NBC is owned by Comcast (the United States, NASDAQ: CMCSA), which acquired the brand on 28 January 2011, as part of a $13.8 billion deal that also included Universal Pictures, Telemundo and Universal Destinations & Experiences.[1][2] NBC was founded in 1926 in New York, New York and was independent until 2011.
NBC is the oldest broadcast network in the United States, founded as a radio network in 1926. Saturday Night Live has run on it since 1975, and its peacock logo dates from 1956, when it was introduced to advertise colour broadcasting.
What Comcast's annual report says about NBC
Sentences about NBC from Comcast's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
(b) NBC Sports Network launched in November 2025 and approximate U.S. household data was not available as of December 31, 2025.
Domestic Broadcast Networks NBC The NBC network features original entertainment, news and sports programming that reaches viewers in virtually all U.S. television households through more than 200 affiliated stations across the United States, including our 11 owned NBC local broadcast television stations.
The NBC owned local broadcast television stations include stations in 8 of the top 10 general markets and collectively reached approximately 36 million U.S. television households as of December 31, 2025 , representing approximately 28% of U.S. television households.
How often Comcast names NBC in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Comcast is a publicly listed company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1963. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CMCSA.
Comcast began in 1963 with a small cable system in Mississippi and grew into the largest cable operator in the United States. Its 2011 purchase of NBCUniversal made a distribution company into a studio owner, and Sky added most of European pay television in 2018.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States.
478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; NBC is not one of them.
Comcast took majority control of NBCUniversal from General Electric in a transaction valuing the business at about $30 billion, contributing cable channels and $13.75 billion in cash. It turned the largest American cable distributor into a studio owner, and regulators imposed conditions on how it treated rival programmers.
The parent company of NBC is Comcast, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is NBC American?
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Yes. NBC originated in the United States in 1926 and its owner, Comcast, is also headquartered in the United States.
When did Comcast buy NBC?
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Comcast completed its acquisition of NBC on 28 January 2011, after announcing the deal on 3 December 2009. The deal, which also included Universal Pictures, Telemundo and Universal Destinations & Experiences, was valued at $13.8 billion (enterprise value).
Who owned NBC before Comcast?
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NBC was an independent company from its founding in 1926 in New York, New York until Comcast acquired it in 2011.
Is NBC still owned by Comcast?
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Yes. As of 9 October 2026, NBC is still owned by Comcast. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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