Three journalists for its English language affiliate were deported this week after days in detention.
To varying degrees, the local-language affiliates also bolster the American network's capabilities.
NBC Universal is shedding two of its owned-and-operated stations, leaving the company with eight English-language affiliates in top television markets.
Instead they often see local-language affiliates of the business news network, ones that share the brand name and often even the same CNBC shade of blue, but not the boisterous stock picks or the Wall Street traders who shout them.
Through Telemundo, NBC Universal owns more Spanish-language stations than English ones; the company will retain WSCV, its Spanish-language affiliate in Miami, the Miami Herald reports.
Indeed, Yahoo has said it has no seizable assets in France -- although some legal experts have suggested that money owed Yahoo by its French-language affiliate, Yahoo France, could be at risk.
On Aug. 8, while The Times was preparing its translation, the article appeared in the Russian-language newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti; the next day it was printed by the paper's English-language affiliate, Moscow News, in that paper's own translation.
Correction: November 1, 2004, Monday An article in Business Day last Monday about safeguards installed by newspaper companies to bolster confidence in their circulation figures referred imprecisely to the responsibility for circulation overstatements at Newsday and at its Spanish-language affiliate, the daily Hoy.
Also stoking the interest has been a joint program by the College Board and Hanban, a language council affiliated with the Chinese Education Ministry, that since 2006 has sent hundreds of American school superintendents and other educators to visit schools in China, with travel costs subsidized by Hanban.
On Wednesday, more than 100 relatives of victims protested at the Wenzhou South Station, demanding answers, according to Global Times, an English-language newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party.
President Obama echoed the concerns in an interview on Friday with WLTV, the Miami Spanish-language Univision affiliate, saying, "There is no doubt that when it comes to the American people that after having killed Bin Laden there may be a desire on some Al Qaeda members to exact revenge, and that's something that we have to be vigilant about, and we're monitoring all these situations".
