NBCUniversal is gearing up to bring The Office back home
You know what they say about Rome not being built in a day? Turns out, neither are streaming platforms. NBCUniversal has been cooking up its upcoming SVOD service for months, and now we finally have a launch date: April 2020. According to NBCUniversal chief executive officerit’s been a herculean effort to get the thing off the ground; a team of more than 500 people have been working on it.
“We believe we have a very innovative way of coming to the market that is very different than anything else and has very attractive financial aspects,” Burke told Wall Street analysts. As NBC’s ad sales chairmantold TV execs and reporters at the network’s upfront presentation earlier this summer, the platform will boast its own ad-supported originals, which viewers can view for free if they’re already NBC cable customers or for a monthly fee if they’ve cut the cord.
won’t leave Netflix for the new service until 2021, Burke said NBCU sees the program “as one of the tentpole programs on our platforms.”back home should, indeed, be a boon to NBC’s streaming service, even if the impact of its loss on Netflix remainsaccounts for 5% of minutes spent watching Netflix. As the Peacock continues its foray into streaming, it can only help to have Michael Scott and his merry band of Dunder Mifflin employees on its side.
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