Category: News
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NEXTGEN ATSC 3.0 TV Will Launch in Chicago in February On a New Station
NEXTGEN TV will launch on CBS 2 News Chicago in February, one of the first rollouts scheduled for 2024. The upgraded signal will launch on February 5, 2024, and is expected to provide free service to 3.6 million households. Viewers who use an antenna to watch TV must rescan their televisions after this date to…
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ESPN and the College Football Playoff Are Working on a 6-Year Rights Contract
ESPN and The College Football Playoff, CFP, are negotiating an agreement that would make the sports network the event’s sole rights holder for the next eight years. The deal would tack on a new 6-year agreement onto the final two years of ESPN’s current contract with CFP, sources told ESPN. The current contract is set…
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Amazon’s New Fire Max 11 Tablet is On Sale For Just $179.99
Do you need a tablet to stream your favorite movie or TV show? Amazon’s most powerful and largest tablet, the new Fire Max 11, is on sale right now for $179.99, that’s $70 off the list price of $229.99. This new Fire Max 11 tablet has 14 hours of battery life, 125GB of storage, and…
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Telly, the Company Offering Free TVs, Shows Off ChatGPT-Powered Voice Assistant at CES
Free TV company, Telly, debuted its new artificial intelligence voice assistant, “Hey Telly,” at CES 2024. “Hey Telly” is powered by ChatGPT and aims to deliver consumers a “completely transformed home entertainment and the virtual voice assistant experience.” The voice assistant, which will launch with a voice command from the second smart screen, will enhance…
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How to Watch the Fifth Republican Presidential Debate on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More on January 10
Live from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, tonight is the first Republican Presidential debate of 2024 and the fifth of this election cycle. Three candidates qualified for tonight’s debate – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former President Donald Trump, however, only Haley and DeSanits are expected to be on…
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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…