NBC Television Network is a USA television network.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is one of the leading American television networks. Through its affiliate TV stations, NBC broadcasts both across the USA and around the world. Its programming consists of news, reality TV, entertainment shows and cultural and political specials. Popular NBC shows include This Is Us, The Blacklist, The Voice and Saturday Night Live.
Established in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC was the first major broadcast network in the United States. General Electric acquired NBC when it purchased RCA in 1986. General Electric sold a majority interest in operating company NBC Universal to Comcast Corporation in January 2011.
NBC is referred to as "the peacock network" due to its stylized peacock logo, which was designed in the 1960's to promote the introduction of color broadcasting. NBC has 19 owned-and-operated TV stations and about 200 affiliates in the United States. The company also operates NBC News and NBC Sports.
It is one of the worst American media outlets, according to Mondo Times members.
This television channel is owned by NBCUniversal.
Mailing address: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
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-- Roker, 67, a longtime weathercaster for NBC's Today Show, talks about how he became a weather reporter. About climate change, he believes "it's still anybody's ballgame." That's the anodyne view always favored on network television, which has ignored the topic for decades and continues to do so.
Kyle Pope wrote at CJR on April 20, 2022:
Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 26, 2022
-- Viewership of the Olympics on NBC dropped by almost half (47%) relative to the 2018 games in South Korea. Between Covid testing, empty stands, food poisoning, positive drug tests and a traumatized 15 year-old Russian skater, it's not hard to see why.
David Bauder and Joe Reedy wrote at the Associated Press on February 19, 2022:
Once savvy, NBC's Olympics deal is shakier after Beijing
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, February 24, 2022
-- The preferred euphemism for it is "enhanced viewing experience." There won't be any spectators in the Tokyo venues of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, so NBC plans to sex things up with artificial crowd noise and cameras in the homes of athletes' families. Welcome to the made-only-for-TV Olympics.
Oliver Darcy wrote at CNN on July 9, 2021:
Olympics 2021: NBC faces 'hell of a challenge' producing Tokyo Games after spectators are barred from competitions
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, July 20, 2021
-- Four episodes of the hit show depicting actors in blackface will no longer be aired, NBC Universal has announced. The request to drop the episodes came from Fey, who said "I understand now that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused."
Christine Hauser wrote at The New York Times on June 23, 2020:
Streaming Services Remove '30 Rock' Blackface Episodes
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, July 21, 2020
-- Deadline Hollywood Daily editor in chief Nikke Finke broke the story that NBC Universal ordered immediate cutbacks to 'The Tonight Show.'
Finke's inside sources told her that the layoffs are expected to hit between 20 and 25 staffers. Leno is rumored to be taking a "tremendous" pay cut to "save as many jobs as he could," Deadline reported.
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