NBC

==Related services==

===Video-on-demand services===

NBC provides [[video on demand]] access for delayed viewing of the network's programming through various means, including via its website at NBC.com, a traditional VOD service called NBC on Demand available on most traditional cable and IPTV providers,<ref>{{cite web|title=Prime Time On Demand: NBC, CBS To Offer Big Shows For A Fee|url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/36044/prime-time-on-demand-nbc-cbs-to-offer-big-shows.html|first=Wayne|last=Friedman|website=MediaDailyNews|publisher=MediaPost Communications|date=November 8, 2005|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721142119/http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/36044/prime-time-on-demand-nbc-cbs-to-offer-big-shows.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and through content deals with [[Hulu]] and [[Netflix]] (the latter of which carries only cataloged episodes of NBC programs, after losing the right to carry newer episodes of its programs during their current seasons in July 2011). [[NBCUniversal]] is a part-owner of Hulu (along with majority owner [[The Walt Disney Company]], owner of ABC), and has offered full-length episodes of most of NBC's programming through the [[streaming media|streaming]] service (which are available for viewing on Hulu's website and [[mobile app]]) since Hulu launched in [[Beta testing|private beta testing]] on October 29, 2007.<ref>{{cite news|title=Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/business/media/11hulu.html|first=Brad|last=Stone|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 11, 2008|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=November 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119162917/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/business/media/11hulu.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC, Fox launching video site Hulu.com|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2007-10-29-fox-nbc-hula_N.htm|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=October 29, 2007|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722112512/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2007-10-29-fox-nbc-hula_N.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC brings slew of shows to Netflix streaming|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-brings-slew-of-shows-to-netflix-streaming/|first=Don|last=Reisinger|website=[[CNET]]|date=September 24, 2010|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722164244/http://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-brings-slew-of-shows-to-netflix-streaming/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Netflix won't be streaming any more new episodes of NBC shows|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/netflix-wont-be-streaming-any-more-new-episodes-of-58873|first=Sean|last=O'Neal|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=July 13, 2011|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721133547/http://www.avclub.com/article/netflix-wont-be-streaming-any-more-new-episodes-of-58873|url-status=live}}</ref>

The most recent episodes of the network's shows are usually made available on NBC.com and Hulu the day after their original broadcast. In addition, NBC.com and certain other partner websites (including Hulu) provide complete back catalogs of most of its current series as well as a limited selection of episodes of classic series from the NBCUniversal Television Distribution program library – including shows not broadcast by NBC during their original runs (including the complete or partial episode catalogs of shows like ''30 Rock'', ''The A-Team'', ''[[Charles in Charge]]'', ''[[Emergency!]]'', ''Knight Rider'' (both the original series and the [[Knight Rider (2008 TV series)|short-lived 2008 reboot]]), ''[[Kojak]]'', ''Miami Vice'', ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]'', ''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'' and ''[[Simon & Simon]]'').<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Are these streaming reruns really vintage, classic shows?|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2008/02/20/nbc-buck-rogers|first=Amy|last=Ryan|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=February 20, 2008|access-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC Sites Stream Classic TV Shows|url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/76914/nbc-sites-stream-classic-tv-shows.html|first=Fern|last=Siegel|website=MediaPost|publisher=MediaPost Communications|date=February 21, 2008|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721142113/http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/76914/nbc-sites-stream-classic-tv-shows.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Watch Classic TV Shows Online|url=http://www.nbc.com/video/classics|website=NBC.com|publisher=NBCUniversal|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721010615/http://www.nbc.com/video/classics|url-status=live}}</ref>

On February 18, 2015, NBC began providing live programming streams of local NBC stations in select markets, which are only available to [[TV Everywhere|authenticated subscribers of participating pay television providers]]. All eleven NBC-owned-and-operated stations owned by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations' were the first stations to offer streams of their programming on NBC's website and mobile app, and new affiliation agreements have made a majority of the network's affiliates available through the network's website and app based on a viewer's location. The network's NFL game telecasts were [[blackout (broadcasting)|not permitted to be streamed]] on the service for several years until a change to the league's mobile rights agreement in the 2018 season allowed games to be streamed through network websites and apps.<ref>{{cite web|title=NBC is bringing live streaming to (some) iOS and Android users|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/18/8059943/nbc-live-streaming-app-ios-android|first=James|last=Vincent|website=[[Gigaom]]|publisher=[[Vox Media]]|date=February 18, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721232444/http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/18/8059943/nbc-live-streaming-app-ios-android|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC to Live Stream Network Shows|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nbc-to-live-stream-network-shows-1418706061|first=James|last=Vincent|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=December 16, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722042023/http://www.wsj.com/articles/nbc-to-live-stream-network-shows-1418706061|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC-Owned Stations Introduce Live TV Everywhere Streaming|url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/nbc-owned-stations-live-tv-everywhere-streaming-1201376247/|first=David|last=Lieberman|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=February 18, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722051400/http://deadline.com/2015/02/nbc-owned-stations-live-tv-everywhere-streaming-1201376247/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NBC Owned Stations Add Live Streams to TV Everywhere App|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/nbc-owned-stations-add-live-streams-tv-everywhere-app/138077|first=Michael|last=Malone|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|date=February 18, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722061336/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/nbc-owned-stations-add-live-streams-tv-everywhere-app/138077|url-status=live}}</ref>

===NBC HD===

NBC's master feed is transmitted in [[1080i]] [[high-definition television|high definition]], the native resolution format for NBCUniversal's television properties. However, 19 of its affiliates transmit the network's programming in [[720p]] HD, while four others carry the network feed in [[480i]] [[standard-definition television|standard definition]]<ref name=re/> either due to technical considerations for affiliates of other major networks that carry NBC programming on a digital subchannel or because a primary feed NBC affiliate has not yet upgraded their transmission equipment to allow content to be presented in HD.

NBC's master feed has not fully converted to [[1080p]] or [[2160p]] [[ultra-high-definition television]] (UHD). However, some NBC stations have already begun broadcasting at 1080p via [[ATSC 3.0]] multiplex stations. One notable example is [[WRAL-TV]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] (a station that re-joined NBC in February 2016), which is currently also broadcasting at 1080p via [[WNGT-CD]], which is also serving as an ATSC 3.0 multiplex for the Raleigh area. While the equipment would allow the transmission of 2160p UHD, this was previously done through a secondary experimental station (WRAL-EX) where it transmitted limited NBC programming in UHD. The experimental station went off-air in 2018 as part of the FCC's repacking process.

''[[Meet the Press]]'' was the first regular series on a major television network to produce a high-definition broadcast on February 2, 1997, which aired in the format over [[WHD-TV]] in Washington, D.C., an experimental television station owned by a consortium of industry groups and stations which launched to allow testing of HD broadcasts and operated until 2002 (the program itself continued to be transmitted in [[480i]] [[standard-definition television|standard definition]] over the NBC network until May 2, 2010, when it became the last NBC News program to convert to HD).<ref>{{cite web|title='Meet the Press' goes hi-def: WHD-TV Washington airs country's first HDTV network program|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19111524.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150234/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19111524.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|first=Glen|last=Dickson|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|date=February 10, 1997|access-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title='Meet the Press' to Get New Set; Go HD|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/meet-the-press-to-get-new-set-go-hd/25899|first=Chris|last=Ariens|website=[[AdWeek|TVNewser]]|date=April 12, 2010|access-date=July 17, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721154625/http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/meet-the-press-to-get-new-set-go-hd/25899|url-status=live}}</ref> NBC officially began its conversion to [[high-definition television|high definition]] with the launch of its simulcast feed, NBC HD, on April 26, 1999, when
''[[The Tonight Show]]'' became the first HD program to air on the NBC network as well as the first regularly scheduled American network program to be produced and transmitted in high definition. The network gradually converted much of its existing programming from [[standard-definition television|standard-definition]] to high definition beginning with the [[2002–03 United States network television schedule|2002–03 season]], with select shows among that season's slate of freshmen scripted series being broadcast in HD from their debuts.<ref name="HDTV">{{cite journal |author=W. A. Kelly Huff |year=2001 |title=Regulating the Future: Broadcasting Technology and Governmental Control |url=https://archive.org/details/regulatingfuture0000huff |journal=Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/regulatingfuture0000huff/page/172 172] |isbn=9780313000607 |issn=0732-4456 |url-access=registration |quote=The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1999.}}</ref>

