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The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York City's Rockefeller Center. It is now part of the media conglomerate NBC Universal, and supplies programming to more than 200 affiliated U.S. stations. NBC Universal is a unit of General Electric.

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The last U.S. network to legally abandon the name behind its acronym, in 2003 the corporate name was shrunk from "National Broadcasting Company, Inc.", as it had been from 1926, to NBC Universal, Inc. following the acquisition by GE of Universal Studios.

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Control of the network passed to GE in 1986 following the purchase of NBC's original parent, RCA. Since this acquisition, the President and CEO of NBC has been Bob Wright.

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Rockefeller Center: Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st street in New York. It is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, straddling both Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Today's Rockefeller Center is essentially a combination of two building complexes: the older Art-Deco ...

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