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Headquarters. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, New York. Owner. NBCUniversalComcastKey people. Bob Greenblatt Chairman, NBC EntertainmentLaunch date. Watch Fred 2 Night Of The Living Fred Online Fandango CodeRadio November 1. Television April 3. Picture format. 10. HDTV4. 80i SDTVExperimentally broadcasting at 1. NBC affiliate WRAL TVAffiliates. Lists By state or Details. Official websitenbc. Language. English. The National Broadcasting Company NBC is an American. English languagecommercial broadcasttelevision network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 3. Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles at 1. Universal City Plaza, and Chicago at the NBC Tower. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the Peacock Network, in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1. It became the networks official emblem in 1. Founded in 1. 92. Radio Corporation of America RCA, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. In 1. 98. 6, control of NBC passed to General Electric GE which previously owned RCA and NBC until 1. RCA. Following the acquisition by GE which later liquidated RCA, Bob Wright served as chief executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2. Jeff Zucker. In 2. French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, forming NBC Universal. Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2. General Electrics remaining stake in 2. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBCUniversal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke. NBC has thirteen owned and operated stations and nearly 2. United States and its territories, some of which are also available in 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. HistoryeditEarliest stations WEAF and WJZeditDuring a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America RCA acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone Telegraph AT T. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had a competing outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ no relation to the radio and television station in Baltimore currently using those call letters, which also served as the flagship for a loosely structured network. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1. New York City. 3WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice and music grade audio over short and long distances, using both wireless and wired methods. The 1. 92. 2 creation of WEAF offered a research and development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a regular schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs, and was an immediate success. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island and with AT Ts station in Washington, D. C., WCAP. New parent RCA saw an advantage in sharing programming, and after getting a license for radio station WRC in Washington, D. C., in 1. 92. 3, attempted to transmit audio between cities via low quality telegraph lines. AT T refused outside companies access to its high quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the uninsulated telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric and other electrical interference. In 1. 92. 5, AT T decided that WEAF and its embryonic network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT Ts phone lines for network transmission. Red and Blue NetworkseditRCA spent 1 million to purchase WEAF and Washington sister station WCAP, shut down the latter station, and merged its facilities with surviving station WRC in late 1. National Broadcasting Company. The divisions ownership was split among RCA a majority partner at 5. General Electric which owned 3. Westinghouse which owned the remaining 2. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 1. WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side by side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On January 1, 1. 92. NBC formally divided their respective marketing strategies the Red Network offered commercially sponsored entertainment and music programming the Blue Network mostly carried sustaining or non sponsored broadcasts, especially news and cultural programs. Various histories of NBC suggest the color designations for the two networks came from the color of the pushpins NBC engineers used to designate affiliate stations of WEAF red and WJZ blue, or from the use of double ended red and blue colored pencils. On April 5, 1. 92. NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network, also known as the Pacific Coast Network. This was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 1. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network. Initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. In 1. 93. 6, the Orange Network affiliate stations became part of the Red Network, and at the same time the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1. 93. 0s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, called the NBC White Network. In 1. 92. 7, NBC moved its operations to 7. Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown. The space that NBC occupied was designed by Raymond Hood, who based the appearance of its multiple studio facilities on a Gothic church, the Roman forum, a Louis XIV room and, in a space devoted to jazz, something wildly futuristic, with plenty of color in bizarre designs. NBC outgrew the Fifth Avenue facilities in 1. In 1. 93. 0, General Electric was charged with antitrust violations, resulting in the companys decision to divest itself of RCA. The newly separate company signed leases to move its corporate headquarters into the new Rockefeller Center in 1. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., founder and financier of Rockefeller Center, arranged the deal with GE chairman Owen D. Young and RCA president David Sarnoff. When it moved into the complex in 1. RCA became the lead tenant at 3. Rockefeller Plaza, known as the RCA Building later the GE Building, now the Comcast Building, which housed NBCs production studios as well as theaters for RCA owned RKO Pictures. Entrance at the GE Building. The iconic three note NBC chimes came about after several years of development. The three note sequence, G E C, was first heard over Red Network affiliate WSB in Atlanta,8 with a second inversion. C Major triad as its outline. An executive at NBCs New York headquarters heard the WSB version of the notes during the networked broadcast of a Georgia Tech football game and asked permission to use it on the national network. NBC started to use the chimes sequence in 1. U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.