Category: News
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A NextGen TV Broadcast Channel As Interactive As a Streaming App Could Be ATSC 3.0’s Killer App
I’m sitting in a suite at the Cosmopolitan, staring at a large Sony television as a music video for Adam Lambert’s Take Back plays. I don’t like the song, so I hit skip and it moves to the next one, personalized based on the user history from the television. On the bottom are several boxes…
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Amazon Is Laying off Hundreds of Prime Video & MGM Studios Employees
Today Amazon reportedly contacted staff at Prime Video and Amazon’s MGM Studios to announce a new round of layoffs. This is the newest round of layoffs at Prime Video, with the last round being in late 2022. According to Amazon’s video chief, Mike Hopkins, Amazon has “identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain…
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MLB’s Court Hearing With Bally Sports is Delayed As 3 More MLB Teams Maybe Dropped
Last month, during a court hearing, MLB lawyers said that a framework had been reached for a deal to have Bally Sports air the 2024 MLB season. The catch is three of the remaining MLB teams may be dropped by Bally Sports or have their contracts changed. Today was to be the court date to…
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Dish Gets $50 Million From The Biden Administration to Bring Competition to Wireless
Today, it was announced that DISH has received $50 million from the Biden administration to help it build out its wireless network. The goal of the Biden administration’s investment of $50 million with this grant into DISH is to help bring competition to the wireless market. This is part of a bigger push to limit…
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YouTube TV Updates Its Channel Guide
This week, YouTube TV made a small but important change to its user guide. This comes as YouTube TV has slowly been making improvements to YouTube TV’s app with new features over the last year. This change now brings you back to the last channel you watched on the channel guide instead of always bringing…
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DISH & Sling TV Are Laying Off 150 Employees Just After Laying Off 500 Staff
DISH Network is once again cutting jobs as the company moves to reduce operational costs and expenses throughout the business. Echo Star the new parent company of DISH and Sling TV has announced it will lay off 150 more staff. This comes as DISh has been restructuring the company since 2020. In total DISH has…
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T-Mobile Has the Best Network Experience and Faster Speeds Than Verizon and AT&T for the Second Year in a Row
T-Mobile has had a strong start to 2024. The mobile “un-carrier” said it ranked first for all overall network experience metrics along with 5G download speeds, coverage experience, availability, and consistent quality experience, according to a new Opensignal report. “Did we mention it was a clean sweep?” T-Mobile said of its overall experience wins in…
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Comcast, Spectrum, Cox, & More Make “Great Strides” Toward the Launch of 10G Internet
CableLabs, a research and development group for the cable industry, said it made great strides in delivering super high-speed internet to customers last year. The lab’s collaborative initiative combines several technologies to support speeds up to 10 Gbps downstream soon and lower latency. The lab said 10G internet is “closer to realization,” and it has…
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Twitch Lays Off 500 Employees About 35% of Its Workforce
Today, Amazon reportedly laid off 500 employees at the live streaming service Twitch, or about 35% of its workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg. This comes as, in early 2023, Amazon laid off about 400 employees. Twitch focuses heavily on streaming live gaming streams but has expanded in recently years to stream a wide…
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The Fire TV Stick 4K Max & The Fire TV Cube Is On Sale & You Get 6 Months of MGM+ Free
Need a new Fire TV? Good news both the new Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Cube are on sale. Back in October, Amazon released a new Fire TV Stick 4K Max that is a significant step up from the older model. The new Fire TV Stick 4K Max has 16GB of…