Peacock will carry an early Major League Baseball game each Sunday, starting on May 8, the streaming service said on Wednesday. The 18 games will start earlier than normal: the first six at 8:30 a.m. PT and the final 12 at 9 a.m. PT. Each game (except the first) is exclusive to Peacock. The broadcasts …
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Amazon Prime Video will exclusively stream live-action movies from Universal’s film studios about eight months after they hit theaters and four months after they stream exclusively on rival service Peacock first, according to a complex new licensing deal between Amazon and NBCUniversal announced Thursday. The deal joins others confirming how the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed big-screen movie release cycles, …
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HBO Max gets that, for many HBO fans, the next best thing to zero ads is as few of them as possible. That’s why HBO Max With Ads — the cheaper, ad-supported tier of the streaming service that launched Wednesday — is aiming to serve fewer of them than anyone else: less than four minutes of ads per hour. “HBO has previously been …
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Even if you’re suffering from streaming-service overload, this is a deal that deserves a look. For a limited time, you can get four months of NBC’s Peacock Premium for just $10. That works out to $2.50 a month, or half the regular price (which was already a pretty solid deal). See it at Peacock As always with promotions like this, …
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Peacock, the partly free streaming service that kicked off this year as the new home for streaming The Office, ended last year with 33 million signups, parent company Comcast said Thursday. That includes free users and accounts that pay either $5 or $10 a month to unlock Peacock’s full catalog. It also includes people who may not be using it …
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NBC’s new streaming service Peacock launched in July and is packed with TV shows, movies, live sports, news and original series — much of which you can watch for free with ads, unlike competitors Netflix and Hulu. The free tier cuts you off from Peacock’s most coveted programming, like newer movies and its originals. But whether or not these titles matter …
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Peacock, a new streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, launches in the US next week, but if you’re hoping it will bring you some surprise new movies to stream during your coronavirus lockdown, don’t hold your breath. Peacock won’t likely deliver any Hamilton-style launches along the lines of Disney Plus — at least, not soon. “Certainly nothing near term,” Matt Strauss, the …
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Peacock, NBCUniversal‘s streaming service launching nationwide in two weeks, will stream shows that originally ran on CBS, Showtime and the CW, as well as certain classic Paramount movies through a licensing deal with ViacomCBS, the companies said Thursday. ViacomCBS runs a constellation of TV networks and the Paramount movie studio — as well as its own CBS All Access streaming service …
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AT&T wireless customers without unlimited data plans won’t have to worry about going over their data usage when streaming HBO Max. The company isn’t counting usage from its own streaming service, but competing services like Netflix and Disney Plus can still eat up data plans. AT&T confirmed in an email to CNET on Wednesday that wireless subscribers streaming HBO Max …
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Apple TV Plus could be about to get a lot more content. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the iPhone-maker has “taken pitches from Hollywood studios about licensing older content” and has already bought the rights to some older TV shows and films to add to its young streaming service. The report does not mention which studios Apple has …
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