Apple and Comcast’s NBCUniversal will launch a bundle of Apple TV and Peacock Premium streaming services next week, the companies said on Thursday, combining award-winning originals such as “Ted Lasso” and “The Traitors” for $14.99 a month. The bundle, which launches on Monday, offers US customers more than 30% savings and the option to combine Apple TV with Peacock … Read more
Executives at NBCUniversal are eying a new sports cable network, roughly four years after they shuttered the previous one the company operated. The unnamed cable channel would carry sports that will also stream on the company’s service, Peacock, with the network potentially going live as early as the fall, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. … Read more
Peacock, a streaming service by Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, said on Thursday it will raise prices by $3 later this month and begin testing a new narrowed-down tier for users. The price for Peacock’s ad-supported premium plan will increase to $10.99 per month, while the premium plus plan will now be priced at $16.99 per month, starting July 23, … Read more
Yankees fans in the tri-state area breathed a sigh of relief after YES Network and Comcast came to an 11th-hour deal to avert a blackout of the regional sports network on the cable provider. A little more than an hour before the 11:59 p.m. deadline, YES and Comcast released a joint statement that the two … Read more
Walt Disney said Wednesday it may have to pay up to $5 billion more to buy Comcast’s minority stake in Hulu, if an appraiser were to agree with Comcast’s assessment that the stake should be valued at more than $40 billion. Earlier this year, Disney and Comcast hired investment bank RBC Capital as the independent appraiser to resolve a dispute … Read more
Comcast is set to launch a streaming bundle combining its Peacock service with Netflix and Apple TV+, as the media and broadband company looks to retain subscribers in the face of stiff competition. The new bundle, StreamSaver, will be available to all its broadband, TV and mobile subscribers and at a “vastly reduced price to anything in the market today,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told … Read more