Peacock (Streaming Service)

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Comcast Boss Brian Roberts Says NBCU Streaming Plan Won’t Mean “Cold Turkey” Exit From Third-Party Licensing Deals | Deadline

It seems all the shows will remain on other platforms which is a good thing. Because you can watch for free with ads (if you have Cable) or just go to another service and watch.

“The point is to not be like Netflix or others that are out there. They’ve done a great job doing what they’re doing. What can we do that consumers will like, that is different and that creates value for our shareholders?”-purpose of the streaming service for Comcast

 

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THANK YOU!!!!
Michael Schur Inks Mega New Overall Deal To Stay At Universal Television | Deadline

Why does this matter?

The Office, Brooklyn 99, Superstore, The Mindy Project, The Good Place, and so many more he had an influence on and participating in creating. This bodes well for the comedy aspect of this streaming service.

 

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First show for the service is a limited series produced and starring Emmy Rossum called Angelyne. The series is based off a investigative true reports of the LA self made "legend" of the same name by Gary Baum (Link below) and produced as well by her husband, Sam Esmail (Homecoming, Mr Robot).

L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne Bemoans Kardashian, Hilton and "Boring, Gauche" Celeb Culture | Hollywood Reporter
Angelyne's Real Identity Is Finally Solved | Hollywood Reporter

 

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It appears the heavily high budger "Brave New World" is also the second show rumoured to be a flagship series for the NBCU streaming service.

 

[youhow2]

It seems like we're heading towards cable 2.0

Cable 2.0 aint going to be streaming...

 

[RevFreako]

Cable 2.0 aint going to be streaming...

Why wouldn't it be? We're already halfway there.

 

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Steve Burke on Streaming Service

In our case NBC is the number one broadcast channel. We have a huge portfolio of cable channels. And if you add up all of our rating points, more people watch our channels than any other media companies’ channels. And then not surprisingly, we're the number one provider of television advertising in the country. So we think those are strengths. We also think the fact that Comcast Cable and Sky have over 50 million direct relationships. Building direct relationships with customers is a real strength. So our approach, which we think is very interesting and different is to take thousands of hours of great programming and make it free to the vast majority of people who live in the United States or the UK eventually. And we think that's a way to get real scale quickly. And we think that's a way to achieve profitability more quickly than we would otherwise.

They seem to highlight free.

 

[Mad Dog]

Steve Burke on Streaming Service


They seem to highlight free.

I think it's a wise move. It differentiates them and gets them out of the muck of pay streaming services. I don't think they have the IP strength to go straight up against Disney, or the subscriber base of Netflix & Amazon. But this takes good advantage of their cable/internet captive audience and enhances the value of those services. I really don't think a Comcast pay for streaming, outside of their regular network, would have been successful.

 

[Mad Dog]

Just got this upgrade offer in the mail from Comcast/Infinity...."Get super fast Internet, Netflix included (their bold)".....Got a good laugh at the irony of that offer.

 

[zg44]

The bit in the conference call about how Sky's originals are the top 5 viewed shows on Sky's platforms was interesting. Really shows why they wanted Sky badly.


NBC + Sky aimed squarely at the 52-54 million Comcast/Sky subscribers with an advertising vod service (i.e. free with advertising for tv subs) is absolutely the right way for Comcast to go.


Also have hispanic programming with Telemundo for South America; really gives Comcast a good shot at getting people to use the AVOD service in the Americas and Europe to start.

 

[quinnmac000]

The bit in the conference call about how Sky's originals are the top 5 viewed shows on Sky's platforms was interesting. Really shows why they wanted Sky badly.


NBC + Sky aimed squarely at the 52-54 million Comcast/Sky subscribers with an advertising vod service (i.e. free with advertising for tv subs) is absolutely the right way for Comcast to go.


Also have hispanic programming with Telemundo for South America; really gives Comcast a good shot at getting people to use the AVOD service in the Americas and Europe to start.

I'm going to disagree here. The first AVOD should be focused on Canada, USA, and Mexico with Europe and Australia/New Zealand/Singapore. Any expansion into central and southern America will not work until they build up Telemundo studios owned content as well as NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan (NUEJ) based content. Of the places that will be most succesful, its going to be Europe even more so than America based off the higher than expected Hayu subscriptions in the UK (Comcasting Reality TV streaming service) and the number of english speakers who can understand most of the American content which is not available on Netflix in Europe.

Telemundo has a lot of telenovelas but they only have about 30 that they actually fully own and produced by Telemundo. Most come from outside studios. They will have to build up their Spanish library immensely to compete in the Central and South America Spanish speaking countries. Additionally if you don't have that language programming, the third biggest genre outside of telenovelas and sports is anime is central and Latin America which the issue is a lot of those properties despite being owned by NUEJ distribution and licensing rights are held by other companies for quite a long time (they stil get their cut though and Universal is actively working on fixing this problem with a huge number of job openings for animators and anime producers: [see NBCunicareers: location japan]) .

