NBC

National Broadcasting Company
	Current logo, which is a revision of the 1986 logo, used since 2022
Type	Radio and television network
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Affiliates	State; Market;
Headquarters	30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rockefeller Center, New York City
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV; 720p or 1080p via ATSC 3.0 in some markets;
Ownership
Owner	NBCUniversal
Parent	NBC Entertainment
History
Founded	May 19, 1926
Launched	Radio: November 15, 1926; Television: April 30, 1939;
Founder	David Sarnoff
Replaced	NBC Radio Network
Links
Website	nbc.com
Availability
Streaming media
Affiliated Streaming Service(s)	Peacock
DirecTV Stream	Channel 392 (NBC HD East); Channel 393 (NBC HD West)
Service(s)	FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Peacock, Sling TV, YouTube TV

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. It is one of NBCUniversal's two namesake flagship subsidiaries alongside Universal Studios. It is also one of the oldest stations in the United States.

The headquarters of NBC is in New York City at the Comcast Building. NBC also notably has offices at the NBC Tower in Chicago, Illinois. The television channel also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza.

Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, later formally owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation, and United Fruit Company, NBC is the most oldest out of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks (with the other two going by the abbreviations of ABC and CBS) 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.^[1]

NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and has affiliates in almost every TV market in the United States. Some of the stations are also available in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Canada, 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.^[2]

^ "Slanguage Dictionary: P". Variety. February 20, 2013. Archived from the original on November 15, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
^ "Company Overview". NBC Universal. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved March 25, 2008.