The network completed its conversion to high definition in September 2012, with the launch of NBC Kids, a new Saturday morning children's block programmed by new partial sister network [[Sprout (TV network)|PBS Kids Sprout]], which also became the second Saturday morning children's block with an entirely HD schedule (after the ABC-syndicated ''[[Litton's Weekend Adventure]]''). All the network's programming has been presented in full HD since then (except for certain [[Christmas holiday season|holiday]] specials produced prior to 2005 – such as its annual broadcast of ''It's a Wonderful Life'' – which continues to be presented in 4:3 SD, although some have been remastered for HD broadcast).

The network's high-definition programming is broadcast in [[5.1 surround sound]].

===NBCi===

[[File:NBCi.jpeg|thumb|right|upright=2.73|NBCi header used from 1999 to 2007]]
In 1999, NBC launched NBCi (briefly changing its web address to "www.nbci.com"), a heavily advertised online venture serving as an attempt to launch a [[web portal]]. This move saw NBC partner with [[Xoom (web hosting)|Xoom.com]] (not to be confused with the current [[Xoom Corporation|money transfer service]]), e-mail.com, [[AllBusiness.com]],<ref>{{cite web|title=NBCi agrees to acquire AllBusiness.com|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/nbci-agrees-to-acquire-allbusiness-com/|website=[[CNET]]|date=February 1, 2000|access-date=April 28, 2016|first=Greg|last=Sandoval|archive-date=March 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210544/http://www.cnet.com/news/nbci-agrees-to-acquire-allbusiness-com/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Snap.com (eventually acquiring all four companies outright; not to be confused with the [[Snap Inc.|current-day parent]] of [[Snapchat]]) to launch a multi-faceted internet portal with e-mail, web hosting, community, chat and personalization capabilities, and news content. Subsequently, in April 2000, NBC purchased GlobalBrain, a company specializing in [[search engine]]s that learned from searches initiated by its users, for $32&nbsp;million.

The experiment lasted roughly one season; after its failure, NBCi's operations were folded back into NBC.<ref>{{cite web|title=NBC to take NBCi back in-house|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-to-take-nbci-back-in-house/|website=[[CNET]]|date=January 2, 2002|access-date=April 28, 2016|first=Jim|last=Hu|archive-date=June 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629221642/http://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-to-take-nbci-back-in-house/|url-status=live}}</ref> The NBC Television portion of the website reverted to NBC.com. However, the NBCi website continued in operation as a portal for NBC-branded content (NBCi.com would be redirected to NBCi.msnbc.com), using a co-branded version of [[InfoSpace]] to deliver minimal portal content. In mid-2007, NBCi.com began to mirror the main NBC.com website;<ref>{{cite web|title=Archives of NBCi.com|url=http://NBCi.com|work=Wayback Machine|publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=January 29, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205203438/http://nbci.msnbc.com/nbci.asp |archive-date=December 5, 2006}}</ref> NBCi.com was eventually redirected to the NBC.com domain in 2010.  Only one legacy of this direction remains in the website of then-O&O [[WCMH-TV]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]] (now owned by [[Nexstar Media Group|Nexstar]]), which continues to use the URL "nbc4i.com".