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{{Short description|American broadcast television network}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = National Broadcasting Company
| logo = [[File:NBC logo 2022 (vertical).svg|frameless|upright=0.6|class=skin-invert]]
| logo_caption = Current [[NBC logo|logo]], which is a revision of the 1986 logo, used since 2022
| logo_alt = 
| type = [[Radio network]] and [[television network]]
| country = [[United States]]
| area = Worldwide
| affiliates = {{hlist|[[List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)|State]]|[[List of NBC television affiliates (table)|Market]]}}
| headquarters = [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]], [[Rockefeller Center]], [[New York City]]
| language = English
| picture_format = {{ubl|[[1080i]] [[High-definition television|HDTV]]|''[[720p]] or [[1080p]] via [[ATSC 3.0]] in some markets''}}
| owner = [[NBCUniversal]]
| parent = [[NBCUniversal Media Group#Units|NBC Entertainment]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|1926|05|19}}
| founder = [[David Sarnoff]]
| launch_date = {{ubl|'''Radio:''' {{Start date and age|1926|11|15}}|'''Television:''' {{Start date and age|1939|04|30}}}}
| replaced = [[NBC Radio Network]]
| website = {{url|https://www.nbc.com/|nbc.com}}
| online_serv_1 = Affiliated Streaming Service(s)
| online_chan_1 = [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]]
| online_serv_2 = [[DirecTV Stream]]
| online_chan_2 = Channel 392 (NBC HD [[WNBC|East]])<br>Channel 393 (NBC HD [[KNBC|West]])
| online_serv_3 = Service(s)
| online_chan_3 = [[FuboTV]], [[Hulu + Live TV]], Peacock, [[Sling TV]], [[YouTube TV]]
}}

The '''National Broadcasting Company''' ('''NBC''') is an American [[Commercial broadcasting|commercial broadcast]] [[Television broadcaster|television]] and [[radio network]] serving as the flagship property of the [[NBC Entertainment]] division of [[NBCUniversal]], a subsidiary of [[Comcast]]. It is one of NBCUniversal's two namesake flagship subsidiaries alongside [[Universal Studios, Inc.|Universal Studios]]. It is also one of the oldest stations in the [[United States]].

The headquarters of NBC is in [[New York City]] at the [[30 Rockefeller Plaza|Comcast Building]]. NBC also notably has offices at the [[NBC Tower]] in [[Chicago]], Illinois.

Founded in 1926 by the [[RCA|Radio Corporation of America]], NBC is the oldest of the traditional "[[Big Three (American television)|Big Three]]" American television networks (with the other two going by the abbreviations of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[CBS]]) and is sometimes referred to as the '''Peacock Network''' in reference to its [[NBC logo|stylized peacock logo]], which was introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early [[color television|color broadcasting]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Slanguage Dictionary: P|url=https://variety.com/static-pages/slanguage-dictionary/#p |website=Variety |access-date=June 2, 2021|date=20 February 2013|archive-date=November 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115190716/https://variety.com/static-pages/slanguage-dictionary/#p|url-status=live}}</ref>

NBC has twelve [[NBC Owned Television Stations|owned-and-operated stations]] and has [[List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)|affiliates]] in almost every [[Media market|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 [[Canada–United States border|border areas]] over the air. NBC also maintains brand licensing agreements for international channels in [[South Korea]] and [[Germany]].<ref name="NBCuni.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcuni.com/About_NBC_Universal/Company_Overview/overview02.shtml|publisher=NBC Universal|title=Company Overview |access-date=March 25, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122126/http://www.nbcuni.com/About_NBC_Universal/Company_Overview/overview02.shtml |archive-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref>