NBC (disambiguation)
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Broadcast television networks
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
- Nagasaki Broadcasting Company, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- Namibian Broadcasting CorporationNamibian Broadcasting CorporationThe Namibian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster of Namibia.It was established in 1990, replacing the South West African Broadcasting Corporation.-History:...
- National Broadcasting Corporation (Saint Vincent), Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
- National Broadcasting Corporation (Papua New Guinea)
- Nation Broadcasting CorporationNation Broadcasting CorporationNation Broadcasting Corporation is a pioneer radio and TV network operating in the Philippines since 1963. NBC is currently a subsidiary of MediaQuest Holdings, Inc.. This station offices and studios are located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City...
, a PhilippinePhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
broadcast company. - Newfoundland Broadcasting Company, a former name of CJON-TVCJON-TVCJON-DT is a Canadian English language television station broadcasting on channel 21 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with additional transmitters and cable coverage throughout the province. It is known on-air as NTV, for Newfoundland Television...
Defunct radio networks
- The NBC Red NetworkNBC Red NetworkThe NBC Red Network was one of the two original radio networks of the National Broadcasting Company. After NBC was required to divest itself of its Blue Network , the Red Network continued as the NBC Radio Network.It, along with the Blue Network, were the first two commercial radio networks in the...
, the primary radio network of the National Broadcasting Company, later renamed the NBC Radio Network, sold off in 1986 and absorbed into various assets in 2004. - The NBC Blue Network, the secondary radio network of the National Broadcasting Company, spun off in 1943 as the Blue Network, renamed the American Broadcasting CompanyAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
in 1945, currently Citadel Media and ABC News RadioABC News RadioABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the ABC Television Network. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Cumulus Media Networks, newscasts on the hour to its more than 2,000 affiliates...
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Organizations
- NabiscoNabiscoNabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...
, formerly National Biscuit Company and now a unit of Kraft Foods - National Ballet of CanadaNational Ballet of CanadaThe National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
- National Bank of CanadaNational Bank of CanadaNational Bank of Canada is the 6th largest bank and 8th largest financial institution in Canada. The bank's headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec....
- National Baseball CongressNational Baseball CongressThe National Baseball Congress of Wichita, Kansas is an organization of 15 amateur and semi-professional baseball leagues operating in the United States and Canada...
, an organization of US leagues - National Bank of Commerce (Kansas City), a former Kansas City, Missouri-based bank, now part of Commerce BancsharesCommerce BancsharesCommerce Bancshares, Inc. is a Kansas City, Missouri based U.S. bank holding company with branches of its Commerce Bank in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma....
- National Bank of Commerce (Memphis)National Bank of Commerce (Memphis)National Bank of Commerce was a bank headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee until it was taken over by SunTrust Banks in 2005.-History:Bank of Commerce & Trust began in 1873. Its limestone Classical Revival building was built in 1929....
, taken over by SunTrust Banks in 2005 - National Bank of Commerce (Birmingham), taken over by Alabama National BanCorporationAlabama National BanCorporationAlabama National BanCorporation based in Birmingham, Alabama, was a bank holding company which was purchased by RBC Bank in 2008 for $1.6 billion. Prior to the RBC deal, the bank was the no. 3 banking company in Alabama with over $7 billion assets.-History:...
in 2005, taken over by RBC BankRBC BankRBC Bank, formerly Centura Banks, is the United States retail banking division of the Royal Bank of Canada. The headquarters for the bank are located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Banking centers and automated teller machines are located throughout the Southeastern United States...
in 2008 - National Bank of Commerce (Mississippi), now called Cadence Bank
- National Bank of Commerce, Superior, Wisconsin, whose parent company is Natcom BancsharesNatcom BancsharesNatcom Bancshares, Inc. is a community banking company based in Superior, Wisconsin whose bank subsidiary is National Bank of Commerce. The bank has seven locations in northern Wisconsin and northeast Minnesota, and $570 million in assets.-History:...
- National Bank of Commerce, Lincoln, Nebraska, part of First Commerce BancsharesFirst Commerce BancsharesFirst Commerce Bancshares Inc. was a banking company whose main subsidiary, National Commerce Bank, was the largest bank in Lincoln, Nebraska. On July 17, 2000, First Commerce's banks became part of Wells Fargo Bank. At the time First Commerce had about 1400 employees and $2.3 billion in assets....