However, Comcast can work in Australia thanks to a small purchase years ago for this little known studio called Matchbox Pictures which has released a lot of well received shows by Australians as well as their ownership of a new studio in Australia which has not yet been named. They had the number one show in family demographic for years (Nowhere Boys) as well as some wildly popular stuff. Additionally 90% of the Sky Originals can work there due to the shared language of English. Its also why it can expand to Singapore and New Zealand as well, due to the natural English speaking capabilities.

 

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A small tiny bit of NBCUniversal streaming information came forth today at the NBCUniversal Upfronts press conference in which they determined the schedule for the upcoming shows.

They are heavily focusing on comedy as across all the brands, NBC comedies have become the most watched shows.

 

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NBC's 2020 streaming service not meant to be great for cord-cutters

• NBC is purposely making its cord-cutting version of its streaming service worse than the free version that comes with a pay-TV subscription.
• NBC is considering a $10-per-month price for cord cutters, and it already estimates revenue from those consumers will be immaterial, sources say.
• NBC’s free streaming product will include live linear programming and same-season shows, but its cord-cutting product will not, sources say.

NBC’s ad-supported streaming service will be free to all customers that pay for traditional live television -- whether through Comcast or any other provider, including virtual pay-tv bundles like Google’s YouTube TV or AT&T’s DirecTV Now, assuming partnership deals are struck, according to people familiar with the matter.

NBC’s decision isn’t totally motivated by supporting Comcast’s cable TV business. Now that Disney has full operational control of Hulu, Disney can bundle Hulu (or Hulu with Live TV) with Disney+ to make a compelling streaming offering that should further accelerate cord cutting. NBC is OK with this. Customers that cancel Comcast’s TV service for, say, YouTube TV will still get NBC’s streaming service for free.

 

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[bob albert]

The fact is there are simply too many content producers and not enough money for everyone to take a cut. The cable market was all about paying for content and charging later to consumers and cable companies under threat of pulling networks. Even if we get down to only streaming services they are going to be competing on price and ease of signup and cancellation. This is why all the money is going to screwing you on internet regulation and internet prices. They want to make up for the revenue of forced cable bundles to create an artificial market again. If they don't have some related service you are going to get pushed to that will make them enough money they are all going to charge you at the gate by creating the gate. This is what is happening now.

 

[Nick]

Writing was on the wall. Netflix is going to really struggle over the coming years as they lose their most popular content. Netflix will still be King for a bit, but they could easily lose that crown.

 

[quinnmac000]

The fact is there are simply too many content producers and not enough money for everyone to take a cut. The cable market was all about paying for content and charging later to consumers and cable companies under threat of pulling networks. Even if we get down to only streaming services they are going to be competing on price and ease of signup and cancellation. This is why all the money is going to screwing you on internet regulation and internet prices. They want to make up for the revenue of forced cable bundles to create an artificial market again. If they don't have some related service you are going to get pushed to that will make them enough money they are all going to charge you at the gate by creating the gate. This is what is happening now.

But then again, this service will be free for all pay-tv subscribers in US and Europe which is a huge chunk of persons.

 

[bob albert]

Writing was on the wall. Netflix is going to really struggle over the coming years as they lose their most popular content. Netflix will still be King for a bit, but they could easily lose that crown.

Netflix is not going to struggle. They have invested in content to prepare for this. Smaller players are gonna get squeezed out as Disney and Netflix dominate the market.

But then again, this service will be free for all pay-tv subscribers in US and Europe which is a huge chunk of persons.

Comcast can make this free and then exempt themselves later from bandwidth limitations due to lack of net neutrality while they lobby as much as possible. They are evil and will count on it.

 

[quinnmac000]

Writing was on the wall. Netflix is going to really struggle over the coming years as they lose their most popular content. Netflix will still be King for a bit, but they could easily lose that crown.

Netflix is not going to struggle. They have invested in content to prepare for this. Smaller players are gonna get squeezed out as Disney and Netflix dominate the market.

Netflix is going to struggle. You do know that all of Netflix's most watched shows are 6+ seasons? (The Office, Friends, Parks and Recs, Grey's Anatomy...) people like shows that go on multiple seasons and can be binged watch to the point that they can restart and not remember everything that went on.

Do you know how many adult shows Netflix has that has made it even close? Only OINTB and House of Cards. With NBC, Disney, and Warner all pulling content, its just gonna leave CBS, Paramount, and Sony with content left on the service.

 

[Nick]

Netflix is not going to struggle. They have invested in content to prepare for this. Smaller players are gonna get squeezed out as Disney and Netflix dominate the market.

Comcast can make this free and then exempt themselves later from bandwidth limitations due to lack of net neutrality while they lobby as much as possible. They are evil and will count on it.

Problem is most of Netflix’s content is trash outside of a few select shows.