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Founded in 1940 and owned by NBCUniversal, part of Comcast. Its political unit and Meet the Press, the longest-running program on American television, give it institutional weight in Washington.
It maintains a large newsgathering operation and a polling partnership that is closely watched. Critics on the right argue the network was slow to separate itself from MSNBC's opinion output when the two shared a corporate parent; that particular objection has weakened now that the cable channel has been spun off.