NBC is intentionally willing to put "bigger" games on Peacock. This week they have Washington/MSU there which is probably the best Big Ten controlled game available. I'm sure they'd prefer to have good games on both Peacock and NBC but last week was terrible in terms of the Big Ten (home) game options.
I'm well-aware of what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
However:
1) Ratings sank like a stone. Do you think the advertisers are happy?
2) Did they drive any actual new subscribers to Peacock? I don't believe there's a "Nielsen" service for streaming numbers, so aren't advertisers and subscribers and those interested in the "actual" numbers at the mercy of whatever NBC/Peacock wants to report?
3) And while admittedly a small sample size, going by the major message boards and PSU fan sites, not many people actually were interested in subscribing, but rather how to watch
without subscribing (free trials/$2.99 intro price then canceling/outright stealing/pirating or just plain going to a bar?). Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
4) And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all these streamers losing money? IIRC, Disney was losing billions with their product, and that's a rather extensive catalog and more expensive that Peacock.
Finally, I'm not attacking Peacock per se. I enjoyed it when it was part of my Xfinity deal. But when it ended, we didn't re-up, and we enjoyed some of their original programming (Poker Face comes to mind, but the first couple episodes were darn better than the last several. It's like they wrote themselves into a box with the seasonlong storyline instead of it just being a week-to-week whodunit/how did she solve it deal.
I wasn't going to subscribe for a game with Delaware. If major games start showing up there, and I don't have a tickets, perhaps but unlikely for me. Then again,
if major games start showing up there, then cable isn't just dying, it's dead. And that disposable income is now freed up.