Peacock will soon be the streaming hub to watch the Tokyo Olympics, which start in late July.
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Peacock is NBCUniversal’s streaming app, with tens of thousands of hours of free programming, plus more shows, movies, sports and originals if you pay. Peacock‘s free tier will stream the bulk of programming of the Tokyo Olympics, which began Friday, but keep in mind two things. First, Peacock won’t stream absolutely everything from the Olympics — to get that, it looks like you need to be a pay-TV subscriber. And second, only paying members can access the full Peacock catalog; in terms of the Olympics, the men’s basketball games will be paywalled but the rest of Peacock’s Olympics programming is available for free accounts.
Paying members also unlock access to other premium, paywalled content on Peacock, such as full seasons of its originals like Dr. Death, the service’s new true-crime drama show; Boss Baby 2 (aka The Boss Baby: Family Business), the animated Dreamworks sequel in theaters now; and, most likely, One…
