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<p>NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast <a href="/facts/Television/X4YG5nT1">television</a> network <a href="/facts/NBC/zyfTYCvW">NBC</a>. The division operates under <a href="/facts/NBCUniversal_Media_Group/DsjjvW7E">NBCUniversal Media Group</a>, a division of <a href="/facts/NBCUniversal/s4QPPX62">NBCUniversal</a>, which is itself a subsidiary of <a href="/facts/Comcast/5osy4Q0h">Comcast</a>. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, <a href="/facts/Rebecca_Blumenstein/IHSWlfFR">Rebecca Blumenstein</a>. The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises <a href="/facts/MSNBC/oy291YoI">MSNBC</a>, the network's 24-hour liberal cable news channel, as well as business and consumer news channels <a href="/facts/CNBC/uFKLJVaS">CNBC</a> and <a href="/facts/CNBC_World/lP5sdGmo">CNBC World</a>, the Spanish language <a href="/facts/Noticias_Telemundo/1jorgmdr">Noticias Telemundo</a> and United Kingdom-based <a href="/facts/Sky_News/S9EDh5cU">Sky News</a>. </p><p>NBC News aired the first regularly scheduled news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from <a href="/facts/30_Rockefeller_Plaza/T2DQnFXX">30 Rockefeller Plaza</a>, NBCUl's headquarters in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>. The division presides over the flagship evening newscast <i><a href="/facts/NBC_Nightly_News/yhwbmr3k">NBC Nightly News</a></i>, the world's first of its genre morning television program, <i><a href="/facts/Today_(American_TV_program)/WRY0PJgB">Today</a></i>, and the longest-running television series in American history, <i><a href="/facts/Meet_the_Press/tppdUQov">Meet the Press</a></i>, the Sunday morning program of newsmakers interviews. NBC News also offers 70 years of rare historic footage from the <a href="/facts/NBCUniversal_Archives/husF7BtA">NBCUniversal Archives</a> online. NBC News operates <a href="/facts/NBCNews.com/JmoMWP0Q">NBCNews.com</a>, the division's official website. </p>