NBC

NBC is an American television network. Founded in 1926 as the Radio Corporation of America, it was the first major US broadcast network and obtained the FCC's first commercial TV station license in 1941.

Through more than 200 independently owned affiliate stations and 10 NBC owned and  operated stations, the network currently broadcasts about 5,000 hours of programming annually to 99% of all homes in the country with television sets. The home to popular and acclaimed 1990s series such as Seinfeld, Friends, and ER, NBC found itself fall from the number one network in terms of ratings to number four by 2004.

The network is part of the NBC Universal company, which is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% by Vivendi. Under the leadership of Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal, Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff direct the television operations as co-chairmen of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “NBC”

• NBCs Vieira: Former POW Lynch a Pawn Used to Sell a War Hard Up for Appealing Heroes

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 833
  As part of an ongoing series called Todays Buzziest Stories of the Decade, NBCs Meredith Vieira, on Mondays Today, featured a segment with former Iraq war POW Jessica Lynch, and with it brought back some of the "Buzziest" bias of the decade as Vieira declared Lynchs story was "exaggerated to sell a war hard up for ...
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• Now This Is Why Al Michaels Is The Best

  
  AwfulAnnouncing — Authority: 568
  A few years ago, I thought that Al Michaels was becoming a bitter old man, but this season and last has proved that theory wrong. He seems to be having fun again, throwing in his lines about spreads in the middle of games, and using great quotes like this one! Via Slanch Report Im not sure if he meant ...
  11 hours ago

• Comcast-NBC deal finds campaign cash converging with Obama’s principles

  
  Western Journalism.com — Authority: 143
  The proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal will be the first big test of the Obama administration’s stance on the hot-button issue of media consolidation.   Comcast has been a generous donor to Obama and Democrats It could also put the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress at odds with a few ...
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• Networks Acknowledge ‘ClimateGate,’ But Remain Undeterred: ‘Science is Solid’

  
  Western Journalism.com — Authority: 143
  More than two weeks after ClimateGate broke, ABC’s World News finally got around to mentioning it on Sunday evening, but not to explore how the e-mails discredited leading scientists who insist mankind is causing global warming as, instead, ABC declared “the science is solid” and NBC assured viewers “the ...
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• All 10 Million Slim-Fast Canned Drinks Recalled

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 432
  Slim Fast; May Not Have Desired Results Unilever, makers of Slim-Fast is recalling all 10 million products currently on the market — all 10 million. The weight loss drinks are being recalled because of bacterial contamination that could cause diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. The products could be contaminated with ...
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• Get ready for a brand new Chuck Bartowski

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 705
  Fans of Chuck know that something happened to him in the season finale that is going to take the show into a whole new area: Chuck Bartowski now has the skills of a spy and not just the info stuck in his head. In this cool preview of the new season (which Vik Sahay talked about a bit in last weeks podcast ), we ...
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• Solid boost for Vikings/Cardinals

  
  Sports Media Watch — Authority: 567
  The first flex scheduling move of the season paid off for NBC.Sunday nights Vikings/Cardinals game, which replaced a previously scheduled Patriots/Dolphins matchup, drew a 13.7/21 overnight rating on NBC -- up 23% from Vikings/Bears in Week 13 last season (11.1/17), and up 9% from Steelers/Ravens last week ...
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• Viacom: Don’t look to us for major dealmaking

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 583
  After Comcast-NBC Universal , investment bankers are clearly drooling at the thought of some big money wheeling and dealing in the media business. Probably best not to count too heavily on Viacom being a player. Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman, speaking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, ...
  12 hours ago

• Woman linked with World B. Free shot and killed – FOXSports.com

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  New York Daily News Woman linked with World B . Free shot and killed FOXSports.com by FOXSports.com A woman with whom former NBA All-Star World B . Free used to have a relationship was killed Sunday night in front of her family home in ... Wife of ex-NBA star World B . Free fatally ...
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• Chandler Massey Joins The Cast of Days of Our Lives.

