NBC UNIVERSAL TELEVISION GROUP
NBC Universal Television Stations
The NBC Universal Television Stations division comprises 10 NBC television stations in major U.S. television markets, along with 16 Telemundo stations and one independent Spanish-language television station. Together, these stations cover more than 30% of the nation's viewing households, and annually generate approximately $1.5 billion in revenue from advertising sales. Individually managed and staffed, these stations broadcast NBC and Telemundo network programs (excluding the single independent station, KWHY) and present substantial amounts of locally produced news, sports, and public affairs programming. The company's Telemundo stations are in key Hispanic markets to capitalize on the nation's fastest-growing population segment, and station duopolies in six of the nation's top 20 markets enhance profitability and enable the stations to deliver the highest quality programming to their audiences.
| NBC Stations: |
WNBC (NBC4 New York)*
KNBC (NBC4 Los Angeles)*
WMAQ (NBC5 Chicago)*
WCAU (NBC10 Philadelphia)
KNTV (NBC3 San Jose/
San Francisco)* |
KXAS (NBC5 Dallas/
Fort Worth)*
WRC (NBC4 Washington)
WTVJ (NBC6 Miami)*
KNSD (NBC7/39 San Diego)
WVIT (NBC30 Hartford) |
| Telemundo Stations: |
|
KVEA (Los Angeles)*
WNJU (New York)*
WSCV (Miami)*
KTMD (Houston)
WSNS (Chicago)*
KXTX (Dallas/Fort Worth)*
KVDA (San Antonio)
KBLR (Las Vegas) |
KSTS (San Jose/San Francisco)*
KTAZ (Phoenix)
KNSO (Fresno)
KDEN (Denver)
KMAS (Denver)
WNEU (Boston/Merrimack)
KHRR (Tucson)
WKAQ (Puerto Rico) |
| Independent Stations: |
|
KWHY (Los Angeles)* |
| * Duopoly markets |
NBC Television NetworkThe NBC Television Network's strength derives from combining NBC's strong national identity and programming with the local identity and programming of its affiliates in communities across America. The sale of advertising time enables the NBC Television Network to provide programming to the public free of charge.
Affiliated television stations are an integral part of NBC's overall broadcast service. The NBC Television Network broadcasts approximately 5,000 hours of TV programming each year, transmitting to more than 200 affiliated stations across the United States. These independently owned affiliates then broadcast the NBC signal to an estimated 99 percent of all homes in the United States with television sets. In addition to airing NBC's national programming, affiliates serve their communities by producing news, sports, and public affairs programming that addresses local needs.
TelemundoTelemundo, a U.S. Spanish-language television network, is the essential entertainment, news and sports source for Hispanics. Broadcasting unique national and local programming for the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, Telemundo reaches 93% of U.S. Hispanic viewers in 142 markets through its 16 owned-and-operated stations, 36 broadcast affiliates and nearly 700 cable affiliates.
The network's schedule features a wide range of original programming, including popular novelas, talk shows, sports and news, reality, entertainment, and music programs. Telemundo is the only U.S. Spanish-language network to present a prime-time programming schedule consisting entirely of its own original programming. As a part of the NBC Universal family, Telemundo is able to offer viewers many programming synergies such as Spanish-language broadcasts of the
Miss Universe Pageantand
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In August of 2004, Telemundo made history by airing the first-ever Spanish-language coverage of the Olympics in the U.S.
NBC EntertainmentNBC Entertainment develops and schedules programming for the network's primetime, late-night, and daytime schedules. NBC's quality programs and balanced lineup have earned the network critical acclaim, numerous awards, and ratings success. The network has earned more Emmy Awards than any network in television history.
NBC's roster of popular scripted series includes critically acclaimed comedies like Emmy winner The Office , starring Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Steve Carell; 30 Rock , starring Alec Baldwin and SNL 's Tina Fey; two-time Emmy nominee
Scrubs; and critically acclaimed My Name Is Earl. Veteran, award-winning dramas include
ERand the
Law & Order brand. New series in 2006 include
Heroes, the top-ranked new show in 18-49; Friday Night Lights, which critics call “the most engrossing new drama of the fall season”; and, from West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin,
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Unscripted series for NBC include the break-out hit
Deal or No Deal and the international game-show phenomenon
1 vs. 100. Both shows have resulted in dramatic year-to-year gains in 18-49 and other key demos for their respective time periods.
