NBC Sports Group
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| 2025 | NBC Sports returns to NBA game broadcasting |
| 2025 | NBC Sports is set to begin broadcasting WWE Saturday Night's Main Event. |
| 2024 | NBC Sports will expand its college sports coverage by adding Big Ten Volleyball and the Big East Conference basketball. |
| September 2024 | NBC Sports Regional Networks adapted the new college football graphics for their own use. |
| July 23 2024 | Comcast confirmed that the NBA would return to NBC Sports in the 2025–26 season under an 11-year agreement, with comprehensive coverage of NBA and WNBA games across NBC, USA Network, and Peacock. |
| June 27 2024 | NBC Sports and the Big East Conference announced a six-year deal to carry men's and women's basketball games, starting in the 2025–26 academic year. |
| June 13 2024 | IndyCar and Fox agreed to a deal to broadcast the IndyCar Series, ending its 15-year partnership with NBC Sports. |
| June 11 2024 | TNT Sports announced a 10-year deal with the French Open, ending NBC Sports' long-standing broadcasting arrangement. |
| January 2024 | NBC Sports streaming channel was rebranded to NBC Sports NOW. |
| 2023 | NBC Sports added the SuperMotocross World Championship and AMA Motocross Championship to its broadcasting lineup, and began broadcasting the Big Ten Conference sports. |
| 2023 | NBC transitioned college football graphics to new designs derived from the Sunday Night Football graphics introduced in 2022. |
| June 2023 | NBC Sports launched a free ad-supported streaming channel. |
| 2022 | NBC broadcasts the United States Football League and continues MLB Sunday Leadoff. |
| 2022 | NBC unveiled a second redesign for Sunday Night Football graphics during Super Bowl LVI. |
| August 18 2022 | NBC Sports announced a seven-year deal to carry Big Ten Conference college athletics across its platforms, starting in the 2023–24 academic season. |
| July 1 2022 | NBC Sports announced the Olympic Channel would shut down as a linear channel on September 30, 2022. |
| April 6 2022 | NBC Sports announced a deal to carry Sunday afternoon MLB games on Peacock, branded as MLB Sunday Leadoff. |
| August 2021 | NBC Sports' technology and digital operations were re-aligned under the new division NBC Sports Next. |
| January 2021 | Announcement made that NBCSN would cease operations by the end of the year, with programming to move to USA Network and Peacock. |
| 2020 | NBC starts broadcasting MotoGP World Championship, Superbike World Championship, and continues through 2023. |
| June 29 2020 | Fox sold the last seven years of its contract to air USGA tournaments to NBC, with NBC regaining rights to the U.S. Open. |
| February 2020 | Reported that Golf Channel would relocate operations from Orlando to Stamford within 12 to 18 months. |
| 2019 | NBC begins coverage of IndyCar Series, Indianapolis 500, and Premier Lacrosse League. |
| 2019 | NBC Sports expanded its motorsports coverage by adding the Drone Racing League, IMSA racing, Rolex 24 at Daytona, and AMA Supercross Championship. |
| 2019 | NBC adopted graphics elements from its British sibling Sky Sports for its Premier League coverage. |
| 2018 | NBC Sports renews contract with IndyCar Series through 2021, acquiring broadcast television rights and agreeing to televise eight races per season, including the Indianapolis 500. |
| 2017 | NBC Sports began broadcasting the Pegasus World Cup and Royal Ascot horse racing events. |
| July 15 2017 | NBCUniversal relaunches Universal HD as Olympic Channel, focusing on Olympic sports programming. |
| July 2016 | NBC Sports Group acquired Sport Ngin, a digital services provider for youth and amateur sports, later renamed SportsEngine. |
| May 2016 | NBC Sports Group launched Playmaker Media, a streaming technology unit to serve NBCUniversal and third-party clients. |
| 2015 | NBC starts broadcasting Premier Boxing Champions. |
| 2015 | NBC Sports resumed NASCAR broadcasting and added the Women's PGA Championship to its golf coverage. |
| 2015 | NBC Sports Group formed NBC Sports Films to produce long-form sports documentaries. |
| October 22 2015 | Announcement made that Universal Sports Network would close down on November 16, 2015, with NBC Sports inheriting its sports rights portfolio. |
| June 8 2015 | First NBC Sports Films documentary 'Center of Attention: The Unreal Life of Derek Sanderson' broadcast on NBC Sports Network after Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals. |
| June 7 2015 | NBC Sports and The R&A sign a twelve-year deal to televise The Open Championship, Senior Open Championship, and Women's British Open, beginning in 2017 (actually starting in 2016). |
| May 2015 | Telemundo Deportes, a dedicated Hispanic sports production unit, was announced during NBCUniversal's Upfronts. |
| January 1 2015 | NBC introduced a refreshed design for on-air graphics with a cleaner and brighter visual appearance, timed for the 2015 NHL Winter Classic and NFL playoffs. |
| January 2014 | NBC announced exclusive digital-only streaming of the Sochi Winter Olympics via NBCOlympics.com and NBC Sports Live Extra app, broadcasting over 500 hours across five NBC-owned television channels and 1,000 hours digitally. |
| 2013 | NBC Sports started broadcasting the Premier League soccer competition. |
| March 18 2013 | NBC Sports and NBCSN operations began to be based out of a new purpose-built facility in Stamford, Connecticut. |
| 2012 | NBC begins broadcasting MLS, IndyCar Series, and the Hambletonian Stakes. |
| December 9 2012 | NBC Sports Group announced a content and promotional deal with Yahoo Sports. |
| January 1 2012 | Versus cable network was renamed NBC Sports Network. |
| 2011 | NBC Sports began broadcasting the Tour de France cycling event. |
| 2011 | Jon Miller becomes president of NBC Sports, succeeding Dick Ebersol and Ken Schanzer. |
| July 3 2011 | ESPN obtains exclusive broadcast rights to The Championships, Wimbledon, ending NBC's 42-year television relationship with the tournament. |
| May 2011 | Mark Lazarus took over from Dick Ebersol as chairman of NBC Sports Group. |
| February 2011 | Comcast completed its acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal, with plans to create NBC Sports Group under Dick Ebersol's leadership. |
| 2010 | The Winter Olympics in Vancouver were watched by 190 million viewers, with 27.6 million viewers for the men's hockey gold medal game. |
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