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Broadcast Television
Our Broadcast Television segment operates the NBC and Telemundo broadcast television networks, which together serve
audiences and advertisers in all 50 states. Our Broadcast Television segment also includes our owned NBC and Telemundo local
broadcast television stations and our broadcast television production operations. We also own various digital media properties,
which primarily consist of brand
-aligned websites.
Our Broadcast Television segment generates revenue primarily from the sale of advertising, from content licensing and from fees
received under retransmission consent agreements. Advertising revenue is generated from the sale of advertising time on our
broadcast networks, owned local television stations and related digital media properties. Content licensing revenue is generated
from the licensing of our owned programming in the United States and internationally, including to cable and broadcast networks
and to digital distributors. Our owned local television stations receive fees from multichannel video providers in exchange for
retransmission consent that allows carriage of the stations’
signals. We also receive a portion of the retransmission fees received
by our NBC affiliated broadcast television stations. We expect these fees to continue to increase in the future as we, as well as our
NBC affiliated broadcast television stations, renegotiate distribution agreements with multichannel video providers. We also
generate revenue from the sale of our owned programming on standard-definition DVDs and Blu ray discs (together, “DVDs”)
and
through other online digital distributors such as iTunes.
NBC Network
The NBC network distributes more than 5,000 hours of entertainment, news and sports programming annually, and its programs
reach viewers in virtually all U.S. television households through more than 200 affiliated stations across the United States, including
our 10 NBC owned local television stations. The NBC network develops a broad range of entertainment, news and sports content
and also airs a variety of special-events programming. The NBC network’
s television library consists of rights of varying nature to
more than 100,000 episodes of popular television content, including current and classic titles, unscripted programming, sports,
news, long-form and short-
form programming, and locally produced programming from around the world. In addition, the NBC
network operates various websites that extend its brands and content online.
The NBC network produces its own programs or acquires the rights to programming from third parties. NBCUniversal has various
contractual commitments for the licensing of rights to multiyear programming, primarily sports programming. Our most significant
sports programming commitments include an agreement with the NFL to produce and broadcast a specified number of regular
season and playoff games, including Sunday Night Football on NBC through the 2022-
23 season and the 2015, 2018 and 2021
Super Bowl games. In addition, the NBC network owns the U.S. broadcast rights for the summer and winter Olympic Games
through 2020. We also have broadcast rights to a specified number of NHL games through the 2020-
21 season, U.S. television
rights to English Premier League soccer through the 2015-
16 season, certain PGA TOUR golf events through 2021 and certain
NASCAR events through 2024. NBCUniversal’
s sports programming agreements also include rights to distribute content on our
national cable networks, including NBC Sports Network and Golf Channel, on our regional sports networks where applicable, and
also online, including through mobile apps available for smartphones and tablets.
Our broadcast television production operations develop and produce original content, including scripted and unscripted series and
talk shows. This original content is licensed to broadcast networks, cable networks and local broadcast television stations owned by
us and third parties, as well as to digital distributors, and is sold in DVD format, both in the United States and internationally. We
also produce “first-run”
syndicated shows, which are programs for initial exhibition on local television stations in the United States,
on a market-by-
market basis, without prior exhibition on a network. We currently distribute some of our television programs after
their initial exhibition, as well as older television programs from our library, to local broadcast television stations and cable networks
in the off-network syndication market.
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