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NBC UNIVERSAL - FILM

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FILM

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures creates and distributes theatrical and non-theatrical filmed entertainment. A high-quality and diverse product mix is delivered to the growing global marketplace through a variety of internally developed titles, co-productions, local acquisitions, specialty motion pictures, direct-to-video titles, specialty video, classic titles, and consumer products. These films and videos then provide content for television, and further drive the recreation business, consumer products, and other ancillary businesses.

Balancing growth and cost containment, Universal Pictures has implemented a clearly defined business strategy—based on diversification, international expansion, maximization of distribution channels, and risk management—that balances gross production spending against the total investment.

Universal has achieved both popular success and critical acclaim with its recent Academy Award winners King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, Ray, A Beautiful Mind, The Pianist, and Lost in Translation. Classic, Academy Award-winning films from Universal include All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Schindler's List (1993).

In order to create the best, most memorable films, Universal Pictures has forged production agreements with some of the world's finest filmmakers and production companies, including: Imagine Entertainment (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard), Tribeca Films (Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal), Shady Acres (Tom Shadyac), The Kennedy/Marshall Company (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall), Double Feature Films (Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher), Playtone Company (Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman), Strike Entertainment (Marc Abraham), Type A Films (Reese Witherspoon), Depth of Field (Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz), Stephen Sommers, and Working Title Films (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner), Europe's foremost film production company.

In 2005, Universal dominated domestic and international box offices with King Kong, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson's epic retelling of the classic film, collecting more than $500 million in international box office receipts. Additionally, the studio grossed $110 million at domestic box offices with The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, starring Golden Globe winner Steve Carell.

In 2004, Universal's release of Meet the Fockers—the sequel to the 2000 hit comedy Meet the Parents—generated well over $200 million in its first five weeks in theaters and, in 2005, became the highest-grossing live-action comedy of all time with worldwide box-office receipts in excess of $500 million.

Focus Features

Focus Features is a motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company committed to bringing moviegoers the most original stories from the world's most innovative filmmakers. Formed in May 2002, Focus has quickly emerged as a premier film company, with Academy Award-winning movies including Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain , Roman Polanski's The Pianist, Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener , Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Upcoming from Focus in 2007 are Kasi Lemmons' Talk to Me , starring Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor; Joe Wright's Atonement , starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Romola Garai; David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises , starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts; Terry George's Reservation Road , starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, and Mira Sorvino; Lajos Koltai's Evening , starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Dame Eileen Atkins, Mamie Gummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep; and Lust, Caution , the new film from Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee.

Rogue Pictures

Focus Features' sibling company Rogue Pictures, formed in March 2004, is devoted to producing and distributing high-quality suspense, action, thriller, comedy, and urban entertainment with mainstream appeal and franchise potential. Upcoming from Rogue in 2007 are Dave Meyers' update of The Hitcher, produced by Michael Bay and starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton; Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, the new action comedy from the Shaun of the Deadteam; Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's Balls of Fury, starring Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, and Maggie Q; and Bryan Bertino's Strangers, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (USHE) markets and distributes NBC Universal's contemporary and classic theatrical and television product, spanning properties from the company's Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Rogue Pictures, and NBC Universal Television Studios, as well as DVD Original titles from Universal Home Entertainment Productions and select third-party productions, including entertainment from Mattel. NBC Universal is also leading the way in exploring innovative technologies and in developing and adapting dynamic new initiatives for the burgeoning home entertainment market.

USHE's vast 4,000-title catalog is among the largest and most celebrated in the industry, comprising a wide variety of titles and genres. Among its most-prized properties are the film franchises: The Fast and The Furious, The Mummy, American Pie, Bridget Jones, The Bourne series, Riddick, Bring It On, Beethoven, The Land Before Time, Curious George and the legendary monster movies. In 2006, USHE released such high-profile movie titles as King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, Bring It On: All or Nothing, Curious George, Jarhead, Munich, The Breakup, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Miami Vice and American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile as well as such widely anticipated television offerings as House Season 2, The Office Season 2 and Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5

NBC UNIVERSAL DIGITAL MEDIA

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NBC Universal Digital Media leads the company's content development and strategic distribution efforts across emerging digital platforms and technologies. In 2006, partnering with content leaders from around the company, Digital Media added broadband and mobile extensions to the on-air NBC experience. Key to that expansion was the original programming and interactive features of NBC Universal's robust slate of websites, which includes NBC.com, BravoTV.com, NBCSports.com, the new getTrio.com, and CNBC.com. In May 2006, Digital Media oversaw the acquisition of iVillage.com, a community-based online destination where millions of women have been connecting for more than ten years.

A leader in leveraging mobile technology, NBCU continues to expand its presence in wireless with gaming from Universal Mobile Entertainment, the addition of text-message components to popular on-air programming, and news and entertainment content on all of the major mobile carriers. Platform distribution deals include Apple's iTunes, where NBC Universal programs are consistently represented among the top 10 downloads.

NBC Universal Digital Media also launches innovative digital businesses and, in fall 2005, founded the NBC Universal Digital Studios. Dedicated to creating a wide variety of engaging video content for broadband and wireless devices, the studios produced the viral video hit “The Easter Bunny Hates You,” which, without marketing or promotion, has generated more than 5 million streams and was nominated for a 2006 Viral Video of the Year award from TelevisionWeek magazine.

iVillage.com

Acquired by NBC Universal in May 2006, iVillage is the first and largest media company dedicated exclusively to connecting women at every stage of their lives. Ranked the No.1 online destination for women with 16 million unique visitors, iVillage.com offers an authentic community infused with compelling content from experts on parenting, pregnancy, beauty, style, fitness, relationships, food and entertainment. The site's interactive features, including thousands of message boards and blogs, allow women around the world to connect, share ideas, and seek advice and support about everything from fertility to fashion. For more information, visit www.iVillage.com.

nbbc

nbbc (the National Broadband Company) is an independent business-to-business marketplace designed to aggregate, monetize and distribute both NBC Universal and third-party video to tens of millions of unique users worldwide. Launched in September 2006 by NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates, and with the participation of over 150 media partners, nbbc connects content owners, website owners and advertisers to create a robust viewing experience across the web. For more information, visit www.nbbc.com.

NBC UNIVERSAL TELEVISION GROUP

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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 Network

The 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.

Telemundo

Telemundo, 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 Entertainment

NBC 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 News

NBC 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 & Olympics

NBC 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 Plus

NBC 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

Company Profile - NBC UNIVERSAL

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NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by Vivendi.

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