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Charter Cable Customers to Get Free NBC Streaming in Latest Deal

  • Spectrum cable customers to get ad-supported Peacock platform
  • Charter has made multiple deals to add streaming services

A Spectrum store in New York.

Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg
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Charter Communications Inc. struck a deal with Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal that will give its cable-television customers access to the Peacock streaming service at no extra cost, as traditional TV providers fight to keep customers from cord-cutting.

The multiyear distribution agreement will make the ad-supported version of Peacock available to Charter’s Spectrum TV Select subscribers in the coming months, the companies said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.