CNBC is an American business news television channel, formerly called Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991. CNBC may also refer to: Organisations Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company, a pirate radio station from the Netherlands (1960–1961) Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, a national centre for materials research using neutrons Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, a bioscience and biomedicine research institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh research center in Pittsburgh, PA, US; See Peter K. Machamer See also List of CNBC channels, for all international channels it:NBC Universal TV Networks Distribution#CNBC