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Founded on August 2, 2004, NBCUniversal is a media conglomerate controlled by Comcast and based in New York City. Its name is a portmanteau of its flagship assets: NBC and Universal Pictures.

NBCUniversal owns the following assets

NBCUniversal Television and Streaming
  • NBC
  • NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment
    • Bravo — A female-targeting lifestyle network best known for the The Real Housewives and Top Chef franchises. Bravo was originally launched in 1980 as a network dedicated to fine arts-related programming.
    • E!
    • Oxygen — A female lifestyle and entertainment channel turned true crime hub, eventually succeeding the low-distributed Cloo network.
    • Syfy
    • Universal Kids
    • USA Network
  • NBCUniversal Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises
  • Universal Studios Group
  • NBCU Telemundo Enterprises
  • NBC Sports Group
    • Golf Channel
    • NBC Sports Regional Networks

NBCUniversal Film & Entertainment

Universal Destinations & Experiences

  • Universal Studios
    • Universal Studios Hollywood
    • Universal Orlando Resort
      • Universal Studios Florida
      • Universal's Islands of Adventure
      • Volcano Bay
      • Universal's Epic Universe (upcoming)
    • Universal Studios Japan
    • Universal Studios Singapore (a joint venture with Resorts World Sentosa)
    • Universal Beijing Resort
      • Universal Studios Beijing

Defunct/former assets

  • Amblimation
  • DreamWorks Television
  • FilmDistrict
  • G4TV (will be relaunched in 2021 under Comcast Spectacor, a sister company to NBCUniversal)
  • Gramercy Pictures
  • ITC Entertainment (shut down in 1999 after the sale of the library to Carlton/Granada/ITV)
  • Pacific Data Images - Also known as PDI/DreamWorks, this served as DreamWorks Animation's northern California branch. The studio was shut down in 2015 as part of a restructuring.
  • PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (1996-99 film and television library is owned by NBCUniversal. The company was later resurrected in 2017 as the film and television division of Universal Music Group, a wholly separate company owned by French conglomerate Vivendi that nevertheless still uses Universal branding)
  • PortAventura World (Held shares between 1997-2004. Continues to license characters to said park)
  • Savoy Pictures (library acquired by USA Films in 2002)
  • Sprout
  • The Weather Channel (formerly owned by a joint venture between NBCUniversal and two private equity firms, its TV assets were sold to Entertainment Studios while its non-TV assets were sold to IBM).
  • Wet 'n Wild Orlando (Operated from 1998-2016. Was demolished, then spiritually succeeded by Volcano Bay)

 
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