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A Date Has Been Set for When 3.0 OTA TV Will Roll Out For Cord Cutters
This week at the 2018 NAB Show in New York, executives from FOX television stations; NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Group; Univision; TEGNA, Inc. (for Pearl TV), and Nexstar Media Group (for SpectrumCo) announced their support for the new ATSC 3.0 OTA TV. This next generation standard will bring 4K HDR and better reception to…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Tops 25 Million Active Users
Amazon recently announced that they topped 25 million users over the summer. Now Amazon has announced that since Prime Day 2018 they have sold millions of additional Fire TV devices with the Fire TV Stick being the best-selling product across Amazon globally. Amazon has been in a tough battle with Roku, Apple, and Google for…
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Season Seven of Netflix’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Will Be Its Last
Sadly we have bad news for fans of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black as it was announced today that season seven will be the last season. “During production of Season 1, everyone involved with Orange Is the New Black felt like we knew a special secret we couldn’t wait to share with the world,” said Cindy…
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fuboTV Just Added 17 New CBS Locals
Today fuboTV announced that they have added 17 new CBS locals bringing the total number of live locals on fuboTV to 516. This includes: FOX coverage in 94% of U.S. households, including 50 of the top 50 and 147 total DMAs (112 stations plus network feeds in 35 additional markets). CBS coverage in 82% of U.S.…
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Here is Everything New on Sony Crackle in November 2018
New This Month: A Few Good Men Absolute Deception Angel of Death Babel Beverly Hills Cop 3 Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich Bottle Rocket Chill Factor Clive Barker’s the Plague Company of Heroes Crave Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Freaks of Nature Freejack Glory Heist Home Invasion How Do You Know I Know…
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The DOJ’s Appeal of the AT&T/Time Warner Merger Gets a Date in Court
Last year the DOJ had called on AT&T and Time Warner to sell all or part of the Turner Broadcasting Group—the group of cable networks that includes CNN—or to sell off DIRECTV and keep the cable networks as a potential requirement for approving the pending deal. After AT&T refused, the DOJ sued to block the…
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Stadium Will Soon Start Streaming Classic College Football Games on Twitch For FREE
Today Stadium announced that they have teamed up with Twitch to stream classic ACC college football games hosted by Michael Felder and a studio guest. Viewers will be able to ask questions and play trivia games during the stream to win “Fresh Beef for a Year” from Wendy’s the title sponsor of the stream. The…
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Roku Just Announced a New Line of Roku TVs From Magnavox
Today Magnavox and Roku announced that their new line of Roku TVs are now available at BJ’s Wholesale Club and coming soon to Sam’s Club stores. They will start at 23″ TVs and go up to a 50″ 1080p HD Roku TV. “Smart is no longer expensive,” said Youssef Ibrahim, Sr. Product Marketing Manager. “With the…
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Starz is Adding a Ton of Halloween Movies & TV Shows
Today Starz announced the full slate of Halloween movies and TV shows they are offering on their subscription on-demand service. The service comes with a 7-day free trial and costs $8.99 a month. Here is every Halloween TV show and Moive Starz currently offers: Halloween Stunt 13 Sins 2014 30 Days Of Night 2007 American…
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FOX, NBC, Telemundo, Univision, & More Commit Their Support to Next Gen 3.0 OTA TV
Today at the 2018 NAB Show in New York executives from FOX Television Stations; NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Group; Univision; TEGNA, Inc. (for Pearl TV), and Nexstar Media Group announced a new collaborative effort to support the introduction of ATSC 3.0. This is the next generation of over the air TV that promises to…
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Hulu is Adding a Dark Mode
Hate the bright white background on Hulu? We have good news starting today Hulu will be rolling out a night mode (aka a dark mode) that will change the background on Hulu’s website to a dark grey. Hulu is joining other services like YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Wikipedia, and more in rolling out a darker background.…
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T-Mobile Plans to Take on Comcast & Spectrum With Their New 5G Home Internet Service
Recently in an FCC filing, T-Mobile laid out their plans to roll out a 5G home to millions of Americans. According to the FCC filing, Sprint and T-Mobile said they plan to offer high-speed 5G to 52% of the United States over the next five years. Part of this is a plan to cover 64%…
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Facebook is Working On a Streaming Player to Take on Roku, Amazon, & Apple
Are you ready for one more streaming player? Now it is being reported by Cheddar that Facebook is working on a streaming player that will sit on top of your TV with a built-in camera and streaming apps. This new device is reportedly codenamed Ripley and will come with Facebook Watch built-in along with 3rd party…
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AT&T is Shutting Down Their DramaFever Streaming Service
This week AT&T announced that they plan to shut down the Korean focused streaming service DramaFever. Founded back in 2009 DramaFever was acquired by Warner Bros. which was later sold to AT&T as part of the Time Warner merger. The service offered 13,000 episodes for just $4.99 a month. “Today, Warner Bros. Digital Networks will…
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Review: Hisense R6 Roku TV With 4K HDR
Recently we got our hands on the Hisense R6 Roku TV. This is a new higher-end Roku TVs currently being sold by Hisense. Roku now has a growing nubmer of Roku TV makers but Hisense has been one of the long-term partners with to make Roku TVs for Roku. Today for the first time we…
