NBC Owned Television Stations#Station Venture Holdings

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The NBC television network's owned-and-operated television stations group was initially formed by as "NBC Television Stations Division (TVSD)".

WNBT (now known as WNBC) in New York City, the oldest continuously operating commercial television station in the United States, first came on the air on July 1, 1941.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/tv_programs_1941/|title=Television Programs in 1941|date=November 19, 2008|publisher=TV Obscurities|access-date=July 30, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807200849/http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/tv_programs_1941/|archive-date=August 7, 2011}}

NBC then established four other owned-and-operated stations: WNBW (now WRC-TV) in Washington, D.C. in 1947, WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) in Chicago and WNBK (now WKYC) in Cleveland in 1948, and KNBH (now KNBC) in Los Angeles in 1949. In May 1955, NBC agreed to trade WNBK and WTAM-AM-FM to Westinghouse in return for KYW radio and WPTZ television in Philadelphia."NBC, WBC trade properties in Cleveland, Philadelphia." Broadcasting, May 23, 1955, pp. 65–66, 68. [https://www.webcitation.org/6b1NvcK23?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0065.pdf]{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0066.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1NvZg0o?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0066.pdf |archive-date=August 24, 2015 |access-date=August 6, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0068.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1Nvb4kP?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-05-23-BC-OCR-Page-0068.pdf |archive-date=August 24, 2015 |access-date=August 6, 2015}} Although Cleveland was a top-10 television and radio market at the time, NBC had long wanted to "trade up" its holdings to a larger market. Also, Philadelphia was the largest market in which it did not own a station. The swap became official on January 22, 1956, as NBC moved its operations (including much of its Cleveland staff) to Philadelphia, with WPTZ becoming WRCV-TV.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-01-30-BC-OCR-Page-0059.pdf "NBC, Westinghouse complete exchange."] {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1NvcJnI?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-01-30-BC-OCR-Page-0059.pdf |date=August 24, 2015 }} Broadcasting, January 30, 1956, pg. 59. Westinghouse took over the WNBK/WTAM operation and changed its call letters to KYW-AM-FM-TV on February 13, 1956.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-02-13-BC-OCR-Page-0098.pdf "NBC, WBC outlets change calls today."] {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1Nvfj5F?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-02-13-BC-OCR-Page-0098.pdf |date=August 24, 2015 }} Broadcasting, February 13, 1956, pp. 98. NBC re-assumed control of the Cleveland stations on June 19, 1965. Instead of restoring the previous WNBK and WTAM identities, the stations' new call letters became WKYC-AM-FM-TV, mostly as a nod to Westinghouse's stewardship of the stations.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/65-OCR/1965-06-14-BC-OCR-Page-0083.pdf "The great swap takes place June 19; Westinghouse, NBC return to original properties."] {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1Nvz7YO?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/65-OCR/1965-06-14-BC-OCR-Page-0083.pdf |date=August 24, 2015 }} Broadcasting, June 14, 1965, pg. 83. NBC would later sell off the WKYC radio stations in 1972,[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/72-OCR/1972-01-17-BC-OCR-Page-0038.pdf "First NBC radio properties go."] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/6b1Nvz8HL?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/72-OCR/1972-01-17-BC-OCR-Page-0038.pdf |date=August 24, 2015 }} Broadcasting, January 17, 1972, pg. 38. 51 percent of WKYC-TV in 1990,"NBC selling 51% of WKYC-TV to Multimedia for $65 million." Broadcasting, March 19, 1990, pg. 28. and then the remaining 49 percent in 1999.

