{"id":965868,"date":"2025-10-03T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965868"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:41:18","slug":"youtube-tv-secures-nbcu-networks-as-peacock-joins-primetime-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/youtube-tv-secures-nbcu-networks-as-peacock-joins-primetime-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube TV secures NBCU networks as Peacock joins Primetime Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have reached a long-term distribution agreement, averting a blackout that would have affected more than 10 million pay-TV subscribers. The deal, announced Thursday afternoon following a short extension of their previous contract, ensures continued carriage of NBCU&#8217;s full network portfolio on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement includes the launch of a revived NBC Sports Network this fall, giving viewers access to NBCUniversal&#8217;s sports programming beyond what airs on the main NBC broadcast network. The reconstituted sports channel, which previously shut down in 2021, won&#8217;t include marquee properties like NFL games or the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have reached a long-term distribution agreement, averting a blackout that would have affected more than 10 million pay-TV subscribers. The deal, announced Thursday afternoon following a short extension of their previous contract, ensures continued carriage of NBCU&#8217;s full network portfolio on the streaming platform. The agreement includes the launch of a revived NBC Sports Network this fall, giving viewers access to NBCUniversal&#8217;s sports programming beyond what airs on the main NBC broadcast network. The reconstituted sports channel, which previously shut down in 2021, won&#8217;t include marquee properties like NFL games or the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}