Free Peacock Premium for Xfinity subscribers is about to end
Existing Xfinity subscribers will no longer receive free Peacock Premium beginning June 26.
Existing Xfinity subscribers will no longer receive free Peacock Premium beginning June 26.
The Pac-12 reportedly thought Comcast was underpaying at first.
Peacock posted $467 million in Q2 losses, up from $363 million in that quarter last year.
Charter's decision to join Comcast's streaming device/smart TV project rather than do their own gives the combined venture significant scale, and perhaps paves the way for some eventual OTT service bundling deals.
NBCSN perhaps never hit the heights NBC envisioned, but it still had a large effect on the sports landscape.
The new agreement also secures continued SEC Network distribution.
Comcast, of course, owns some of these regional sports networks, which makes things even murkier.
On the day of the Cubs' first regular-season game of 2020, Comcast customers in Chicago are finally able to watch Marquee Sports Network.
"The contracts between the leagues, the programmers, the distributors don't line up. And there are different rights that exist between the agreements between each of the parties. And in some cases, the form of refund could be in kind."
Pay TV subscriptions fell by record-setting 1.8 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to a new report.
"It is grossly unfair that cable and satellite television providers would continue to charge fees for services they are not even providing."
Marquee looks a lot better financially if they're able to strike a deal with Comcast and gain access to large numbers of Comcast's 1.56 million Chicago-area subscribers. We'll see if that happens, though.