Report: Peacock to Stream NBC Sports RSNs In Market

By Phillip Swann
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NBC is planning to stream the regional sports broadcasts of its NBC Sports channels on Peacock as soon as early 2025, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal. The article says details are still being worked on including whether they would be offered in market as an add-on to the Peacock subscription.

What Are the NBC Sports Channels?

The channels, which include NBC Sports Philadelphia, NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California, broadcast the games of such teams as the Boston Celtics, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Golden State Warriors.

The WSJ article says the NBC Sports channels would remain on pay TV services.

NBC, which is owned by Comcast, has discussed offering its NBC RSNs on Peacock since 2022. Mark Lazarus, NBCUniversal’s chairman of television and streaming, told a Sports Business Journal conference in November 2022 that his company was negotiating streaming rights with the leagues and teams and planned to provide the regional sports channels on Peacock later in 2022, according to Bloomberg.

However, the plan apparently stalled until now.

Will Peacock Offer the RSNs With Its Basic Plan?

It’s likely that Peacock won’t undercut pay TV services that now carry the RSNs by simply including them in a regular Peacock plan, which starts at $7.99 a month. Some pay TV subscribers now shell out $100 a month in large part just to get a cable or satellite bundle that includes an NBC RSN. They would drop those services in a New York minute if they could get the RSN for $7.99 a month, or even $13.99 a month, the cost of the ads-free Peacock plan.

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