{"id":18936,"date":"2022-04-08T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18936"},"modified":"2022-04-06T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:13:25","slug":"mornings-with-the-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mornings-with-the-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"Mornings With The Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18937\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/peacock-mlb-lr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/peacock-mlb-lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/peacock-mlb-lr-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>On the heels of last month&#8217;s announcement of an exclusive streaming deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/taking-a-bite-of-the-apple\/\">Apple TV+<\/a>, MLB announced another streaming deal, this time with Peacock, owned by NBC.\u00a0 Worth an estimated $30 million to the poor MLB owners, the deal gives Peacock an exclusive window on Sunday mornings through 12:30 PM CT.\u00a0 Games will begin at 10:30 CT through June 12, then move to an 11 AM start time for the remainder of the season.\u00a0 In addition, Peacock will be the exclusive home of the Futures Game during All Star festivities and will also feature classic MLB games, award-winning documentaries from the MLB Film &amp; Video Archive, and highlight packages available on-demand in a new MLB hub.<\/p>\n<p>The Peacock slate kicks off on May 8 with the White Sox visiting the Red Sox and will be simulcast on NBC.\u00a0 The south siders make an additional appearance in August while visiting the Guardians.\u00a0 The Cubs, meanwhile, make their sole appearance while visiting the Phillies in July.\u00a0 It is a shame that all three of these games are on the road.\u00a0 It would be interesting to attend a game with an 11:00 (or earlier) start.<\/p>\n<p>As I said last month, I see MLB expanding its reach into the streaming world to be a good thing.\u00a0 Some will say that with these new exclusive deals, MLB is spreading their product around a little too much and they do have a point.\u00a0 In order to watch every White Sox game this season as it happens, one would have to have access to NBC Sports Chicago, FOX, FS1, ESPN, Apple TV+. and Peacock.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of different services.\u00a0 But how many fans actually try to watch every single game?\u00a0 For the casual fan, MLB having a wide footprint can only be a good thing as they try to build the next generation of hard-core fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of last month&#8217;s announcement of an exclusive streaming deal with Apple TV+, MLB announced another streaming deal, this time with Peacock, owned by NBC.\u00a0 Worth an estimated $30 million to the poor MLB owners, the deal gives Peacock an exclusive window on Sunday mornings through 12:30 PM CT.\u00a0 Games will begin at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9953,120,1317,806,10029,6151,9687,2244,500,8169,9937,254,258,49],"class_list":["post-18936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-apple-tv","tag-cubs","tag-espn","tag-fox","tag-fs1","tag-futures-game","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-nbc","tag-nbc-sports-chicago","tag-peacock","tag-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18938,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936\/revisions\/18938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}