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NBC

The common abbreviation for the National Broadcasting Company, which was the first major broadcasting network in the United States. NBC launched as a radio network in 1926 and began television broadcasts in 1938 (it ended its radio component in 2003). With a market share of more than 40% of the viewing audience, it is very popular among advertisers who wish to disseminate their messages to as wide a group as possible.

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The Peacock network led TV categories with victories for episodic drama and comedy along with musical variety.

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"It's going to be more of a variety entertainment show," Dewan told Women's Wear Daily of her project on the Peacock Network. "It's fun discovering new incredible dance talent, but as well as being one hell of a show every week, it will be super fun.

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CBS Sports and NCAA reach unprecedented agreement on 11-year contract providing Peacock network with all broadcast television, cable, radio, Internet and marketing rights to Division I men's basketball championship game

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TV ratings were flat for NBC, but the Peacock Network was still the most-viewed on broadcast thanks to strong ratings for "Sunday Night Football." An analysis of Nielsen data from the research firm MoffettNathanson showed NBC averaged 3.2 million prime-time viewers aged 18-49, compared with 2 million viewers on Fox, 2.4 million on CBS and 2.3 million on ABC.

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The agreement -- which calls for more deals with minority-owned production companies, funding a writer on the staff of every second-year show, and making writing and directing staffs more diverse -- has effectively called off any threat of protest against the Peacock network by the civil rights org.

Peacock, Alphabet pact with NAACP

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The company (39.9% of which is owned by GE Equity and NBC) will relaunch as SnapTV, named after the Internet portal Snap (co-owned by the Peacock network and CNET), in the middle of the year.

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The company's unwieldy corporate culture is often spoofed on NBC's "30 Rock," the Tina Fey comedy set in a quasi-fictional universe in which the Peacock Network is owned by an unseen conglomerate called Cable Town.

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Six years after he abdicated NBC's late shift for CBS, David Letterman is returning to the Peacock network ...

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Harmon on Monday had strong words for his former bosses at Sony Pictures Television and the Peacock Network when he sat in on a (http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tb/tb120806dan_harmons_exit_fro) radio program in Santa Monica.

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The Peacock Network steps on Fox's turf April 27 with "The World's Most Dangerous Magic" and May 17 with "Unmasked: Exposing the Secrets of Deception." Other sweeps programming includes the miniseries "Witness to the Mob" on May 10 and 11 and "Saturday Night Live Remembers Chris Farley" on May 13.