The flagship NBC network, once seen as the deal's albatross, has been on the turnaround.
Those talks began following an attempt to secure a similar deal with the NBC network, which failed.
The coasting comes courtesy of such unlikely ISPs as the town of LaGrange, Georgia, the NBC network and even Kmart.
But long-time media industry analyst Larry Gerbrandt says the entire NBC network has a lot of money riding on these games.
Also, Comcast is now more familiar with the NBC network, having managed operations for two years, and leading a surprisingly quick turnaround.
Now the NBC network has moved the show away from its plum 2130 BST slot and replaced it with a Whoopi Goldberg sitcom.
Four of those hours will be on the NBC flagship network, while the other seven will be hosted on the NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus).
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The ceremony was shown live in the US on the NBC network, with edited highlights to follow in the UK on the 5USA channel on Monday.
Least relevant to the rest of the company is the media arm: the NBC network, 13 TV stations, the CNBC and MSNBC cable channels and related Web sites.
Donald Trump 's success with The Apprentice set the trend in motion, and this week this wildly popular show has its finale on General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC network.
Changing the Picture: NBC and the Emergence of African-Americans on Television (February 6), a panel discussion moderated by Museum Chairman Herbert S. Schlosser, who was West Coast head of programming for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in the 1960s and was president of the NBC network and CEO of NBC in the 1970s.
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Taking a page from college basketball, NBC and the league spread out the post season schedule among its flagship over-the-air network, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus Network), CNBC and the NHL Network.
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"Nothing has the pace or the urgency of playoff hockey, " said Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports, which will show games on its broadcast network and cable channels NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus) and CNBC.
The sports media company consists of a unique array of broadcast television, cable television, radio and digital sports assets, including NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, 11 NBC Sports Regional Networks, NBC Sports Radio and all of their respective digital properties.
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Live content from NBC Sports Network will continue to be distributed through NBC Sports Live Extra on a TV Everywhere basis.
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As such, the acquisition of EPL games gives the upstart NBC Sports Network greater brand equity.
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The Comcast subsidiary re-branded Versus as the NBC Sports Network last year.
Losing two anchors in less than two years could upset the morning-news juggernaut, which is one of the few jewels at the NBC broadcast network.
While his counterpart at the NBC broadcast network, Benjamin Silverman, loves media attention, Gaspin is shy, unassuming and uneasy making speeches or otherwise calling attention to himself.
Under the new agreement, all postseason games televised by NBC and Versus (which will be re-branded NBC Sports Network at the Winter Classic) will be aired nationally.
The Rangers' win over Boston on Wednesday night was watched by 956, 000 viewers on NBC Sports Network, making it the most-watched NHL regular-season game on any cable station in 11 years.
The fun is, you get to see how the pro sports sausage is made, rather than filling time with another NBC Sports Network hunting show to see how the deer sausage is made.
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Honors were handed out by Brian Williams, anchor of the NBC broadcast network's Nightly News. (Minami, who has Korean heritage, wowed the crowd with traditional ethnic finery.) Against the best competition in the U.S., FORBES has won or been runner-up in this OPC category in four of the last six years.
The show, announced by TV network NBC in February, follows the Beckhams as they relocate to Los Angeles.
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The show - which sees its participants compete in business-oriented tasks - begins on 6 March on US network NBC.
The show has recently been snapped up by US network NBC - with Robinson in place to host the American version.
The film was nominated for an Oscar and was widely shown in America on NBC, the network that had turned it down.
Jordanian intelligence believed they had brought Humam al-Balawi over to their side and sent him to Afghanistan to infiltrate al-Qaeda, US network NBC says.
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