With the FCC encouraging the networks to expand their owned-and-operated holdings to include UHF stations, NBC purchased WBUF in Buffalo, New York, in 1955 and WKNB (now WVIT) in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1956.{{cite news|title=Power plays take shape in television networking. |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/1955-01-10-BC-OCR-Page-0027.pdf |periodical=Broadcasting – Telecasting |page=27 |date=January 10, 1955 |access-date=December 29, 2018}}{{cite news|title=NBC gets green light on New Britain buy. |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/56-OCR/1956-12-17-BC-OCR-Page-0081.pdf |periodical=Broadcasting – Telecasting |page=81 |date=December 17, 1956 |access-date=December 29, 2018}} The network then renamed WKNB to WNBC (for New Britain, Connecticut) in 1957.{{cite news|title=NBC rechristens WKNB-TV to WNBC(TV) West Hartford. |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/57-OCR/1957-01-14-BC-OCR-Page-0100.pdf |periodical=Broadcasting – Telecasting |page=100 |date=January 14, 1957 |access-date=December 29, 2018}}{{cite web|title=WNBC (TV) advertisement |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/57-OCR/1957-01-14-BC-OCR-Page-0077.pdf |periodical=Broadcasting – Telecasting |page=77 |date=January 14, 1957 |access-date=December 29, 2018 }} But with UHF being not viable for broadcasting at the time (due to the fact that most television sets of the time were not equipped with UHF tuners), NBC shut down WBUF in 1958 and then sold the New Britain station in 1959."NBC sells WNBC (TV) to Scheftel group." Broadcasting, June 29, 1959, pp. 73–74. Accessed December 30, 2018. [https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-06-29-BC-OCR-Page-0073.pdf] [https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-06-29-BC-OCR-Page-0074.pdf]"Changing Hands." Broadcasting, September 28, 1959, pp. 98–100. Accessed December 30, 2018. [https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-09-28-BC-OCR-Page-0100.pdf] [https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-09-28-BC-OCR-Page-0102.pdf] NBC would then re-purchase the station in New Britain, the present-day WVIT, in 1997.{{cite news|last=McClellan|first=Steve|title=NBC, Paramount swap stations.|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/97-OCR/BC-1997-08-04-OCR-Page-0014.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting and Cable|page=12|date=August 4, 1997|access-date=January 5, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1997-12-06-9712060245-story.html|title=Managers, reporter fired in WVIT-TV shakeup|last=Keveney|first=Bill|work=Hartford Courant|access-date=November 24, 2018|language=en-US}}

General Electric bought NBC in 1986, resulting in GE's station in Denver, KCNC-TV, becoming part of NBC's owned-and-operated stations group. One year later, NBC won a bidding war to acquire WTVJ, the then-CBS affiliate in Miami.[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-01-17/news/8701040387_1_channel-4-s-nbc-stations NBC To Buy Miami's Channel 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606153625/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-01-17/news/8701040387_1_channel-4-s-nbc-stations |date=June 6, 2013 }}, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 17, 1987. NBC had been unhappy with its longtime affiliate WSVN for heavily preempting the network's daytime lineup. However, both WTVJ's and WSVN's respective affiliation contracts with CBS and NBC did not expire until December 31, 1988. As a result, NBC faced the prospect of having to run WTVJ as a CBS affiliate for over a year. This did not sit well with either NBC or CBS, and both approached WSVN's parent Sunbeam Television about ending the station's NBC affiliation contract early. However, Sunbeam balked because they did not want to lose NBC's strong lineup of sports programming that year, including the 1988 Summer Olympics. In the aftermath, WTVJ became an NBC owned-and-operated television station, CBS took over ownership of WCIX (now WFOR-TV),{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/09/business/the-media-business-cbs-to-buy-tv-station-in-miami.html | work=The New York Times | title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; CBS to Buy TV Station In Miami | date=August 9, 1988}} and WSVN took over the Fox affiliation from WCIX. Also in 1987, General Electric transferred both KCNC-TV and WTVJ from General Electric Property Management to NBC itself, becoming an owned-and-operated TV station.{{Cite news|date=November 16, 1987|title=Coming home to NBC|work=Broadcasting|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/87-OCR/BC-1987-11-16-OCR-Page-0152.pdf|access-date=August 28, 2021}}

