5 CES Takeaways, From $3,000 Pet Robots to NBCUniversal’s Peacock Stuck in the Nest

Sean Burch

Everyone from Ivanka Trump to Jeffrey Katzenberg turned up in Las Vegas this week for the consumer technology confab known as CES. More than 4,000 exhibitors showed off the newest high-tech gadgets, while Katenberg and former Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman detailed plans for their new streaming service Quibi — while NBCUniversal execs delivered a keynote address that notably opaque about its own new streamer, Peacock. Here are five takeaways from this year’s event that stood out to us: 1. Peacock Plans Will Just Have to Wait If you went to CES to get a look at the shows coming to two major streaming services, you likely left underwhelmed. NBCUniversal’s keynote address on Wednesday afternoon at the Park MGM offered no new information on the Peacock streaming service the company plans to launch this spring. How much will it cost? Wasn’t mentioned. A preview of shows like its reboot of “Saved by the Bell?” Not provided. A firm launch date? Nope. Maybe this was to be expected. NBCU already has an investor day scheduled for next week to discuss Peacock. But in that case, why book Linda Yaccarino, the company’s chairman of advertising and sales, to deliver a CES keynote...

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