Editing NBC (section)

==Stations==
{{Main|List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)|List of NBC television affiliates (table)|NBC Owned Television Stations}}
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NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and current and pending affiliation agreements with 222 additional television stations encompassing 50 states, the District of Columbia, six U.S. possessions and two non-U.S. territories ([[Aruba]] and [[Bermuda]]).<ref name=re>{{cite web|title=Stations for Network – NBC|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=NBC|work=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007173308/https://rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=NBC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="StationIndex">{{cite web|title=Network Profile: NBC|url=http://www.stationindex.com/tv/by-net/nbc|publisher=Station Index|access-date=March 12, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121101/http://www.stationindex.com/tv/by-net/nbc|url-status=live}}</ref> The network has a national reach of 88.91% of all households in the United States (or 277,821,345 Americans with at least one television set). From January 24, 2022, when [[CBS]] affiliate [[WBKB-TV]] in [[Alpena, Michigan]] affiliated its DT2 subchannel with NBC, to December 31, 2024, when [[KXGN-TV]] in [[Glendive, Montana]] dropped NBC from its DT2 subchannel, NBC was the only major network with an in-market affiliate in every [[media market|designated market area]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WBKB adds NBC|url=https://mibuzzboard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=59428&sid=d374315f0e4da91e96658b9c88acc88c|access-date=April 17, 2022|archive-date=July 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718112627/https://mibuzzboard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=59428&sid=c1349ad459a8b4fea10e882021a371e6|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="grr-kxgnnonbc">{{cite news |last1=Heidner |first1=Brendan |title=KXGN-TV to undergo restructuring, beginning with ending NBC programming |url=https://www.rangerreview.com/news/kxgn-tv-to-undergo-restructuring-beginning-with-ending-nbc-programming/article_e896b7c6-c14a-11ef-b26d-67972dbab6f3.html |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=Glendive Ranger-Review |date=December 23, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

Currently, [[New Jersey]] and [[Delaware]] are the only U.S. states where NBC does not have a locally licensed affiliate. New Jersey is served by New York City O&O WNBC-TV and Philadelphia O&O WCAU; New Jersey formerly had an in-state affiliate in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]]-based [[WMGM-TV]], which was affiliated with the network from 1966 to 2014. Delaware is served by Salisbury affiliate [[WRDE-LD]] and Philadelphia-based [[WCAU]]. NBC maintains affiliations with low-power stations in a few smaller markets, such as [[Binghamton, New York]] ([[WBGH-CD]]), [[Jackson, Tennessee]] ([[WNBJ-LD]]) and [[Juneau, Alaska]] ([[KATH-LD]]), that do not have enough full-power stations to support a standalone affiliate. In some markets, these stations also maintain digital simulcasts on a subchannel of a co-owned/co-managed full-power television station.

Southern [[New Hampshire]] receives NBC programming via network-owned [[WBTS-CD]], licensed to serve [[Nashua, New Hampshire|Nashua]]; while nominally licensed as a low-power [[Class A television service|class A]] station, it transmits a full-power signal under a channel share with the [[WGBH Educational Foundation]] and its secondary Boston station [[WGBX-TV]] from [[Needham, Massachusetts]], and serves as the NBC station for the entire Boston market. Until 2019, NBC operated a low-powered station in Boston, WBTS-LD (now [[WYCN-LD]]), which aimed to serve as its station in that market while using a network of additional full-power stations to cover the market in full (including [[Merrimack, New Hampshire]]-licensed [[Telemundo]] station [[WNEU]], which transmitted WBTS on a second subchannel); NBC purchased the Nashua station (formerly WYCN-CD) in early 2018 after the FCC [[spectrum auction]], and in 2019 relocated WYCN-LD to Providence, Rhode Island to serve as a Telemundo station for that market.

[[Tegna Inc.|Tegna Media]] is the largest operator of NBC stations in terms of overall market reach, owning or providing services to 20 NBC affiliates (including those in larger markets such as [[WXIA-TV|Atlanta]], [[KUSA (TV)|Denver]], [[KSDK|St. Louis]], [[KING-TV|Seattle]] and [[WKYC-TV|Cleveland]]); [[Gray Television]] is the largest operator of NBC stations by numerical total, owning 28 NBC-affiliated stations.