The service launches nationwide on Wednesday. Here is everything you need to know about it.
Is the $ 0 price too good to be true? Yes and no. The service will have options with and without advertising.
“Peacock Free” is the free option with advertising for any consumer, regardless of the cable provider. That option comes with approximately 13,000 hours of programming.
“Peacock Premium” is the option that will cost you.
It has two price levels: the first, which has ads, costs $ 4.99, and the second, without ads, costs $ 9.99. “Premium” comes with more content, around 20,000 hours. “Premium” users will get everything on the free tier plus other content like Peacock Originals and earlier access to NBC nightly programming like “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” starting at 8: 00 pm ET.
What does it offer?
Peacock offers plenty of sitcoms like “Parks and Recreation,” “30 Rock,” and several seasons of “Saturday Night Live.”
“The Office”, one of the most popular streaming series, will be exclusive to the service, but will not be available until next year, when it leaves Netflix.
Universal Pictures’ blockbusters such as movies from the “Fast & Furious” franchise and classics like “Jurassic Park” and “ET the Extra-Terrestrial” will be on the service.
“Premium” users will also be able to watch many of NBC’s shows the day after they air. “Free” users will be able to watch shows next week. There will be new content too. Peacock’s original lineup includes series like “Brave New World” starring Demi Moore and reboots of old favorites like “Saved By the Bell” and “Battlestar Galactica.”
Overall, Peacock will offer more than 600 movies and 400 series.
And it will have something that many streaming services don’t have: news and sports.
The football Premier League will be in service, as will “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” and “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd”.
Wait, Peacock didn’t launch anymore?
Yes, Peacock launched on April 15 for Comcast X1 and Flex customers. It will be released nationwide on Wednesday.
Can you compete in the crowded broadcast space?
NBC said it expects to reach 30 to 35 million active accounts by 2024, but will consumers want to subscribe to another streaming service? Only time will tell.
But aside from its extensive library, Peacock’s most significant advantage is that it has a free tier. That could give NBCUniversal’s new service an advantage over its competitors as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shake.s the economy, leaving millions out of work.
“It’s free, and that’s attractive to consumers in a crisis economy,” Laura Martin, senior media analyst at Needham & Company, told CNN Business. “The fact that it’s free gives you an advantage compared to many other services that require a subscription.”
However, the downside to Peacock is that it is nearing the end of many new service releases like Disney +, Apple TV +, and HBO Max. As the last major streaming service to hit the market, Peacock may have trouble attracting consumers who have a limited amount of disposable income.
“It’s late,” said Martin. “They had a brilliant strategy for using the Olympics as a launch pad, but that was delayed by a year. Therefore, most consumers have not even heard of Peacock.”
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