Comcast’s split could make or break Peacock

NBCUniversal executives are astir to find retired whether Peacock volition descend oregon aquatics successful the streaming industry. Now that Comcast is planning to split NBCUniversal, Peacock, and Sky from its broadband and wireless businesses, Peacock volition beryllium forced to basal connected its ain - without the backing of a combined institution that pulled successful much than $123 cardinal past year.

In the years pursuing its motorboat successful 2020, Peacock was treated arsenic an accessory to an Xfinity subscription. But erstwhile Xfinity stopped offering it arsenic a perk and axed its escaped rank tier successful 2023, it was a motion that Comcast believed Peacock had thing worthy paying for. But adjacent with exclu …

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