In 1994, NBC took over majority control of KUTV in Salt Lake City.Pierce, Scott D. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140204033212/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/370135/NBC-BUYS-88-INTEREST-IN-SL-TELEVISION-AFFILIATE.html?pg=all NBC buys 88% interest in S.L. Television Affiliate.] Deseret News (August 16, 1994). That same year, the Fox Broadcasting Company agreed to a multi-year, multi-station affiliation deal with New World Communications, resulting in most of New World's stations switching to Fox. This set off the 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, a chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. In Philadelphia, Westinghouse Broadcasting's affiliate deal with CBS resulted in a three-way transaction between Westinghouse, CBS, and NBC in 1995. Westinghouse's Philadelphia station KYW-TV switched from NBC to CBS. CBS traded its previous Philadelphia station, WCAU-TV, to NBC in return for KCNC in Denver and KUTV in Salt Lake City, while KUSA and KSL-TV affiliated with NBC. The swap in Philadelphia was delayed when CBS discovered it would face a massive capital gains tax bill if it sold WCAU to NBC outright.{{cite web|title=From the official archives of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia|url=http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/kenmatz.html|access-date=September 2, 2012}}

In 1996, NBC bought the broadcasting holdings of The Outlet Company, bringing WCMH in Columbus, Ohio, WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, and WNCN in Goldsboro, North Carolina into the fold. NBC also made a 1996 deal with New World to acquire KNSD in San Diego and WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.

In 1997, NBC and LIN Television Corporation formed Station Venture Holdings with LIN's KXAS in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and NBC's KNSD.{{cite news|last=Myerson|first=Allen R.|title=Hicks, Muse, Aided by NBC, Sweetens Lin Television Bid|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/23/business/the-media-business-hicks-muse-aided-by-nbc-sweetens-lin-television-bid.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 23, 1997 |access-date=February 17, 2013}} As part of the deal, LIN sold a controlling interest in KXAS to NBC, and NBC contributed KNSD to the resulting partnership.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, NBC had long sought to buy its affiliate KRON from the deYoung family, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle, but the deYoungs turned down NBC's offers each time. In 1999, the deYoung family announced the liquidation of their assets,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Chronicle-board-puts-paper-KRON-TV-other-2924897.php|title=Chronicle board puts paper, KRON-TV, other properties up for sale|last=Kershner|first=Vlae|date=June 16, 1999|website=SFGate|access-date=April 6, 2020}} and thus the network jumped into the bidding war for KRON. NBC was seen as the frontrunner, but it was outbid at the last minute by Young Broadcasting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/823-Million-Purchase-Of-KRON-TV-Young-3198385.php|title=$823 Million Purchase Of KRON-TV / Young Broadcasting outbids media giants|last=Fost|first=Dan|date=November 16, 1999|website=SFGate|access-date=April 6, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-17-fi-34449-story.html|title=KCAL's Owner Outbids NBC for S.F.'s Leading TV Station|last=Hofmeister|first=Sallie|date=November 16, 1999|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=April 6, 2020}} NBC president and chief executive officer Bob Wright had previously warned that if NBC did not succeed in buying KRON, it would require any prospective buyer to uphold specific terms if it wanted to retain the NBC affiliation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/NBC-Tells-KRON-Bidders-Who-s-Boss-2900935.php|title=NBC Tells KRON Bidders Who's Boss|last=Carman|first=John|date=October 27, 1999|website=SFGate|access-date=April 6, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/NBC-offers-to-buy-KRON-3060010.php|title=NBC offers to buy KRON|last=Hatfield|first=Larry D.|date=November 3, 1999|website=SFGate|access-date=April 6, 2020}} After Young won the bidding, NBC demanded yearly payments of $10 million from Young, a form of reverse compensation, instead of the then-normal mode of networks paying their affiliates.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Battle-for-Control-At-Channel-4-NBC-puts-2804297.php|title=Battle for Control At Channel 4 / NBC puts conditions on renewing deal with KRON's future owner|last1=Sinton|first1=Peter|last2=Carman|first2=John|date=February 10, 2000|website=SFGate|access-date=April 6, 2020|last3=Writers|first3=Chronicle Staff}} Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew KRON's affiliation contract, which was set to expire at the beginning of 2002. KNTV then approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually to become the network's affiliate.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131106074937/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-59555162.html NBC Drops Television Channel in Bay Area, Calif., for San Jose Station], Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February 18, 2000. NBC would then buy KNTV outright in December 2001 just before KRON's affiliation ended.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/NBC-buys-KNTV-cuts-ties-to-KRON-Deal-affirms-2838310.php|title=NBC buys KNTV, cuts ties to KRON / Deal affirms Jan. 1 switch|last=Goodman|first=Tim|date=December 18, 2001|work=SFGate|access-date=October 31, 2014}}

