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 dozens of “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, NFL Channel, NBC Sports, 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
- Black-Led Comedy
- Blockbusters (movies)
- The Bob Ross Channel
- Can’t Not Laugh
- Circle (music)
- CJ ENM (Korean)
- Classic Crime TV
- Fallon Tonight
- Great Finds
- LOL! Network
- Loop (music)
- Out of This World
- Peacock Picks
- Psych
- Rotten Tomatoes
- SNL Vault
- This Old House
- USA Classic Characters
- Watch This Week
- Witching Hour
Peacock news and talk channels
- CNBC Ka-Ching
- NBC Boston News
- NBC Chicago News
- NBC Los Angeles
- NBC LX
- NBC News Now
- NBC New York News
- NBC Philadelphia News
- NBC South Florida News
- Sky News
- Today All Day
Peacock sports channels
- NBC GolfPass
- NBC Sports
- NFL Channel
- Olympic Spotlight (during Olympics)
- Premier League TV
- WWE
Peacock reality TV channels
- Bad Girls Club
- Below Deck
- Chrisley
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Million Dollar Listing
- Peacock Reality
Peacock crime documentary channels
- American Greed
- Dateline 24/7
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Race Against Crime
- Snapped
- True Crime
Peacock Spanish channels
- Caso Cerrado
- Peacock Latino
- Telemundo al Dia
