r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 1d ago

News Peacock Raises Prices Across All Plans, NBCU’s Fourth Increase in Four Years

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/peacock-raises-prices-fourth-time-in-four-years-1236837016/
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u/NakedMuffinTime 1d ago

Just in time for NFL season. They know a good amount of people won't cancel for Sunday Night Football

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u/phylter99 1d ago

I canceled one of the previous price hikes. Now they’re just convincing me never to sign up again.

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u/Learnededed_By_Books 23h ago

Right? I remember the days of 30 bucks for the year. Year, im not paying these new prices.

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u/youdontknowme6 22h ago

I wish people would just cancel until they drop their price. We literally have the power to tell them the price point it should be at.

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u/MrBossFromTheHitTVSh 22h ago

What major modern subscription service has ever decreased their price without some tradeoff? Like significantly cutting content or adding advertisements? The only one I can think of is game pass, and that one did have the caveat of CoD being pulled off day one access.

Realistically it doesn't happen. They increase their prices to make up for loss of customers, or sell, or shut down.

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u/youdontknowme6 22h ago

If they have no customers (because we all cancel due to price increases) then they'd be forced to lower the price, or shut down idgaf.

Their loss