In 2004, Vivendi Universal Entertainment (a division of the French company Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi), decided to sell an 80% stake to NBC's parent company, General Electric. The sale and resulting merger formed NBC Universal. The new company was 80% owned by GE, and 20% owned by Vivendi.{{cite web|url=http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/IMG/pdf/15_NBCUClosing_130504.pdf|title=Overview of NBC Universal Merger|last=Levy|first=Jean-Bernard|date=May 13, 2004|website=Vivendi Universal|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118072633/http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/IMG/pdf/15_NBCUClosing_130504.pdf|archive-date=November 18, 2008|access-date=December 24, 2009}} The television divisions of NBC and Universal Television were combined to form NBC Universal Television.

In 2006, NBC Universal sold four of its smaller-market owned-and-operated stations (WVTM, WNCN, WCMH, and WJAR) to Media General.{{cite news|title=NBC Universal begins to sell TV stations|url=http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20060111/NEWS/601110338|newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=January 11, 2006}}{{cite news | title=Triangle's NBC affiliate station to be sold | date=April 6, 2006 | publisher=Raleigh News & Observer | url=http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/425868.html }}{{cite web|url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2006/june26_06.htm|title=Media General Completes Purchase of Four NBC Television Stations|date=June 26, 2006|publisher=Media General|type=Press Release|access-date=June 14, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905193051/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2006/june26_06.htm|archive-date=September 5, 2012|url-status=dead}}

In November 2007, TVSD changed its name to NBC Local Media.

In March 2008, Local Media decided to focus on growing websites and the top ten market stations, placing WTVJ in Miami and WVIT in Hartford up for sale.{{cite news|last=Greppi|first=Michele|title=NBC Puts Two Owned Stations on Block|url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/03/nbc_puts_2_owned_stations_on_b.php|newspaper=TV Week|date=March 19, 2008|access-date=August 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923014233/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/03/nbc_puts_2_owned_stations_on_b.php|archive-date=September 23, 2013|url-status=dead}} Post-Newsweek Stations agreed to buy WTVJ,{{cite web|url=http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/07/28/daily.3/|title=NBC Nets $205 Million for WTVJ Miami|author=Harry A Jessell|work=tvnewsday.com}} which would have created a duopoly between WTVJ and Post-Newsweek-owned WPLG. However, FCC ownership rules prohibited the ownership of two of the four highest-rated television stations in a single market in terms of overall audience share. With the lack of FCC approval and the poor economic conditions at the time, the WTVJ sale was canceled.{{cite news|url=http://www.nbc6.net/news/18348386/detail.html|title=Sale Of WTVJ To The Washington Post Company Terminated|date=December 23, 2008|work=NBC6.net|access-date=December 24, 2008}} WVIT also remained unsold.{{cite news|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/nbcs-wtvj-sale-washington-post-co-109662|title=NBC's WTVJ Sale to Washington Post Co. Is Off|date=December 23, 2008|work=nexttv.com|access-date=June 28, 2020}}

LXTV was acquired in January 2008 by Local Media{{cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Caroline|title=NBC division acquires Web video site LX.tv|work=CNET |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9859414-36.html|access-date=August 12, 2011}} followed in March by the purchase of Skycastle Entertainment, Local Media's former outside sales and marketing firm.{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Michael|title=NBC Local Media Acquires Marketing Outfit Skycastle Entertainment|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/98659-NBC_Local_Media_Acquires_Marketing_Outfit_Skycastle_Entertainment.php |newspaper=Broadcasting & Cable |date=March 5, 2008 |access-date=August 24, 2012}} After NBC Weather Plus was shut down in late 2008, WNBC launched a replacement programming of local information, news and livestyle as NBC New York Nonstop in March 2009 using LXTV programs.{{cite news|last=Whitney|first=Daisy|title=NBC Goes 'Nonstop' on Subchannel|url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/nbc_goes_nonstop_on_subchannel.php |newspaper=tvweek.com |date=March 2009 |access-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713081459/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/nbc_goes_nonstop_on_subchannel.php|archive-date=July 13, 2012|url-status=dead}} In January 2009, Local Media and Fox Television Stations set up a local news sharing service starting with their Philadelphia stations after testing since the summer of 2008. Footage will be made available to other local media.{{cite news|last=Greppi|first=Michele|title=Fox, NBC Stations Form Local News Service|url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/fox_nbc_stations_form_local_ne.php |newspaper=TV Week.com |date=November 2008 |access-date=August 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119232847/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/fox_nbc_stations_form_local_ne.php|archive-date=November 19, 2012|url-status=dead}} On July 29, 2009, NBC Local Integrated Media replaced the standard station extension websites with city centric websites using nbccity.com web addresses.{{cite news|last=Bachman|first=Katy|title=NBC Local Launches 10 City Sites|url=http://www.adweek.com/news/television/nbc-local-launches-10-city-sites-113019 |newspaper=Ad Week.com |date=July 29, 2009 |access-date=August 20, 2012}}

