Peacock is no longer offering subscribers the option to watch live broadcasts of Morning Joe and Squawk Box. While the popular programs haven’t been entirely removed from the streaming service, subscribers will now need to tune in at a later time to watch a delayed on-demand version.
What’s interesting here is just how quickly support for the live versions has been removed. After all, Peacock only began streaming MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CNBC’s Squawk Box in early 2023, and as part of a wider investment in live news.
Less than one year later and the live versions are now gone. While it remains to be seen exactly when support ended, today’s versions were notably missing. Since then, Peacock’s help account on X (@PeacockTVCare) has been confirming the live versions of both shows are no longer available through the streaming service.
The Peacock help account also confirmed that on-demand versions will continue to be available to subscribers.
As the availability of on-demand versions are delayed, Peacock subscribers will have to wait until later to watch the most recent Morning Joe and Squawk Box episodes. According to one of the help account’s responses, “episodes of Morning Joe will become available to stream on Peacock later the same day that they’re broadcast.”
Naturally, subscribers that primarily signed up to the service to watch these morning news shows have not been taking this change well and are looking for an explanation. In one response on X, the help account explained the decision by stating “Peacock regularly rotates content to enhance our user experience.”
In a different reply, the following was offered an explanation for the removal.
“As we continue to grow, we’re constantly evaluating and evolving our strategy to best serve our partners and viewers. NBCUniversal remains committed to investing in both its linear and DTC video offerings.”
@PeacockTVCare
As far as we can tell, this change has resulted in the entire news hub having been removed from Peacock. For example, the Morning News Live landing page is also no longer accessible and now returns an “Oops! This page doesn’t exist” message instead.
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