Peacock please help. (Strange noise)

Edited Date/Time 3/2/2026 5:22pm

The broadcast has been making this strange noise since A1. I’ve seen multiple people post about it. We’re past Daytona and it’s still happening! It’s happening on both my Samsung TVs and my iPhone. 

https://youtu.be/O5R_Q7LCt6U?si=bJR8dnV9xI-3anrI

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3/2/2026 5:56pm

is it the constant buzz/hum background noise been hearing it on everything from peacock

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Sounds like some sort of device vibrating at a high frequency, perhaps an elongated shape based on the resonance, and then a dulled/muffled tone indicating it may be stuck inside of something.  Super weird. Is it only Diffy's mic picking it up?   I have a hypothesis......

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3/3/2026 6:57am

Is it the drone?

 

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3/3/2026 7:26am

The strange noise you heard at Daytona was lee differ and wheel chreeestian . Everything else was normal. 

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3/3/2026 8:48am

i only hear it on my bedroom tv.   basement tv is clear    

 

i don't know man

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3/3/2026 12:24pm

Could be hearing the audibles that Ricky keeps telling us about     

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3/3/2026 12:29pm

I thought this was a thread to complain about castilian as default language in Peacock.

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3/3/2026 12:29pm

Lower third of the image was flickering constantly during the broadcast. Hope it doesn't do that again. Heard some odd background noise during Arlington, I just figured it was the director adding some fake crowd noise. 

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3/3/2026 1:18pm

Confirmed here too on multiple devices. 

Please look into this Peacock.

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3/3/2026 2:18pm

Confirmed on my TV too. Every race so far. It's not the drone. 

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3/3/2026 2:23pm

Honestly, I saw a thread a few weeks ago talking about it and I thought everyone was crazy (well I actually thought it was just the guys TV/speakers). Well, I got it this weekend. I was playing the sound through a big portable PA speaker this time instead of my normal sound bar, and I thought that was the issue, but no other programs were doing it. I should go back and watch an older race through the same speaker and see...

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Here too, so annoying 

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Well-documented. It is some kind of interference or feedback, not a drone. The sound varies between two pitches and rests 6-10 dB below the regular broadcast volume. Can't hear it when the engine noises are prominent or when someone speaks, but even then it colors the tone.

I can't believe that somebody, anybody, on the professional broadcast team hasn't yet noticed this.  

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3/4/2026 10:57am

I thought it was a live broadcast issue, but we watched Daytoner on Sunday and the sound was present in the replay.

3/4/2026 12:18pm
Falcon wrote:
Well-documented. It is some kind of interference or feedback, not a drone. The sound varies between two pitches and rests 6-10 dB below the regular broadcast...

Well-documented. It is some kind of interference or feedback, not a drone. The sound varies between two pitches and rests 6-10 dB below the regular broadcast volume. Can't hear it when the engine noises are prominent or when someone speaks, but even then it colors the tone.

I can't believe that somebody, anybody, on the professional broadcast team hasn't yet noticed this.  

No doubt. I’m gonna keep this thread at the top of the forum and hopefully someone, ANYONE will notice. 

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3/4/2026 7:30pm
Falcon wrote:
Well-documented. It is some kind of interference or feedback, not a drone. The sound varies between two pitches and rests 6-10 dB below the regular broadcast...

Well-documented. It is some kind of interference or feedback, not a drone. The sound varies between two pitches and rests 6-10 dB below the regular broadcast volume. Can't hear it when the engine noises are prominent or when someone speaks, but even then it colors the tone.

I can't believe that somebody, anybody, on the professional broadcast team hasn't yet noticed this.  

No doubt. I’m gonna keep this thread at the top of the forum and hopefully someone, ANYONE will notice. 

You'd probably have better luck if you all reached out to NBC/Peacock. I don't think there's anyone active here that works for NBC.

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3/4/2026 10:52pm

and i thought it was my tinnitus acting up 😂

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That annoying noise on Peacock? Its Leigh Diffey. 

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3/5/2026 11:29pm

Yep. Couldn’t agree more. Almost hurts my ears. I hate it. How has no one brought it up on pulp or anything? 

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3/6/2026 2:54am Edited Date/Time 3/6/2026 2:55am

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Fine on my vizio/roku, my friend watches through Xbox and hears it.

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I hear it on a Samsung TV with the Peacock app.  I do not hear the noise on any other peacock program, or any other app on the TV.  It's definitely specific to the SX broadcast.

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3/6/2026 12:03pm Edited Date/Time 3/6/2026 12:03pm

SCREECH

I've been learning Australian thanks to Diffy and Screech.   It's basically English except you replace the first vowel in each word with the last vowel in the same word, then 50% of the time sub  D to "J" and O to "OR"

"Jistin Barcia riding the new foctory Jucati".
"I was tilking to Handor HRC taam menager Lars Lorndstrim and he saad that thiir [insert 3rd party] , [insert irrelevant information]".

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3/6/2026 6:00pm
CDA331 wrote:

Yep. Couldn’t agree more. Almost hurts my ears. I hate it. How has no one brought it up on pulp or anything? 

I was thinking the same thing. I DMd Steve. We’ll see…

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3/6/2026 6:11pm

ITS YOUR EQUIPMENT!!!!! Quit buying junk people, Jesus Christ

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3/8/2026 4:56pm

Did anyone have the noise this week? I was watching on my iPad and didn’t hear it. 

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I found a couple of years ago that my ceiling fans, the ones with the ‘digital motors”, caused some background interference during broadcast.

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