Telemundo is also owned by the same branch of NBCUniversal as bluprint, FYI. From what I understand, there is some issue of the on demand with them as well...and they are a silent partner in Hulu. It is actually pretty amazing WHAT they have their finger in, really.
And yes, peacock opens 7-15 and bluprint is closing about 7-22.
My conspiracy theory on this: they made the WARN and had to notify the workers, including the upper echelon, and did so the day that was filed. Educators are technically independent contractors and thus not needed for notification. However, Levisay sent the email to them because he himself had just found out and started a ball rolling NBC did not plan on happening. We, the consumer and the educators, was NOT supposed to know about this.
In the WARN, they are closing on or about 7-22, with everyone gone by 8-31. This latter date allows the IT department to change formats to peacock.
In my theory, I believe that NBC planned on the service to segue into peacock with all of us subscribers being seamlessly integrated sometime by 8-31...all our stuff and content was to be there, but they got rid of "forever" classes on the new platform. They'd be on the platform, but access was changed to just the peacock platform, as long as you paid the sub price.
I do believe this was supposed to be hush hush, we'd get a bit of a free time out of it for the forever classes/paid subscription to bluprint, but that they would come out of it ahead financially. I also believe that the educators weren't supposed to know so contracts could be redone, so they made a smaller amount because of the larger service and no longer on a paid per view or purchase, but smaller royalty rights per quarter based on the whole of peacock's library.
I can't prove a bit of this, and I would be surprised if it happened this way now...but I do believe this was going to benefit NBC immensely, and a fly got into that ointment. Oh, I think some classes will wind up on peacock still (not all now)...but someone leaked and put a huge fly in the ointment for them.