In February 2010, the NBC stations launched a new website, theFeast.com, a restaurant news, blog and aggregate critic feature.{{cite news|last=Kludt|first=Amanda|title=NBC Launches Feast, a Food Blog and Meta Data Site|url=http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/02/nbc_launches_feast_a_food_blog_and_meta_data_site.php |newspaper=Eater.com |date=February 18, 2010 |access-date=August 23, 2012}} Additional vertical websites were also launched including The Goods and The 20. Stations are encouraged by Local Media to develop their own specialized websites. The 20 is for the top special interest articles and the Goods is a group buying website launched in May.{{cite news|last=Krasilovsky |first=Peter |title=NBC's Sean Monzet: NBC O&O Sites Focus on Verticals, Social and Hyperlocal |url=http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2011/06/02/nbcs-sean-monzet-nbc-oo-sites-focus-on-verticals-social-and-hyperlocal/ |newspaper=Local Media Watch |date=June 2, 2011 |access-date=August 23, 2012}}

In late 2010 and early 2011, eight more NBC O&O stations adopted the Nonstop digital subchannel format including the three California as one network. Each stations' Nonstop subchannel has eight hours of local programming along with core programming from affiliated production companies, LXTV: Talk Stoop, First Look and Open House.{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Michael|title=Exclusive: NBC Local Media Sets 'Nonstop' Launch Dates |url =http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/458817-Exclusive_NBC_Local_Media_Sets_Nonstop_Launch_Dates.php |newspaper= Broadcasting & Cable |date=October 21, 2010 |access-date=July 21, 2012}}

In Summer 2011, the company started to sell national advertising on behalf of affiliated cable channel, New England Cable News (NECN).{{cite news|last=Rubino|first=Lindsay|title=NBC Owned Stations, Comcast Sports Group Strike Ad Sales Partnership |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/483199-NBC_Owned_Stations_Comcast_Sports_Group_Strike_Ad_Sales_Partnership.php |newspaper=Broadcasting & Cable |date=April 16, 2012 |access-date=August 21, 2012}} In June, Local Media's new president. Valari Staab. renamed the company to NBC Owned Television Stations (NBCOTS).{{cite news|last=Jessell|first=Harry A.|title=It's Now 'NBC Owned Television Stations'|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/51957/its-now-nbc-owned-television-stations |newspaper=TV News Check.com |date=June 17, 2011 |access-date=August 20, 2012}}

On November 3, 2011, NBCOTS announced that its seven local Nonstop subchannels would become a single national network, Nonstop Network. The Network will also add its stations that currently do not have a Nonstop subchannel and beyond to other markets.{{cite news|title=NBC Reinvents Nonstop As National Diginet|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/55187/nbc-reinvents-nonstop-as-national-diginet |publisher=TVNewsCheck |date=November 3, 2011 |access-date=July 21, 2012}} An NBC executive indicated that the independent formatted Nonstop channels were doing well but needed separate 24/7 programming. The Network will have daytime retro reruns and evening lifestyle shows. Local stations will be able to pre-empt the national programming. By July 2012, NBC was also considering renaming the Network to "Bob TV" or some other name.{{cite news|title=Bob TV? NBCU Rolls Local News Channels Into New National Network|url=http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/bob-tv-nbcu-rolls-local-news-channels-new-national-network-47351 |newspaper=The Wrap News |date=July 11, 2012 |access-date=July 21, 2012}}

