.
| Type | Radio and television network |
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| Country | United States |
| Affiliates | |
| Headquarters | Comcast Building, Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | NBCUniversal |
| Parent | NBC Entertainment |
| History | |
| Founded | June 19, 1926 |
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| Founder | David Sarnoff |
| Replaced | NBC Radio Network |
| Links | |
| Website | nbc |
Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network" in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting.
NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories, some of which are also available in Canada and Mexico via pay-television providers or in border areas over the air. NBC also maintains brand licensing agreements for international channels in South Korea and Germany.
| 1912 | Universal Pictures is founded |
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| 1926 | NBC is founded |
| 1953 | NBC begins first compatible color broadcasts, preceding other networks by nine years |
| 1956 | NBC's peacock logo debuts |
| 1963 | American Cable Systems is founded |
| 1967 | NBC broadcasts the first-ever Super Bowl |
| 1968 | American Cable Systems rebrands to Comcast |
| 1975 | Universal releases Jaws |
| 1982 | Universal releases E.T. The Extra Terrestrial |
| 1972 | Comcast began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) |
| 1985 | Universal's Back to the Future premieres |
| 1986 | General Electric buys NBC for $6.4 billion |
| 1989 | NBC launches CNBC |
| 1990 | Universal Studios Florida opens |
| 1993 | Universal's Jurassic Park premieres |
| 1996 | NBC and Microsoft launch MSNBC |
| 1999 | Universal Studios Florida expands to become Universal Orlando Resort |
| 2001 | Grand opening of Universal Studios Japan and Universal's The Fast and the Furious premieres |
| 2002 | NBC acquires Telemundo and Bravo Focus Features is formed Comcast acquires AT&T Broadband for $44.5 billion |
| 2003 | Universal becomes the first studio with five summer releases breaking the $100 million mark |
| 2004 | GE and Vivendi merge NBC and Universal into NBCUniversal |
| 2005 | Comcast and Time Warner Cable acquire Adelphia Cable assets for $17.6 billion |
| 2006 | USA Network begins 13-year streak as #1 cable network in total viewers |
| 2007 | Illumination Entertainment is founded |
| 2010 | Illumination's Despicable Me premieres |
| 2011 | Vivendi divested in NBCU; Comcast buys 51% of NBCU from GE, turning it into a limited liability company |
| 2013 | Comcast buys GE's remaining 49% of NBCU |
| 2014 | Comcast attempts to acquire Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion NBCUniversal reaches a new long-term deal with WWE |
| 2016 | NBCU acquires DreamWorks Animation |
| 2018 | Comcast acquires Sky |
| 2020 | NBCU launches Peacook |