NBC Entertainment NBC Entertainment is
NBCUniversal's entertainment arm of the
NBC television network. The division includes prime time programming, business affairs, West Coast research, marketing, public relations and network scheduling departments.
History In July 2008,
Universal Cable Productions was split off from
Universal Media Studios and placed into NBCUniversal's
NBCU Cable Entertainment division. On Monday, September 12, 2011, Universal Media Studios was renamed to
Universal Television. NBC Entertainment named Paul Telegdy as president of both its alternative and reality TV group and NBC Entertainment, along the formation of Universal Television Alternative Studios by president Meredith Ahr in June 2016. These promotions are part of a push for NBC to create and distribute future reality TV shows. However, late night programming was removed from Teledgy's portfolio, which also included annual specials. On September 24, 2018, Bob Greenblatt left NBC Entertainment's chairman position and was replaced by George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy. With the reorganization of NBCUniversal in January 2019, Jeff Shell (currently chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group) added NBC Entertainment,
Telemundo Enterprises and many international channels to his portfolio, now as chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment. •
The Wall (NBC) with Glassman Media,
SpringHill Entertainment,
LeBron James and
Chris Hardwick; French version on C8 •
The Titan Games (2019) NBC, competition series with
Dwayne Johnson •
In Search Of... (
History) with exec producer and host Zachary Quinto •
Songland (2019) NBC, songwriting competition format •
Hollywood Game Night •
Making It Units •
NBC •
Cozi TV •
NBC LX NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations is a station holding division with two groups,
NBC Owned Television Stations and
Telemundo Station Group.
History In July 2013,
NBC Owned Television Stations and
Telemundo's O&Os stations merged to form a new division, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations under NBC TV Station president Valari Staab. With the January 7, 2016, announcement of the new owned and operated
NBC Boston station was that the new station would be cluster with the other Boston outlets,
New England Cable News and
WNEU (Telemundo Boston) under their president Mike St. Peter. In March 2016, NBCU announced the NBCUniversal Boston Media Center, a regional headquarters in Needham Crossing office park, bringing together the cluster from Newton and the NBC Sports Boston cable channel from Burlington together. Opened in January 2020, the center also came equip with a podcast production studio as mainstream media starts pushing into the podcast industry. In 2017, NBC announced that it was hiring people for
KNSD with the intention of launching a new Telemundo O&O station in San Diego, replacing
Tijuana, Mexico-licensed station
XHAS-TDT (whose affiliation expired at the end of June 2017). The new Telemundo affiliate, branded as "Telemundo 20", launched on July 1 on KNSD's digital 39.20 subchannel. Additionally, KNSD launched
TeleXitos, a Spanish equivalent to
Cozi TV, on channel 39.21 the same day. On September 12, 2017, NBCUniversal acquired
KUAN-LD from NRJ TV, LLC, the owner of
KSCI, for $650,000; the sale was completed on December 21, 2017. Concurrently, KUAN entered into a channel-sharing agreement with KNSD. This was done with the separate KUAN-LD transmitter ending service, and 39.20 and 39.21 becoming identified with KUAN-LD instead and re-numbered to KUAN's channel 48. On September 23, 2019, the station group launched its LX digital news brand for original content. LX was to expand with live-streaming channel and multicast over-the-air network in May 2020.
NBCUniversal Syndication Studios NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (formerly
NBC Enterprises,
Universal Domestic Television,
Studios USA Television Distribution LLC,
MCA TV and
NBCUniversal Television Distribution among other distributor incarnations) is the television distribution arm of NBCUniversal that distributes programs across the nation. DVD releases for most programs owned by the group are handled by
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment through Studio Distribution Services, while certain titles are licensed to other companies such as
Shout! Studios,
Kino Lorber, and Mill Creek Entertainment.
NBCUniversal Global Distribution NBCUniversal Global Distribution, also known as
NBCUniversal International Television or
NBCUniversal International Television Distribution (formerly
Universal Worldwide Television and
MCA TV International) is the worldwide television production/distribution arm of NBCUniversal, syndicating NBCUni's programs across the globe.
Universal Worldwide Television was formed in 1997 as a result of the break-up of
UIP Pay TV. Prior to NUIT's formation, for several years
MGM International Television Distribution handled worldwide distribution of shows from NBCUniversal. MCA TV International handled syndication of MCA TV's programs outside of the United States, but throughout 1987, MCA TV International, alongside
Paramount International Television had inked an agreement with Chinese Central Television to offer 100 drama hours, which represented, was the largest license to date, and making it the two Hollywood studios to provide suppliers for Chinese TV, supplanting the previous
CBS pact in 1984. In April 2019, it was announced that
Sky Vision would be folded into NBCUniversal Global Distribution, as a result of Comcast's takeover of
Sky. On October 1, Sky Vision officially merged with NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment }}
NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, formerly
NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios, is the
division of
NBCUniversal that oversees all of the conglomerate's non-sports & non-news
cable television channels.
History NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios In July 2008,
Universal Cable Productions was split from
Universal Media Studios (UMS) and placed into NBCUniversal's NBCU Cable Entertainment Group division. The unit was placed under the direction of a management team consisting of 5 executives. By April 2013, Comcast Entertainment Studios, or E! Studios, was renamed Wilshire Studios. Jeff Wachtel was transferred from his position as co-president of USA to head of content at Universal Cable Productions. With the resignation of E! President Suzanne Kolb in September 2014, NBCU Cable announced the formation of Lifestyle Network Group consisting of Bravo, Oxygen, E! Entertainment and Esquire Network. The Group was to be led by Frances Berwick, president of Bravo and Oxygen Media with Esquire Network president Adam Stotsky to take over as general manager of E! On April 14, 2014, Comcast purchased Lions Gate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment's stakes in
Fearnet, acquiring full ownership of the channel. Comcast plans to fold Fearnet into its existing horror- and thriller-focused network
Chiller (owned by the company's NBCUniversal Cable unit), although some of Fearnet's programming may be moved to
Syfy. Hammer ordered a reorganization that creates the Entertainment Networks group with
Chiller,
Cloo,
Syfy, and
USA Network by transferring two Syfy executives out and placing USA Network president Chris McCumber in charge of the group as president. Transferred
Syfy executives include the executive vice president of original content, who moved to the post of executive vice president of scripted content under the chief content officer of NBCU Cable, and the president of
Syfy and
Chiller, who moved to president of strategy and commercial growth at NBCU Cable.
Sprout was also added to Lifestyle Network. The group agreed to purchase a majority stake in
Craftsy digital network from equity firms in May 2017. Craftsy was renamed Bluprint with Craftsy.com become its a la carte classes and Craftsy Unlimited service becoming Bluprint, while adding additional lifestyle categories. In January 2019, NBCUniversal reorganized to make way for
their streaming service.
Bonnie Hammer was transferred to the new post of chairman at Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises for NBCUniversal, while the cable group was placed under the
NBCUniversal Broadcast, Cable, Sports and News group. In early 2019, Universal Cable Productions changed its name to Universal Content Productions in order to reflect the move into digital productions. Further restructuring placed the two cable networks in April 2020 under NBCU Television and Streaming. in advance of the planned spin-off of the company from Comcast.
NBCUniversal Cable units •
Bravo • Wilshire Studios, reality studios, formerly E! Studio
Former units •
Universal Content Productions (2008–2019) formerly Universal Cable Productions (until early 2019), then sold to TN Marketing in July 2020 •
G4 (2002–2014; 2021–2022), second G4 network operated by
Comcast Spectacor, later closed down on November 18, 2022 •
Cloo (2006–2017), closed down with most programming moved to Oxygen •
Universal Kids (2005–2025)
Transferred to Versant in 2025 •
Oxygen •
Syfy •
USA Network •
E! NBCUniversal Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises NBCUniversal Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises, also called
Peacock and Digital Enterprises, is a division of NBCUniversal that holds the streaming service and their digital networks and previously held a part of NBCUniversal's cable portfolio as well as
Telemundo.
History Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media was organized in 2006 in the wake of Comcast's NBCUniversal takeover and was headed by Lauren Zalaznick. Their cable channels were transferred to NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios in 2013 while
Telemundo and
Mun2 were moved to a new division called NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises and Content. The move also created the corporate-level position of executive vice president in charge of digital ventures for Zalaznick,
Digital Enterprises Lauren Zalaznick was appointed to head this division as executive vice president after her previous division was split into two, with most units being merged into NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios and becoming NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group and the rest becoming NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises and Content Evan Shapiro, the group's former pivot president, took over the unit in the new position of executive vice president at Digital Enterprises under Conde, the executive VP of NBCUniversal International Enterprises. NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises hired additional executives in preparation for the roles outside of its first direct-to-consumer services: Patricia Parra Hadden as senior vice president for marketing and Ben McLean for business affairs/development, content licensing, operations and strategy. In October 2015, Digital Enterprises announced
Seeso, a comedy-oriented
over-the-top subscription VOD channel, which became a private beta in December and launched in January launch. However, Digital Enterprises closed down Seeso in late 2017. Maggie McLean Suniewick was named president of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises in September 2016 when she was hired from her position as executive in charge of NBCUniversal's Symphony initiative. On June 19, 2017, Laura Lee began as executive VP of content, strategy and operations of the enterprise to oversee their recently purchased stake in
Snap, Buzz and
Vox Media.
Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises In a January 2019 NBCUniversal reorganization, Digital Enterprises was placed under Bonnie Hammer as chairman of NBCU Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises. The Digital Enterprises group was the initial core of this group, The streaming service was announced on September 17, 2019, as
Peacock, which is to be launched in April 2020. In a May 2020 reorganization, the division was placed under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. NBCUniversal Hispanic Group rolled out 1,000 hours of new programming for its two channels at
Upfronts in May 2015. They also launched CultureFirst, an advertising initiative that helps advertisers create a full plan to reach out to Latinos, and co-programming opportunities that allows advertisers to promote content across NBC channels. NBC Deportes, a dedicated Hispanic sports production unit, was also announced by Chairman Joe Uva and Chairman Mark Lazarus of NBC Sports Group. On October 12, 2015, NBCUniversal Hispanic Group was renamed NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises with Cesar Conde taking over as chairman from Joe Uva. Conde was already chairman of NBCUniversal International Enterprises. Uva would continue to oversee the move of NBC Deportes to the NBC Sports Group facility in
Stamford, Connecticut. In a January 2019 NBCUniversal reorganization, Telemundo Enterprises was placed under Jeff Shell, the chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment. In a May 2020 reorganization, the division was placed under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. At that time it was announced Conde would move over to head up NBCUniversal News Group as chairman.
Units •
Telemundo •
Universo •
TeleXitos ==Related units==