NBC

====NBC Super Channel becomes NBC Europe====

In 1993, then-NBC parent General Electric acquired Super Channel, relaunching the Pan-European cable network as NBC Super Channel.<ref>{{cite news|title=NBC Buys Into Pan-European Super Channel|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-02/business/fi-41359_1_super-channel|first=John|last=Lippman|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 2, 1993|access-date=January 28, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222173848/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-02/business/fi-41359_1_super-channel|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1996, the channel was renamed [[NBC Europe]], but was, from then on, almost always referred to on-air as simply "NBC".

Most of NBC Europe's prime time programming was produced in [[Europe]] due to rights restrictions associated with U.S. prime time shows; the channel's weekday late-night schedule after 11:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Central European Time]], however, featured ''The Tonight Show'', ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]'' and ''[[Later (talk show)|Later]]'', which the channel's slogan "Where the Stars Come Out at Night" was based around. Many NBC News programs were broadcast on NBC Europe, including ''Dateline NBC'', ''Meet the Press'' and ''NBC Nightly News'', the latter of which was broadcast simultaneously with the initial U.S. telecast. ''Today'' was also initially aired live in the afternoons, but was later broadcast instead the following morning on a more than half-day delay.

In 1999, NBC Europe ceased broadcasting in most of Europe outside of Germany; the network was concurrently relaunched as a German-language technology channel aimed at a younger demographic, with the new series ''NBC GIGA'' as its flagship program. In 2005, the channel was relaunched again as the [[free-to-air]] movie channel [[Das Vierte]] which eventually shut down end of 2013 (acquired by Disney, which replaced it with a German version of Disney Channel). [[GIGA Television]] was subsequently spun off as a separate digital channel, available on satellite and cable providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which shut down as a TV station in the end of 2009.