NBC's late-night story is highlighted by the top-rated series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Last Call with Carson Daly, and
Saturday Night Live, each of which is No. 1 among key demographic groups.
NBC Daytime has been ranked No. 1 in the valuable women 18-34 category for over 350 consecutives weeks. The network's two daytime dramas,
Days of Our Lives and
Passions, are written by head writer James E. Reilly.
Saturday mornings the network broadcasts
Qubo on NBC, a three-hour block that features fun, entertaining, and educational programming for kids, including the award-winning, 3-D animated series
Veggie Tales.
NBC NewsNBC News has been a primary source of global news and information for more than 75 years, first on radio, and today via broadcast and cable television and the Internet. Operating around the clock with bureaus in key cities in the United States and overseas, NBC News provides immediate coverage and in-depth reporting of major events to Americans coast to coast.
In recent years, NBC has become the dominant force in television news, watched by more Americans than any other news organization. NBC News provides more than 25 hours of weekly programming in the United States, including the No. 1-rated broadcasts
Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and
Meet the Press . The network also produces weekend editions of
Nightly News and
Today as well as
The Chris Matthews Show .
Dateline NBC is the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime. Also under the NBC News umbrella is MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel and Internet service launched in 1996.
NBC Universal Sports & OlympicsNBC Universal Sports & Olympics presents a lineup of prestigious sports properties. As America's Olympics Network, NBC will bring television's most powerful property to hundreds of millions of viewers through 2012. In August 2004, the networks of NBC Universal offered 1,210 hours of Olympic coverage from Athens—attracting 203 million viewers—nearly triple NBC's total hours from Sydney in 2000. NBC Universal's coverage of the Athens Games accomplished the first ever 24-hour Olympic coverage featuring all 28 Summer Olympic sports and the first non-English language Olympic broadcast in U.S. television history with Telemundo's Spanish-language broadcast. In February 2006, NBC Universal presented the 2006 Olympic Winter Games from Torino, Italy, and broke web-traffic records with more than 260 million visits to NBCOlympics.com during the Games.
In September 2006, NBC Sports welcomed the National Football League to the network for the first time in eight years. In addition to broadcasting all games in HD, NBC implemented for the first time in history a “flexible scheduling” package, which allowed for surprise match-ups on Sunday primetime games later in the season. NBC's
Sunday Night Football primetime games are preceded by the high-definition presentation of
Football Night in America studio show hosted by Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, and Jerome Bettis. The agreement continues through the 2011 season and calls for 16 regular season Sunday night games, each season's
NFL Kickoff Thursday night primetime game, two postseason Wild Card games and three preseason games in primetime, in addition to Super Bowl XLIII in 2009 in Tampa and XLVI in 2012 and Pro Bowls in the same years.
Through the combined schedules of NBC Sports and USA Network, NBC Universal presents the most comprehensive golf package on television, including the U.S. Open, Ryder Cup, and a PGA Tour lineup (The Players Championship and the President's Cup). USA Network provides first and second round coverage of The Masters and a number of the PGA Tour's top events. The merged assets of NBC Sports and USA Network also allow the broadcast of the three most prestigious Grand Slam events in tennis: NBC with the French Open and Wimbledon, and USA Network with over 100 hours of the U.S. Open. Other NBC Sports broadcast properties include Notre Dame football, horse racing's Visa Triple Crown, National Hockey League, and the Breeders' Cup. The USA Network sports lineup also includes live, primetime coverage of the popular Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
NBC Weather PlusNBC Weather Plus is the nation's first all-digital, 24/7 broadcast network. A joint venture between NBC Universal and its affiliates, NBC Weather Plus combines national and local weather coverage with in-depth, live reports throughout the day from trusted local meteorologists, backed by the strength of the NBC News network. When viewers tune into NBC Weather Plus, the network's distinctive “L Bar” on the perimeter of the screen provides current temperatures as well as five-day and hour-by-hour forecasts in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even during commercials—a first for any network. In January 2006, the network launched WeatherPlus.com, the only online weather portal powered by local meteorologists