NBCUniversal International Networks, formerly NBC Universal Global Networks and Universal Networks International, is a part of

NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. NBCUniversal is primar ...

, owned by

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

History

When NBCUniversal was formed in 2004, it owned many entertainment television channels in Europe and Latin America. These were mostly a few international versions of the Sci Fi Channel, three action and suspense series channels in Europe, the Italian Studio Universal channel and the Latin American version of the USA Network. In 2007, NBC Universal acquired Sparrowhawk Media Group, which at the time was a British

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-backed media company managing a collection of

digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative adva ...

channels, and integrated it into NBC Universal Global Networks. The purchase more than doubled the number of international channels in NBC Universal's portfolio. Sparrowhawk's crown jewel was an international network of drama channels available on most continents under the Hallmark Channel brand, but

Diva TV Diva TV was a British TV channel owned by Universal Networks International, which launched on Sky in the UK and Ireland on channel 269 at midday on 1 October 2007. Despite having quite a varied schedule upon launch, the channel's programming de ...

, Movies 24, and KidsCo channels were also available. Altogether, the company broadcast about 70 different channels by 2009. On 5 October 2009, it was announced that the venture would be renamed Universal Networks International and focus its attention on five channel brands, all with "Universal" in their name: *Universal Channel *13th Street Universal *Syfy Universal *Diva Universal *Studio Universal The overhaul started in late 2009 and progressed during 2010. Most of the international Sci Fi channels were rebranded as Syfy. The Hallmark Channel brand was also phased out in most markets during 2010. Typically, it was replaced by the Universal Channel brand in markets where that brand wasn't available before. In many markets where Universal Channel was already present, Hallmark Channel was replaced by Diva Universal with one each replaced by Studio Universal or 13th Street Universal. Following the merger of

and

in 2011, the following channels are also operated and distributed by

: * E! Entertainment Television *

Style Network Esquire Network was an American pay television network that was a 50/50 joint venture between NBCUniversal and the Hearst Corporation. The network carried programs aimed at a metrosexual audience centering on travel, cooking, sports and fas ...

* The Golf Channel The DreamWorks Channel was placed under the NBCU International executive vice president, lifestyle and kids Duccio Donati in August 2017. This paired the channel with E! international channels and NBCU lifestyle channel content. On 1 January 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over HBO Asia's role with DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia. Following NBCU parent company, Comcast acquisition of

Sky Group Sky Group Limited is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate, which is a division of Comcast, and headquartered in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe' ...

in 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over the sales, marketing and distribution rights to Sky News outside UK and Ireland from Fox Networks Group International.

Channels

Australia and New Zealand

* Bravo (New Zealand only) *

CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk s ...

* MSNBC International (Australia only) * E! * Universal TV **

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...

* DreamWorks Channel (Australia only) *

Oxygen Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements ...

Former: *

Euronews Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. The majority of Eurone ...

* KidsCo *

13th Street 13th Street (France: 13ème Rue, Spain: Calle 13, Hungary: Utca 13, and Poland: 13 Ulica) is a television channel specializing in action, suspense and police procedural programs and movies, mainly from the Universal Pictures and Television libra ...

SYFY Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. La ...

Europe

* CNBC Europe * E! * Golf Channel * Sky News *

Syfy Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. La ...

France

In December 2016,

SFR SFR (; ''Société française du radiotéléphone'', ) is a French telecommunications company. As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provided 6.35 million households with high-spee ...

got an exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal for channels and films (on Altice Studio) * 13ème Rue Universal * SYFY France * E!

Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and Switzerland

* Universal TV Former: * Das Vierte

Italy

Class CNBC Class CNBC (formerly CFN/CNBC) is an Italian pay television channel, working as a localised version of CNBC Europe, albeit with a major focus on the Italian financial markets. The channel is headquartered in Milan, site of the Borsa Italiana, and ...

(joint venture with

Class Editori Class Editori S.p.A. is an Italian media conglomerate that is based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since November 30, 1998. It is also active in the field of television, radio and video information systems (Telesia Sistemi) br ...

(60%) and Mediaset (20%)) Former: * Studio Universal *

Steel Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistan ...

(branded block on Steel) *

Diva Universal Diva, formerly Diva Universal, is a woman-based entertainment channel owned by Universal Networks International. The list of Diva channels includes: * Diva (Asia TV channel) ''defunct'' * Diva Universal (Philippines) ''defunct'' * Diva (Finland) ...

