NBC TV (Australia)

The NBC TV is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company NBCUniversal Australia and New Zealand, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia.

As of 2021, the NBC TV is the second highest-rated television network in Australia, behind the, and ahead of , , , and. From 2017, the network Since 2021, the network has changed its Back to the Peacock.

History
The NBC TV's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as NBN-31 on 16 September 1956 by The Daily Telegraph owner Frank Packer.

John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, This Is Television (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, NBN-31 in Melbourne commenced transmissions to broadcast the 1956 Summer Olympics, later forming the National Television Network alongside NBQ-31 in Brisbane in 1959 and NBS-31 in Adelaide, the basis of the current Nine Network, in 1959. Before its formation, NBN-31 was then sister affiliated with HSV-7 (because alongside the Seven Network, they were both Australia's first television stations, having opened in 1956, and NBV-31's sister affiliate was ATN-7.