Obscurity, much?/NBCUniversal

NBC has a reputation of making its Saturday morning fare (especially in the 1980s) obscure, in addition to making *entire networks* obscure.

A few restrictions on this subpage:

* Being pulled from Peacock (NBC's streaming service) doesn't automatically make a show a candidate for this trope. There needs to be evidence that there was low viewership during its time on the service before it was removed.
* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023), only ended/cancelled shows can be documented.
* Please note that this only applies to properties produced, owned and/or broadcast by NBCUniversal networks. As of 2020, the growing number of DreamWorks Animation series means DreamWorks examples may soon move to this page.

G4TV had this trope cycle so much it was eventually enough for them to garner their own page.

## NBC Examples

* Kissyfur, despite being one of NBC's highest-rated Saturday-morning cartoons during its day, is slowly fading into this.
* Let's just say that *any* of NBC's final Saturday-morning cartoons prior to Discovery Kids on NBC that isn't named The Smurfs or Super Mario World (the latter got out of obscurity thanks to YouTube Poop) fell into the "completely obscure" section.
* Qubo was screwed over by NBC so much that by the time the Qubo channel itself was shut down, no one remembered that Qubo even *started* on NBC (or Telemundo) in the first place.
* Any show aired on NBC that gets cancelled during its *first* season and never brought back are this unless it proves to cause a major franchise later on. Case in point: *America Alive* only has one episode and a promo up, despite having a role in cementing the talk show genre for years to come.
* On the radio side, the only moment from WNBC-AM widely known nowadays that NBC Radio itself had no part in is its shutdown, especially since Roger Grimsby (who never worked with WNBC-AM and was simply there on duty from WNBC-TV, its former sister TV station) said the absolute final words on the radio station before it cut to WFAN. However, WNBC-AM isn't really obscure; mention it to anyone in New York who was born before 1988, and they'll tell you about its awful demise.
* Reportedly, NBC tried to do this with *Star Trek: The Original Series* once it was cancelled. It backfired thanks to the introduction of demographics and instead proved itself worthy enough to cause a major franchise that is *still* going.
* Not *Saturday Night Live* itself (that plays another trope), but some of its segments definitely count:
	+ *TV Funhouse* hasn't had a new episode since the 2000s; thus, new-to-*SNL* viewers either do not know about this recurring sketch, or they watch old episodes of *SNL* before they do.
	+ Spin-off series *Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday* is a cult hit at best to *SNL* fans. Need I say more?

## Other examples

* The syndicated version of Storm Stories, which was broadcast on The Weather Channel.
	+ Speaking of The Weather Channel, Forecasting the End also counts; it's Wikipedia page is only a few sentences long.
* KidsCo, mainly due to its shutdown after NBC pulled out, as they wanted to focus on Sprout (now Universal Kids).
* As mentioned on Disney's own page, Comcast launched several counter-offers for the entirety of Fox's library (excluding series from Fox Kids, which Disney was forced to buy in a deal including Saban Entertainment and Fox Family 16 years before they announced their intent to acquire Fox's assets save the broadcast network and a few other assets). Had Comcast continued their bid until their offer was approved, it meant Comcast would have acquired the rights to several obscure series from Fox.