Charter will offer Peacock for free with some cable subscriptions next year
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6R6DT)
Image: The Verge Charter's Spectrum TV Select cable plan will include a free ad-supported Peacock Premium subscription next year, reports Reuters. The addition comes as Charter announced today that it has reached a new multi-year deal" with NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock, to keep its TV channels in Charter's cable lineup.
Charter recently lined up a similar agreement with Disney that lets it bundle Disney's ad-supported Disney Plus Basic with Spectrum TV Select. (Upgrading to Spectrum TV Select Plus adds ESPN Plus, too.)
It's all part of Charter's new hybrid approach to bundles that allows it to bundle other companies' streaming subscriptions with its cable plans and even sell them to its internet customers, too. That lets the company boost the...