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YouTube TV Wins The Bidding War For PlayStation Vue Subscribers as Sony Promotes The Service
Well, it looks like YouTube TV may have been the winner of the recent bidding war to get access to PlayStation Vue subscribers. Today Sony sent an email to PlayStation Vue subscribers encouraging them to switch to YouTube TV. Last week we learned that Sony had put uprights to get access to PlayStation Vue’s 500,000…
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Tubi Now Supports Voice Casting for Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max
Today, it was announced that the free streaming service Tubi is now available on Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. Those with the devices can now use voice commands to find and launch content on Tubi. This update comes just in time for the holidays. Tubi has a large selection of holiday movies available to…
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Peacock Will Include Live TV, Tiered Pricing
NBC’s Peacock streaming service will set itself apart from competitors by offering live video and tiered pricing structure including limited-advertising version that will cost about $5 per month and an advertising-free version that will cost about $10 per month, according to sources for CNBC. NBC is adding the live TV feature, as well as looking…
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LG Will Add ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV Tuners To Some 2020 Smart TVs
As we prepare for CES 2020, LG is being recognized for its innovation in technology with CES Innovation Awards. In the announcement about these awards, we also got a look at some of the updates LG is making to their products. One update stood out. We learned that LG will be incorporating the ATSC 3.0…
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beIN Sports Launches a Free OTA Sports Channel in 15 Markets
Today, beIN Sports announced in a press release that HC2 Broadcasting will carry beIN Sports Xtra. This will be the second 24/7 live sports channel to be available for free on over the air TV behind Stadium. beIN Sports Xtra will be available in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas – Fort Worth, Houston, San Jose…
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PlayStation Vue Finally Posts a Warning About The Shutdown In Its App
Back in October Sony announced that PlayStation Vue is shutting down on January 30th, 2020. This news came after it was reported that Sony had tried to find someone to buy the service earlier this year. Now Sony has finally posted a warning inside the PlayStation Vue app notifying customers that it will shut down…
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Locast Launches a Legal Defense Fund Asking for $500,000 to Fight ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC
Locast is a free streaming service offering access to local channels in a handful of markets. Recently, they got hit with a lawsuit from the major broadcasters trying to shut down the service. The networks filed the suit against Locast last July, claiming that the service was violating their copyright by retransmitting signals of their local…
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ViacomCBS Buys 49% of MIRAMAX For $375 Million
Today ViacomCBS announced that they have purchased 49% of MIRAMAX. This gives ViacomCBS joint ownership of MIRAMAX’s catalog of 700 titles, 278 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars® including four Best Picture awards for Chicago, Shakespeare In Love, The English Patient, and No Country For Old Men. beIN will retain a 51% stake in MIRAMAX and MIRAMAX’s current leadership team…
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Antennas Are More Popular Than Cable TV, Internet TV, and Satellite Combined
According to a Deloitte Insights report, antenna usage is on the rise and set to become the dominant means of watching TV in 2020. In fact, the analysts at Deloitte estimate that 1.6 billion people worldwide, including 450 million households, will watch at least some TV with an antenna. “Our estimate of 1.6 billion antenna…
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Netflix Has More of IMDb’s Top 250 Movies, More Than Disney+, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO
While many Netflix subscribers have been talking about the streaming service’s shrinking movie collection, Netflix tops the list of streaming services carrying films from IMDb’s Top 250 Movies list. Kill the Cable Bill looked at the libraries from several top streaming services and compared them to the IMDb list. Here’s what they found. Netflix had…
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Apple is Reportedly Working on Building a Internet Service
Today Bloomberg reported that Apple has a team of engineers working on building an internet service. According to the report, a dozen engineers from aerospace, satellite, and antenna design industries are working on the project to beam data from space down to Apple devices. Apple reportedly plans to start offering the service within five years.…
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AT&T Warns That DIRECTV Could Lose Local Channels After STELA Expires
Right now, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) is set to expire in just over a week. STELA gives satellite services like DISH and AT&T access to local channels among other things. Now AT&T has come out and publicly warned that if this rule expires DIRECTV would lose access to local channels. The…
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Update: Hulu is Now Back Online
If you’re trying to access Hulu and running into problems, you aren’t alone. Hulu subscribers across the country are reporting that the streaming service is down. Hulu support has been responding to tweets about the outage for the past couple hours, sending responses saying that they’re aware of the issue, making it a high priority,…
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The Weather Channel’s New Free Streaming Service Launches Today
Today The Weather Channel is launching a free streaming service called Local Now Plus. With Local Now Plus, cord cutters will be able to stream local news, weather and even free movies without a cable TV subscription. Local Now Plus launched today, December 19th, 2019. It includes more than 150 movie titles that all users…
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Kiswe and FITE Partner to Stream Combat Sports Internationally
Kiswe, a company offering cloud based solutions to promote TV viewer engagement, and FITE, the premium digital streaming platform for combat sports, have teamed up. The partnership will combine FITE’s on-demand programming with Kiswe’s cloud-based technology to bring combat sports events to viewers around the world. “We continually seek enhancements and value for our events…
