This was expected to come out as soon as NBC Sports Net was shut down and Comcast was trying to come up with a strategy to reach the current demos.
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock to Stream All Winter Olympics Coverage Live
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This was expected to come out as soon as NBC Sports Net was shut down and Comcast was trying to come up with a strategy to reach the current demos.
That may actually convince me to get the Premium tier now. I currently have the free version just for the "LIVE TV" experience.
For the summer Olympics, we used Peacock almost exclusively to watch Olympic coverage. First, we weren't often able to watch the games live during prime time, but also, we're Comcast subscribers and Comcast customers get complimentary access to Peacock Premium. We were able to access only the sports, games and matches we wanted either to see by using Comcast On Demand or via the Peacock website, and we were also able to fast forward through the banter, interviews and personal interest stuff we weren't terribly interested in seeing, so we could simply watch the sporting events and contests that we really wanted to watch, even days after the match or even the Olympic Games themselves had concluded.
Premium includes the following additions to the free tier.
- Over 20,000 more hours of entertainment, bringing the total hours to over 60,000
- All of their live sporting events, including the Premier League
- Next-day access to current NBC shows
Source: Peacock's Plans
If I am paying for a service I don't want ads of any kind.
Oh well.
The $9.99/month plan I believe is the one that doesn't have any ads of any kind while the $4.99/month one offers very limited ads.
Don’t call it premium if it has ads.
When you launch a service you can call it what you want.
Premium refers strictly to the content. You get more of it for 10 bucks than you do for 5. But the rights fees for that content -- at either level -- won't be covered through user fees alone, so Comcast/NBCUniversal sells advertising time on the programming. Suck it up, buttercup; the ads keep Peacock a bargain for the people who enjoy its content. Want to enjoy Peacock's content and not pay for it? Try an illegal streaming site. But you'll still see ads.
How much content on Peacock is already NBC owned content that aired 20 years ago?
They are double dipping with the service. Either make it a paid ad free service like Netflix or sell me ads, but don't call it premium. I don't watch HBO for commercials.
But music is a different situation from video content. I have never heard of a music streaming service that has a paid tier with ads. But I know what you mean.
Should the whippersnappers get off the lawn, too?
Up hill in 10 feet of snow, both ways!
Just announced that NBC will not send announcing teams to Beijing.
www.npr.org
So they will anchor the winter Olympics from the US.
COVID concerns will keep NBC announcers home from the Beijing Olympics
NBC Sports officials say their plan of covering the Olympics from its Stamford, Conn., facility is a similar strategy used to cover the delayed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics last year.
www.npr.org
So they will anchor the winter Olympics from the US.
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They will still send Trico and so on so let them do it live.
This may work out just fine, especially for those of us who primarily only watch the actual Olympic matches and contests and don't care to see all the fluff, personal interest stories and interviews. Our NBA team's Bally's Sports play by play/color announcers never traveled with the team at all last year, nor have they traveled with them during the latest spikes in covid numbers. Instead, they've sat in our own (completely empty) home arena by themselves, watching the game on the big screens on the scoreboard and on video monitors in front of them and called the games from there.
I'd say 98% of the time you'd never know the difference between them being here vs. having them call the same game while being on-site in the visitor's arena themselves. The only time they miss out is when something dramatic happens off screen or something that is called or affects the game occurs outside any of the camera angles that available to them. In those rare cases, they remind viewers that they are not in the actual arena where the game is being played and are having to rely on the shots they can see, same as us at home.
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