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Universal Television

Universal Television

Universal Television LLC, abbreviated as UTV, is an American televisionproduction company and the television studio arm of NBC, established in 2004 as the successor to Revue Studios, NBC Studios, Studios USA Television, PolyGram Television, USA Cable Entertainment and MCA Television Entertainment, under the name NBC Universal Television Studio, and as a renaming of the original incarnation of the Universal Television studio. The flagship television division of the Universal Studio Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, it serves as the network television production arm of NBC; a predecessor of the company, NBC Studios, previously assumed such functions, and a substantial portion of the company's shows air on the network.

It is also known as Open 4 Business Productions, founded in 2000, in copyright in certain television series produced by them since 2009. The NBC Universal Television Studio was succeeded by Universal Media Studios in 2007 and renamed to its current name on September 12, 2011.