Peacock getting multiview for Election Day, with Premier League to follow

By Phil Nickinson Published October 24, 2024

If watching a single NBC-adjacent news channel on Peacock isn’t enough to tame your election-related addiction, you’re in luck. The streaming service is adding multiview in time for the November 5 festivities with a three-view, curated experience. So it’s not quite the free-for-all multiview experience you may be used to — and that could be a good thing.

Peacock’s implementation of multiview will include breaking news, data analysis, and real-time results. You’ll be able to move around the screens, switch audio between them, and click through to watch one of them in full-screen mode.

The three views will include:

“Peacock continues to define the live streaming experience for audiences,” Kelly Campbell, president of Peacock and direct-to-consumer for NBCUniversal, said in a press release. “By expanding our popular multiview feature to election night, we’re coupling the incredible expertise of NBC News with Peacock’s leading technology to curate a customer-first way to watch election coverage.”

The multiview experience will be available starting at 6 p.m. ET on November 5 and will run until 2 a.m. or so the following morning.

And about a month later, on December 4, Peacock will resurrect the multiview experience for the English Premier League football (as in soccer) matches. You’ll be able to watch up to four matches at once.