Peacock is primarily an on-demand streaming service with thousands of TV shows and movies available at your fingertips, and it also streams live TV. Well, sort of: Unlike YouTube TV or Sling TV, Peacock doesn’t carry live-right-now cable or local channels, but 24/7 loops of content from its library divvied up into “channels.” Ever used Pluto TV or Sling Free? It’s like that.
Peacock does carry a handful of actual live news and sports channels in its lineup, like NBC News Now, NBC Sports, NFL Network, Premier League TV, and WWE. The news channels can be viewed on the free version of Peacock, but live sports are available only on Peacock’s paid Premium ($4.99 a month, with ads) or Premium Plus ($9.99 a month, without ads) tiers.
Most of Peacock’s 50+ channels are self-explanatory, like Fallon Tonight (episodes and clips from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), SNL Vault (Saturday Night Live sketches and videos), and The Bob Ross Channel (all Bob painting, all the time). Others, like Out of This World (hours of Ancient Aliens), Can’t Not Laugh (endless episodes of The Office), and Witching Hour (all the classic Charmed magic you can handle), are a little less so.
Unlike Paramount+, which livestreams local CBS channels in most areas, Peacock doesn’t carry local NBC affiliates live. It does have channels dedicated to rebroadcasting newscasts from NBC channels in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and South Florida, however.
Live sports events on Peacock’s channels include NBC Sunday Night Football, Premier League soccer matches, and WWE Network shows and pay-per-view events (paid Premium and Premium Plus tiers only). Peacock also livestreams Winter and Summer Olympics events not broadcast by NBC.
Peacock live TV channels
Peacock entertainment channels
- AFV Family
- Black Cinema
- Black Led Comedy
- The Bob Ross Channel
- Can’t Not Laugh
- Circle (music)
- Classic Crime TV
- Classic TV
- Fallon Tonight
- Great Finds
- Hot Blockbuster Movies
- LOL! Network
- Loop (music)
- Out of this World
- Peacock Originals
- Peacock Picks: Comedy Movies
- Peacock Picks: Family Movies
- Psych
- Rotten Tomatoes
- SNL Vault
- This Old House
- USA Classic Characters
- Witching Hour
Peacock news and talk channels
- The Choice from MSNBC
- CNBC Ka-Ching
- NBC Boston News
- NBC Chicago News
- NBC News Now
- NBC Philadelphia News
- NBC South Florida News
- Sky News
- Today All Day
Peacock sports channels
- NBC GolfPass
- NBC Sports
- NFL Channel
- Olympic Spotlight
- Premier League TV
- WWE
Peacock reality TV channels
- Bad Girls Club
- Below Deck
- Chrisley
- Hell’s Kitchen
- In It to Win It
- Million Dollar Listing
- Peacock Reality
Peacock crime documentary channels
- American Greed
- Dateline 24/7
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Snapped
- True Crime
Peacock Spanish channels
- Caso Cerrado
- NBC LX
- Peacock Latino
- Telemundo al Dia
