Unit 8 Task 1: NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) are owned by NBC Universal who themselves are a subsidiary of Comcast. NBC is an American commercial broadcasting television network based at Comcast headquarters in New York, with smaller offices located all over the States. They own and operate nearly 200 affiliated TV stations throughout the U.S as well as having rights to some stations over seas in countries such as Germany and South Korea. NBC are huge and are one of the 'Big Three' TV networks which are the three traditional commercial broadcasting TV networks that dominated American television from the 1940's all the way up to 1980's. The three big networks (ABC, CBS & NBC) all started out in 1941 originally running small local stations but eventually affiliating with other stations until covered the U.S. In 1986 General Electric purchased NBC until in 2003 when French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE forming NBC Universal. Comcast then purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011 and in 2013 acquired General Electrics reaming stakes.

NBC broadcast a huge amount of television shows all across the United States, but as of recently NBC are moving into creating their own original programming in what they call a 'robust original programing initiative' which they plan to distribute to online streaming site Hulu which is a joint venture between themselves ABC and a few other companies.