General Electric has many different businesses contained in its six reporting segments: Infrastructure, Commercial Finance, GE Money, Healthcare, Nbc Universal and Industrial.

"NBC Universal (8.9%, 10.7% and 10.8% of consolidated revenues in 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively) is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. Formed in 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks."

"NBC Universal is 80-percent owned by General Electric and 20-percent owned by Vivendi S.A. NBC Universal is principally engaged in the broadcast of network television services to affiliated television stations within the United States; the production and distribution of television programs and motion pictures; the operation, under licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), of television stations; the operation of several cable/satellite television networks around the world; the operation of theme parks; and investment and programming activities in digital media and the Internet. The NBC television network is one of four major U.S. commercial broadcast television networks and serves 230 affiliated stations within the United States. Telemundo is our U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network."

"At December 31, 2007, we owned and operated 26 television stations. Broadcasting operations of the NBC television network, the Telemundo network and the company’s owned stations are subject to FCC regulation. Our cable/satellite television network operations principally include USA Network, Bravo, CNBC, the SciFi Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, the Sundance Channel, UniHD, Chiller, Sleuth, mun2 and news, information and entertainment channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America. We have exclusive U.S. television rights to the 2008, 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games, National Football League Sunday Night Football and the Super Bowl in 2009 and 2012."