Type Subsidiary Owner NBCUniversal Founded 15 July 2007 | Industry Television production Headquarters New York City | |
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Key people Sharon Scott, president Website www.peacockproductions.tv Profiles | ||
Peacock Productions is a long-form production unit of NBC News. The division, established on July 15, 2007, produces factual programming such as news specials, documentary specials, and reality series. While some of its productions do air on other NBCUniversal outlets (such as the NBC network and MSNBC), it produces programs for competing broadcasters as well, such as the networks of A&E Networks and Discovery among others. Peacock has served as an incubator for new production technologies that have later been adopted by NBC News, such as tapeless recording.
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History
Peacock was established on July 15, 2007 by the merger of NBC News Productions & NBC Media Productions, along with the staff of NBC's newsmagazine Dateline. The merger came in response to the growing popularity of non-fiction programming on television (with a particular emphasis on cable channels and digital outlets), and in the wake of a recent series of budget cuts at NBC Universal that affected NBC News's long-form production units
In May 2012, Marc Victor was placed in charged of the newly formed TOMORROW production division of Peacock.
In 2013, Peacock produced Skywire Live for Discovery Channel, a live special that featured Nik Wallenda's crossing of the Little Colorado River gorge near Grand Canyon National Park.