Author: Luke Bouma
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Paramount+ & Pluto TV Saw Huge Growth in 1st Quarter of 2023 As Pluto TV is Now The Largest Free Streaming Service
Today Paramount reported their 1st quarter 2023 earnings with great news about their streaming services. Paramount+ reached 60 million paid subscribers. Paramounts free streaming service Pluto TV reached 80 million monthly active users. “Paramount continues to demonstrate the strength of its content engine, driving momentum across streaming, television and theatrical. This resulted in Paramount+ and…
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A Long Writers Guild Strike Could Kill Cable TV & Accelerate Cord Cutting
After weeks of talks, earlier this week, the Writers Guild of America’s deadline for a new deal to avoid a strike came and went. Now the WGA has officially started to strike, leading to the first major strike since of the WGA since 2007. At issue here is how writers are paid for content on…
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Comcast Blocks The Channels DVR Service From Recording NBC, Bravo, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, & More
Recently Comcast moved to block the popular DVR service Channels from being able to record its streamed programs. Channels is a service that allows customers to record from their antenna and in the past, also record programs streamed through TV anywhere apps. Now Comcast has moved to block their ability to do that, preventing users…
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Bally Sports Sues The NBA Phoenix Suns & WNBA Mercury For Breach of Contract Over Streaming Deal
Last week the NBA Suns and the WNBA Mercury announced a deal with Gray Television that would put both teams’ games on broadcast TV and streaming for free online. Previously both teams had deals with the RSN Bally Sports. Now Bally Sports says this deal breaks their contract and violates bankruptcy law. A statement made…
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Babylon 5 is Coming Back As an Animated Movie
Today it was announced that the hit 1990s sci-fi show Babylon 5 is getting a new movie, and this time it will be animated. Details are thin but creator J. Michael Straczynski says he will announce the release date, title, and more one week from today. There have been reports that some of the original…
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Fortnite is Now Available on Amazon’s Fire TV & Amazon Luna
Today Amazon announced that customers in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom can now play Fortnite on their Fire TVs and Fire Tablets. The best part is Amazon Prime members can play the game for free with their Prime membership. You can also get the game as part of Amazon’s cloud gaming…
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Haystack News is Adding More Free News Channels in May 2023
Today the free news service Haystack News which brings a combination of local and national news together into a single place, announced the addition of there new channels, including full coverage of the coronation of King Charles III. “Haystack News is the only place where viewers can get comprehensive coverage of the historic coronation of…
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Deal Alert! UGREEN’s 65W 3 Port USB-C Charger is On Sale & Can Charge iPhones, Pixels, Laptops & More
Do you want a USB-C charger that can charge all of your devices and even a laptop? Right now, UGREEN has their 65W charger for laptops, iPhones, Pixels, and more is on sale for just $34.85 if you clip the 15% off coupon before adding it to your cart. This is down from the typical…
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Roku Plans to Use AI to Match Ads to What You Are Watching
Do you ever feel like the ads on Roku don’t seem to be very relevant to you? Roku now wants to use AI to help match ads to what you are watching. Here is how Roku describes this new AI-powered system to target ads on Roku players and Roku TVs. “Everything we do, from our…
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Bally Sports Drove Sinclair’s Revenues Down 40% in The First Quarter of 2023
Sinclair is continuing to struggle with the ownership of Diamond Sports, the parent company of Bally Sports. Today they reported their first quarter 2023 earnings that saw revenues down 40% from the year before. Sinclair reported revenue was down 40% to $773 million. This is down from $1,288 million in the same period of 2022.…