With Comcast purchasing controlling interest from GE of NBCUniversal in 2011, NBC stations were required by the Federal Communications Commission to develop partnership agreements with nonprofit news organizations. TheFeast website was transferred to NBCU affiliate DailyCandy.com in November.{{cite news|last=Caskey|first=Melissa|title=The Feast: From NBC to DailyCandy|url=http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/11/the_feast_daily_candy.php |newspaper=LA Weekly |date=November 8, 2011 |access-date=August 23, 2012}} In December, four NBC stations indicated their non-profit news partners with the partnership modeled after KNSD and Voice of San Diego's preexisting one.{{cite news|last1=Eggerton|first1=John|title=NBC-Owned TV Stations Select Non-Profit Content Partners|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/nbc-owned-tv-stations-select-non-profit-content-partners/43204 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |publisher=NewBay Media |date=December 6, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2016}}

With the success of the NECN advertising partnership in April 2012, the division and the Comcast Sports Group extended the partnership nationwide with four additional markets where there are both a Comcast SportsNet channel and an NBC-owned station (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, and Philadelphia). On October 24, 2012, NBCOTS announced it will relaunch the NBC Nonstop network as Cozi TV, which will feature classic TV shows, movies and, original programming.{{cite news|last=Jessell|first=Harry A.|title=It's Official: NBC Stations Getting Cozi|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/63070/its-official-nbc-stations-getting-cozi |newspaper=TVNewsCheck |date=October 24, 2012 |access-date=October 25, 2012}}

In February 2013, LIN Media pulled out of its Station Venture Operations joint venture with NBCUniversal as part of a corporate reorganization, giving NBCUniversal 100% ownership of the venture's two stations, KNSD and KXAS-TV.{{cite web|title=LIN exits NBC joint venture, plans reorg|date=February 13, 2013 |url=http://rbr.com/lin-exits-nbc-joint-venture-plans-reorg/|publisher=RBR.com|access-date=February 13, 2013}}

In July 2013, NBCOTS and Telemundo's owned-and-operated station group were brought together under a newly formed division called NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, headed by NBC TV Station president Valari Staab, and NECN was transferred into NBC Stations.{{cite news |title= NBC's Owned Stations Reorganize |url= http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/494650-NBC_s_Owned_Stations_Reorganize.php |work=Broadcasting & Cable |access-date= August 5, 2013}} In 2014, WKAQ, the Telemundo-owned station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, began airing a simulcast of New York City sister station WNBC on one of its digital sub-channels with the branding of NBC Puerto Rico,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvboricuausa.com/2013/12/en-el-2014-lo-que-trae-nbc-puerto-rico.html|title=En el 2014: Lo que trae NBC Puerto Rico|date=December 27, 2013}} making WKAQ also a de facto NBC-owned station (under NBCUniversal's corporate structure, WKAQ remains as part of the Telemundo-owned stations group instead of NBCOTS).

With four NBC-owned stations already airing 4 p.m. newscasts, WNBC, KNBC, WTVJ, and WVIT also added 4 p.m. newscasts in May 2016.{{cite news|last1=Eck|first1=Kevin|title=4 NBC Stations to Launch Afternoon Newscast|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/4-nbc-stations-to-launch-afternoon-newscast/161020 |work=TV Spy |publisher=Adweek Network |date=January 4, 2016 |access-date=September 12, 2016}} {{as of|2020}}, KNTV is the only NBC-owned station that does not have its own 4 p.m. news; however, it added a 4:30 p.m. newscast in September 2022.

