
- Visibility47
- Citations0
- Sentiment51
- Site quality80
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name NBC in 65% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in the media sector at 15%. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 207th of 2,047 companies. NBC's website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named NBC. AI assistants named it in 39 of 60 answers (65.0%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, NBC ranks 9 of 99 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
99 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Which over-the-air television networks offer both current and classic series for free?”
I'll search for information about free over-the-air television networks that offer both current and classic series.Based on the search results, several over-the-air television networks offer both current and classic series for free:
Networks with Mixed Current and Classic Programming:
ION Television offers a mix of procedural dramas, movies, and reruns of popular shows like Law & Order and Criminal Minds.
Comet broadcasts classic and contemporary sci-fi movies and TV shows.
Networks Focused on Classic Series:
MeTV broadcasts vintage shows from the 1950s through the 1980s, includin …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 31 of 100 · 87% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.nbc.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Consumer brands.
- Which over-the-air television networks offer both current and classic series for free?
- How can viewers access entertainment or news programming if they can't get traditional broadcast channels?
- Are live local broadcast TV channels a better value than basic cable packages?
- Is it worth getting a digital antenna for access to major broadcast television networks?
- What are the best ways to watch full episodes of American broadcast TV shows online?
- What are some good ways families can watch prime time network shows together?
- What is the cheapest way to legally access local network content without a cable subscription?
- Why am I not receiving any major broadcast channels on my over-the-air TV?
- Which streaming platforms offer a selection of shows from major American television networks?
- What can cause interruptions or weak signal issues with free-to-air television networks?
- How can someone catch up on missed episodes from popular broadcast TV series?
- What are alternatives to watching network TV if you don't have an antenna or cable?
- How does cable TV compare to traditional broadcast networks for local news coverage?
- Are there any monthly fees associated with watching U.S. broadcast television over the air?
- Broadcast TV vs streaming services: What are the main differences in show availability and cost?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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