United Kingdom and Ireland

* Sky Sci-Fi - formerly SyFy, rebranded as part of the

* Movies 24 * Movies 24 + Former: * Universal TV

Former channels in Europe

(25%) * Universal Channel (Hungary) * Universal Channel (Czech Republic and Slovakia) * Movies 24 (Poland, Romania and Hungary) * Universal Channel (Russia) *

(Russia) * KidsCo Europe * Hallmark Channel

Middle East and North Africa

* E! * CNBC Arabiya * CNBC Europe * DreamWorks Channel *

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

(Displays in most of the time on OSN News) * Sky News

Latin America

*NBCUniversal International Networks Spanish Latin America (minority-owned by Ole Communications, networks distributed by

Ole Distribution Ole Distribution is a company which owns several pay television networks in the region of Latin America. Is founded as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and Ole Communications. Distributed channels Warner Bros. Discovery distribu ...

) ** Universal TV ** Universal+ ***Universal Premiere ***Universal Cinema ***Universal Comedy ***Universal Crime ***Universal Reality ** Studio Universal **

** E! (also available in Brazil) ** Telemundo Internacional ** DreamWorks Channel (also available in Brazil) **

*NBCUniversal International Networks Brasil (joint-venture with

Globo Globo (meaning '' globe'' in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian) may refer to: * Grupo Globo, a Brazilian conglomerate primarily in mass media ** TV Globo, a television network *** GloboNews, a television 24-hour news channel *** Globo (Portuguese T ...

, which also handles distribution) ** Universal TV Brazil ** Studio Universal Brazil **

Brazil

Japan

Nikkei CNBC Nikkei CNBC (日経CNBC) is a business and financial news television channel broadcast in Japan. It is owned primarily by CNBC Asia and Japanese media group Nikkei, Inc. and its subsidiary, TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation. The channel is a result ...

(joint venture with

Nikkei, Inc. Nikkei, Inc. is a Japanese media company which owns ''The Nikkei'' and the ''Financial Times''. Its first publication was in 1876 with the publication of ''The Chugai Bukka Shimpo (Domestic and Foreign Prices News)''. In 1946, the company name wa ...

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certifie ...

, and

Jupiter TV Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth th ...

) * Sky News

South Korea

* DreamWorks Channel * Sky News

Southeast Asia

* CNBC Asia * CNBC Indonesia (licensed to Trans Media) *

JKN-CNBC JKN Global Group Public Company Limited (formerly known as STGCP, JKN Living and JKN Global Media) is a Thai multinational conglomerate founded by Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip, also known as Anne Jakkaphong or Anne JKN, i ...

(licensed to JKN Global Media) * Golf Channel (HD) * DreamWorks Channel * Sky News (Except

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

) Former: * Diva (HD) (ceased transmission broadcasts on

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2019 at 11.59pm together with E!) * E! (HD) (ceased transmission broadcasts on

2019 at 11.59pm together with Diva) *

* KidsCo Asia *

* SYFY Asia * Universal Channel Asia

South Asia

* CNBC-TV18 (joint venture with TV18) * CNBC Awaaz (joint venture with TV18) * CNBC Prime * CNBC Bajar * Golf Channel * Sky News Former: *

CNBC Pakistan G News Network, commonly known as GNN, is a Pakistani 24-hour news and current affairs channel based in Lahore, Pakistan. It is owned and operated by Gourmet Foods. It was launched in 2005 as CNBC Pakistan under a license from CNBC Asia Pacifi ...

(licensed to Vision Network Television Limited) *

* E! (HD)

Sub-Saharan Africa

* Universal TV Africa * Studio Universal Africa * SYFY Africa * MSNBC Africa * CNBC Europe *

Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with pr ...

* CNBC Africa (licensed to Africa Business News) * E! * DreamWorks Channel * Sky News

United States and Canada

CNBC World CNBC World is an American pay television business news channel operated by the NBCUniversal News Group which provides coverage of world markets alongside the domestic CNBC service, using programmes from CNBC's international networks based in Eu ...

* E! * E! Canada (available in Canada, franchisely operated by Bell Media) *

Bravo! CTV Drama Channel (formerly known as Bravo) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel was founded as the Canadian version of the U.S. channel Bravo (which is now owned by NBCUniversal) on January 1, 1995 ...

* Golf Channel *

Universal Kids Universal Kids is an American children's television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented channel joint ...

* Sky News

High Definition

On the January 26, 2009, Sci Fi became the first of the NBC Universal Global Network channels to begin broadcasting in High Definition within the UK. It will provide a simulcast of the Sci Fi Channel exclusively on Sky+HD channel 214, and will air UK HD premieres such as Eli Stone and Flash Gordon.

Video on demand

NBCUniversal International introduced Hayu in March 2016 in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...

. The subscription

video on demand Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of ...

service offers reality programs such as '' Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' and '' The Real Housewives''.

References

External links

Official Site
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