  
  SoapOperaFan.com — Authority: 149
  Days is about to get a new Will Horton. Dylan Patton, who has played the role since February 27, 2009 is leaving the cast. Chandler Massey will be taking over the role. He will be the fifth actor to play the part. You may have seen Massey in one of his Primetime appearances on shows like “One Tree Hill,” ...
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• Your Monday Linkage

  
  Fang's Bites — Authority: 476
  As I’m dragging today after getting home very early from TARCon, I’ll do some linkage and we have a lot of them. We’ll begin with a few links from the Sports Business Journal. John Ourand and Michael Smith write that the NCAA has started the process of discussing expanding its men’s basketball tournament ...
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• Bozell: Nets Cover ClimateGate, But Load Story with Bias

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 833
  "Well, NBC, ABC and CBS finally got around to reporting on ClimateGate" but it "wasn’t worth the wait," Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell said in a statement today. [Click here for the full press release ] "NBC and ABC’s reports were so biased, they left their audiences as ...
  13 hours ago

• To the Networks, Tiger Woods Gossip 15 Times More Newsworthy Than ClimateGate

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 833
  If ABC, NBC and CBS judgment is correct, Tiger Woods infidelity is more important than a climate change scandal involving high profile scientists, potentially ‘manipulated data, and censorship of skeptics among the scientific community. How much more important? Over 15 times. Despite the impending Copenhagen ...
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• Vid-Biz: Adobe, GE-Comcast, VisibleGains

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 708
  Adobe Uses New “Open Source” Video Player on its Corporate Site; the company is showcasing the video player on Adobe.TV, its new video site. ( Beet.TV ) As Part of Comcast Deal, GE Promises to Continue Advertising; GE is obligated to spend at least $59 million on ads with the merged Comcast-NBCU each year for ...
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• Michaels: ‘Sooner Or Later 69 Will Be In Your Face’

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 729
  It’s one of broadcasting’s great truths: Sooner or later, if you’re on the air long enough, you will have your Howard Cosell moment. Cosell, of course, had his a career’s worth of work nearly obliterated by one unfortunate phrase during a 1983 Monday Night Football game, when he blurted during an Alvin ...
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• Changes coming to Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 705
  Just a week or so ago we told you about Heroes Sendhil Ramamurthy being cast in the new NBC comedy Rex Is Not Your Lawyer , which stars David Tennant, Jane Curtin and Jeffrey Tambor. Now comes word that maybe Ramamurthy shouldnt give up his gig on Heroes just yet. Jerry OConnell has replaced Ramamurthy in ...
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• Religion Discussed In Clip From This Week’s ‘Community’

  
  The Flickcast — Authority: 514
  Religion is sometimes a touchy subject to discuss in social situations, let alone in something as widely viewed as network TV. This is why most comedy programming vows to stay away from the taboo subject, in order to play nice with the millions of potential viewers. Luckily, NBC’s Community doesn’t seem to care ...
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• adult bloglationships

  
  billilovesmargot — Authority: 116
  Adult relationships. It just dawned on me that my most adult relationship was when I was about 18 years old. I thought of this and giggled because the list includes a 4 year relationship during my early 20s of which 3 of those were spent living under the same roof. Playing house does NOT equal being in an adult ...
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• Frank Buckles, America’s Oldest WWI Veteran, Is Also Its Oldest Activist

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 788
  Drop everything you are doing and pay tribute to Frank Buckles , the last living World War I veteran and who seems to be the nation’s oldest living veteran as well. He is 108 years old — and he is still fighting for what he believes in. And he went to Capitol Hill to do it. The wheelchair-bound, 108-year-old ...
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• NBC Gets its Mid-Season Report Card

  
  the TV addict — Authority: 437
  The Good: ‘The Biggest Loser’ are three words that not only sum up one of NBC’s only bright-spots ratings-wise this fall, but also the fact that the downward spiral that the Peacock Network currently finds itself in has not just one, but two benefits for us TV Addicts. (1) It has set NBC’s bar for renewal so ...
  14 hours ago

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