NBC

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. The headquarters of NBC is in New York City at the Comcast Building. NBC also notably has offices in Chicago, Illinois at the NBC Tower within the area known as the Near North Side. Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest 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. NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and has affiliates in every TV market in the United States. Some of the stations are also available in Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico 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.

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