On January 7, 2016, NBCOTS announced that it would launch an NBC-owned station in Boston, NBC Boston, on January 1, 2017, replacing affiliate WHDH.{{cite web|title=NBCU Launching NBC O&O in Boston Next Year|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/nbcu-launching-nbc-oo-boston-next-year/146769|website=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 7, 2016 |access-date=January 7, 2016}} It was originally rumored that NBC would air primary on a WNEU channel, however on November 1, it was announced that NBC would use Boston-area translator WBTS-LD (acquired from WNEU's former operator ZGS Communications), with WNEU airing NBC Boston on its DT2 channel for the New Hampshire side of the DMA.{{cite web|title=NBC Boston Launches Jan. 1 on Channel 10 on Most Providers|url=http://www.necn.com/news/business/NBC-Boston-Launches-January-1-on-Channel-10-on-Most-Providers-399485161.html|website=NECN|date=November 2016 |publisher=NBCUniversal Media LLC|access-date=November 2, 2016}}{{cite web|title=NBC's New Boston O&O, WBTS, Sets Lineup|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/98933/nbcs-new-boston-oo-wbts-sets-lineup|website=TVNewsCheck|date=November 2016 |access-date=November 2, 2016}}{{cite web|title=Where you can find the new NBC Boston on your remote|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/10/31/where-you-can-find-new-nbc-boston-your-remote/zRfa8wxVs5e9va8OMK7gQL/story.html|website=Boston Globe|access-date=November 2, 2016}} After the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction, NBCOTS purchased the former WYCN-CD license which now had channel-sharing rights with WGBX yielding strong coverage in the Boston market, then reshuffled programming across NBCOTS and Telemundo Station Group assets in eastern New England, leaving NBC programming on the new WBTS-CD and returning the WNEU and WYCN-LD licenses primarily to Spanish-language programming.{{cite news |last1=Jacobson |first1=Adam |date=October 30, 2017 |title=NBC Boston Scores A Channel-Sharing Agreement |work=Radio and Television Business Report |url=https://www.rbr.com/nbc-boston-scores-a-channel-sharing-agreement/ |access-date=February 13, 2020}}{{cite news |date=October 31, 2017 |title=Station Trading Roundup: 5 Deals, $25.9M |language=en |work=TV News Check |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/article/108526/station-trading-roundup-5-deals-25-9m/ |access-date=February 13, 2020}}

• Stations are listed in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
• Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by NBC.

{{Infobox company

| name = Station Venture Holdings, LLC

| type = Joint venture

| founded = {{start date and age|1997}}

| defunct = {{End date and age|2013|02}}

| hq_location_city = San Diego, California

| industry = Broadcast television

| owners = NBC (79.62%)
LIN Television Corporation (20.38%)

| divisions = Station Venture Operations, LP
KNSD
KXAS-TV
WYCN-LD (post-joint venture)

| footnotes =

}}

Station Venture Holdings, LLC was a joint venture between NBC and LIN Television Corporation{{cite news|last=Nesi|first=Ted|title=LIN TV mulls layoffs amid sales slump|url=http://www.pbn.com/LIN-TV-mulls-layoffs-amid-sales-slump,42196 |newspaper=Providence Business News |date=May 11, 2009 |access-date=August 21, 2012}} that operated two NBC-affiliated television stations, KNSD and KXAS-TV.{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Station Venture Operations Lp|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=6710237|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102050432/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=6710237|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013|work=Company profiles|publisher=Business Week|access-date=August 21, 2012}} These stations under the joint venture were still considered owned-and-operated stations, as NBC held a majority stake in the venture.{{cite web | url=http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/CMCSA/1750045147x0xS1193125-12-74400/902739/filing.pdf | title=NBCUniversal 2011Annual Report/ 10K | publisher=NBCUniversal | access-date=November 15, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728211346/http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/CMCSA/1750045147x0xS1193125-12-74400/902739/filing.pdf | archive-date=July 28, 2014 | url-status=dead }} WBTS-LD (now Telemundo station WYCN-LD) was added to this venture in November 2016 as the licensee for that station.

The venture began in 1997 when LIN sold a controlling interest in KXAS to NBC, and NBC contributed KNSD to the resulting partnership. Owing to their controlling stake in the partnership, NBC took operational control of both stations. In February 2013, LIN pulled out of the joint venture with NBCUniversal as part of a corporate reorganization, giving NBC full ownership of KXAS and KNSD. LIN paid NBC around $100 million to allow for the transaction. The stations remain under this name for FCC licensing purposes, along with WYCN-LD.

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