During the 1980s, it distributed both off-network reruns of shows like Kate & Allie and Gimme a Break!, as well as original syndication product like the animated action series Bionic Six (co-produced with TMS Entertainment), The Morton Downey Jr. Show (taped at then-MCA owned WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey), The Munsters Today (a revival of the Universal sitcom), and Pictionary, based on the popular board game. The new unit absorbed the domestic syndication unit of ITC Entertainment (acquired by PolyGram in 1995), including it's domestic sales president Matt Cooperstein. Two years later NBC broadcast its signature three-note chime for the first time as a way to present the station identification required by their broadcast license. [13], In 1999, USA Networks formed its own film and home media divisions when they acquired October Films and several production and distribution assets of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment for $200 million.[14].

[17] The unit also syndicated action hour series such as The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (based on the Miramax film with Brandon Lee. National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (NBC), major American commercial broadcasting company, since 2004 the television component of NBCUniversal, which is owned by the Comcast Corporation. [12] Among its assets were the USA Network and Sci-Fi cable channels along with series such as Law & Order. Universal would sell the ITC film and TV library to Carlton Communications, and the pre-1996 film library to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [19], By 2001, rumours began circulating about the closure of the division (and it's two series would have been sold off to another syndicator). [6] The Universal Family Network syndicated programming block was launched by the company in the fall of 1993 with a single weekly half hour show, Exosquad, as a counter to The Disney Afternoon.[7]. The most noteworthy included Leave It to Beaver, which ran for only one season on CBS before going to ABC from 1958 until 1963. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios. re-established in 2004, Both NBC Studios and the original Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Media Studios, formerly known as NBC Universal Television Studio. It primarily dealt with made-for-TV movies and series like Dream On that were made for cable networks like HBO. NBC Universal Television Studios was formed in 2004 from NBC Studios and Universal Network Television after NBC and Universal merged. During the early years of television, Revue was responsible for producing and/or distributing many television programs. [22], On July 21, 2009, Universal Content Productions formerly known renamed Universal Cable Productions was split off from UMS and placed into NBCUniversal's NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division.

Leave It to Beaver was produced first by George Gobel's Golmaco Productions, then by Kayro Productions on a back lot at Revue Studios from 1958 to 1963. In December 1958 MCA/Revue purchased Universal Studios's 367 acre backlot to produce television series, then leased it back to Universal for a million dollars a year for a decade.[1]. Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture. NBC Productions/NBC Studios. The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) studios in Los Angeles in 1951, The powers that be are taking away Jack Donaghy's microwave ovens. The Walt Disney Company, it's then owner at the time had passed on the series) and Total Recall: 2070, as well as the music variety program Motown Live.

Television would provide NBC with new realms to conquer. Almost from the start, however, legal troubles tangled NBC's corporate history. [16], The division's first project was the syndication of new episodes of Alliance Atlantis' Due South, distributing 22 new episodes for primetime or weekend afternoon slots. [24] In October 2019, Universal Television was transferred from NBC Entertainment to NBCUniversal Televisionn and Streaming. Following its merger with Decca Records, the then-parent of Universal Pictures, the studio backlot name was changed back to Universal. NBC was late to the reality-TV trend, and replacement shows for Seinfeld and Friends (retired in 1998 and 2004, respectively) never lived up to expectations. NBC is also associated with the visual of a peacock.

[10] Universal sold its stake in BGE in 1999 and BGE was renamed as Brad Grey Television, Universal continued to co-produce Just Shoot Me! As an official part of the Universal Pictures library, they are part of the company's television unit, Universal Television. Throughout its history the NBC network has been identifiable by prominent audio and visual trademarks. During the 1970s and 1980s, Uni TV produced shows such as Baretta, The Rockford Files, Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice, The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Knight Rider, The A-Team, Simon & Simon and Magnum, P.I., which received critical acclaim and several TV movie spin-offs after their cancellations. [15] USA Networks is currently known as IAC. In addition to its television network, NBC's media assets include CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo and the Spanish-language network Telemundo.

Its potential plans? Around the same time, Universal was acquired by Joseph A. Seagram and Sons and later acquired the Multimedia Entertainment and USA Network. In 1996, MCA TV was renamed Universal Television Enterprises; at this time they also assumed production and distribution of several daytime talk shows previously produced by Multimedia Entertainment (which Universal had acquired), including The Jerry Springer Show. In addition, Revue also made Alan Hale Jr.'s Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952–1953) and all three of Rod Cameron's syndicated series, City Detective (1953–1955), State Trooper (1956–1959), and Coronado 9 (1960–1961) and the Bill Williams western series, The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1955). In 2001, Vivendi acquired USA's entertainment assets for an estimated $10.3 billion. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios. MCA bought the Universal Studios lot in 1958 and was renamed Revue Studios. Following this, PolyGram TV was renamed Universal Worldwide Television, and in the fall of that year. In 2002, Studio USA was renamed to USA Cable Entertainment but it was only used on USA Network shows. NBC (The National Broadcasting Company) is a diverse international media company, based in the United States. [25], PolyGram Television/Universal Worldwide Television, Television series by Universal Television, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), "NBCU unit trades 'television' for 'media, "New Faces, Familiar Ones Vie For Kids Audience", "Seagram Buys USA Networks for $1.7 Billion", "U may turn on its TV with Brillstein Grey", "Universal Sells Most of Its TV Assets to Diller", "Barry Diller Gets $200M October Surprise", "Vivendi seals USA Networks deal - Dec. 17, 2001", "Universal Worldwide plans to stay the syndie course", "Universal Media Studios Gets New Heads Of Drama, Comedy & Casting And New Name", "NBCUniversal Shakeup: Bonnie Hammer to Head Studios, Paul Telegdy Goes Solo at NBC", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Television&oldid=984839442, Television production companies of the United States, Mass media companies based in New York City, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 12:21. NBCSports.com provides up-to-the-minute coverage of sports, including live streaming events, on-demand video and text-based content. UWT launched a successful realty strip, Blind Date (which gained a sister program from the same producers, The 5th Wheel). Another western produced by Revue and starring Audie Murphy was Whispering Smith (NBC, 1959/61), based on the 1948 Alan Ladd movie of the same name. NBC Productions was founded in 1947 by RCA (NBC's former parent company). In 1927 the West Coast got its own version of the Red and Blue with the creation of the Orange and Gold networks, which largely showed the same programs. Its Sunday-morning stalwart Meet the Press was originally a radio program when it was founded in 1947. It produced Bachelor Father (1957–1962), for "Bachelor Productions", Edmond O'Brien's syndicated crime film Johnny Midnight, based on a fictitious New York City actor-turned-private investigator. Revue Productions (later known as Revue Studios) was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live radio shows and also produced "Stage Door Canteen" live events for the United Service Organizations (USO) during World War II. This page was last modified on 21 September 2020, at 20:48.

NBC was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network, founded in New York City in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (a subsidiary of General Electric) as a ploy to sell radios. (See the top 10 post–Saturday Night Live careers. [4] MCA TV and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, a joint venture created for the sale of advertising for their existing syndicated programs in September 1989.