NBC Universal/NBC Television Station Flashcards
Name at least 10 of the channels that are owned or joint ventured by NBC Universal?
NBC NBC Sports Network Golf Channel Comcast SportsNet Group Syfy Chiller Cloo E! Hallmark USA Network Universal HD Bravo Esquire Network Oxygen Sprout TVOne Telemundo NBC Universo (formerly mun2) CNBC CNBC World MSNBC The Weather Channel
Name the joint venture channels that NBC Universal is affiliated with?
Esquire and TvOne
The world’s largest mass media group?
NBCUniversal
Who redesigned the NBC Universal logo?
Wolff Olins
Where is NBCUniversal headquartered?
Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhatten, NY
What is the current name of the building where NBC is housed and what will it be named in the future?
GE Building & Comcast Building
NBC is sometimes referred to as?
The Peacock Network
The oldest major broadcast network in the United States?
NBC
In 1943, NBC was forced by the FCC to sell both it’s networks. What were the two networks named?
NBC Blue Network and NBC Red Network
NBC Blue Network was sold of to who and later renamed what?
Life Savers magnate Edward J. Noble and later renamed American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
What is the note sequence for the famous three-note NBC chime?
G, E, C
In 1939, NBC was the first broadcaster to televise the president to the public, who was he?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Establishing many “firsts” in the history of television, NBC was the first to take cameras to these professional sporting events?
NFL and MLB in the New York City area (1939)
What was the first NBC Television “network” program broadcast?
“Meet The Wife” in 1940
The first official, paid television advertisement that broadcast, seen just before the start of a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball telecast on WNBT?
Bulova Watches commercial