, taken over by Wells Fargo Bank in 2000 - National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania)National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania)National Bank of Commerce , whose full name is National Bank of Commerce Limited, sometimes referred to as NBC , or as NBC Limited, is a commercial bank in Tanzania...
- National Bedding Company, a mattress manufacturer
- National Billiard Council, today the Billiard Congress of AmericaBilliard Congress of AmericaBilliard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...
- National Bus Company (UK), operator of nationalised bus fleets in the UK, 1968–89
- National Bus CompanyNational Bus CompanyThe National Bus Company, or NBC, was the Australian brand for National Express Group's mass transit bus services in Melbourne and Brisbane. Its sister companies were Westbus, Hillsbus, and Glenorie in Sydney, Southern Coast Transit in Perth.-Routes:...
of Australia - National Business CenterNational Business CenterThe National Business Center, or NBC, is a service provider of the United States Department of the Interior. It was created in 2000 by the consolidation of three existing services centers within the Department of the Interior, and has continued to grow...
, US Department of the Interior - National Baptist Convention (disambiguation), various meanings
- Naval Base CoronadoNaval Base CoronadoNaval Base Coronado is a consolidated Navy installation encompassing eight military facilities stretching from San Clemente Island, located seventy miles west of San Diego, California, to the La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility and Camp Morena, located sixty miles east of San...
, US Navy installation - Neotropical Bird ClubNeotropical Bird ClubThe Neotropical Bird Club is a British-based ornithological and birdwatching club established in 1994 for people interested in the birds of the Neotropics, and specifically South America, Central America from Mexico to Panama, and the islands of the Caribbean.Its aims are to foster interest in...
- Nippon Bass ClubNippon Bass ClubThe is the largest amateur sports fishing club in Japan.This organization has been known to sponsor Japanese fishing games like JB The Super Bass. A salt water chapter is included in order to support salt water fishing in Japan. Hundreds of gram of fish are caught by the members of the Nippon Bass...
, a bass fishing club in Japan
Warfare
Since the Cold WarCold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, the acronym NBC can stand for Nuclear
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is detonated on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage...
, Biological
Biological warfare
Biological warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war...
and Chemical warfare
Chemical warfare
Chemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from Nuclear warfare and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical...
, with the usage in the following:
- NBC warfare/weapons - Weapon of mass destruction
- NBC protection system - usually found in building (eg. air-raid shelterAir-raid shelterAir-raid shelters, also known as bomb shelters, are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air...
s/fallout shelterFallout shelterA fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War....
s and bunkerBunkerA military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks...
s), ship, aircraft and vehicle - NBC suitNBC suitAn NBC suit is a type of military personal protective equipment designed to provide protection against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological or chemical substances, and provides protection from contamination with radioactive materials and some types of radiation,...
- NBC personal protection suit
The term NBC has since been superseded by a new acronym CBRN
CBRN
CBRN is an initialism for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear. It is used to refer to situations in which any of these four hazards have presented themselves. The term CBRN is a replacement for the cold war term NBC , which had replaced the term ABC that was used in the fifties...
, which stands for Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear.
Miscellaneous
- Next Byte CodesNext Byte CodesNext Byte Codes is a simple language with an assembly language syntax that can be used to program Lego Mindstorms NXT programmable bricks. The command line compiler outputs NXT compatible machine code, and is supported on Windows, Mac OS and Linux...
- Natural Born ChaosNatural Born Chaos- Band members :* Björn "Speed" Strid − Vocals* Peter Wichers − Guitar* Ola Frenning − Guitar* Ola Flink − Bass* Sven Karlsson − Keyboards* Henry Ranta − Drums- Guest musicians :* Mattias Eklundh − guitar solo on "No More Angels"...
- The Nightmare Before ChristmasThe Nightmare Before ChristmasThe Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to...
, a film - Neal Blaisdell Center, Concert hall in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Nahr al-Bared Camp, Palestinian refugee camp, north Lebanon
- non-breaking change, used for minor contributionsRevision controlRevision control, also known as version control and source control , is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. It is most commonly used in software development, where a team of people may change the same files...
which will not break the entire system - MPEG-2MPEG-2MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission...
NBC (MPEG-2 Advanced Audio CodingAdvanced Audio CodingAdvanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....
), an audio compression format, Non-Backwards Compatible with MPEG-1 audio