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CBS All Access 1 Month FREE Trial is Back (This Weekend Only)
CBS All-Access now offers over 8,500 episodes on demand of award winning CBS content. New episodes are added the next day and in a growing list of areas you also get a live stream of your local CBS affiliate. Currently, CBS All-Access is available on smart phones, tablets, PCs, Macs, Roku, Fire TV, Xbox 360, Xbox…
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FOX Teams Up With AT&T to Test 4K Streaming Over 5G
5G has been a dream of cord cutters for years, and the idea of true competition coming to the home internet market is now looking like a reality. In their effort to roll out 5G home internet later this year, AT&T has teamed up with FOX to test 4K streaming over 5G. During this test,…
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DIRECTV NOW is Giving $75 Credits to 1st Gen Fire TV & Fire Stick Owners
Back in April DIRECTV NOW suddenly dropped support for 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick with no warning. When 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick owners opened their DIRECTV NOW app, they found a message notifying them that they needed to update their app. Sadly when they tried to update the app, they…
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Study: The Top 5 Reasons People Ditch Cable For Cord Cutting
This week at the Denver Pay TV Show, Joel Espelien, a senior analyst at TDG opened up about their cord cutting studies. One of the most interesting was a look at what finally made people move to cord cutting. Often people have been thinking about cord cutting and plan to do it, but TDG recently…
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Charter’s SVP Says They Have to “Become Better” At Delivering Content People Want in the Face of Cord Cutting
Today at the Pay TV Show in Denver, Gary Schanman, the SVP of Video Products at Charter Communications, opened up about cord cutting. Schanman says everyone wants content; we have to figure out how they want their content. Charter has to “become better” at delivering the content people want. The moderator, Mike Dano from Firececable,…
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AT&T Plans to Double LTE Speeds in 500 Markets This Year
Yesterday AT&T announced plans to double their LTE speeds in 500 markets thanks to their investment in FirstNet. FirstNet is the wireless network used by first responders and AT&T is upgrading their system in response to their FirstNet contract. AT&T will be physically upgrading towers in over 500 markets. “We have to climb every cell…
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YouTube TV Adds The TYT Network
Today YouTube TV added The Young Turks Network. This brings a new 24-hour news service to YouTube TV helping them expand their news coverage. ABOUT ‘THE YOUNG TURKS’ AND TYT NETWORK TYT Network is the largest online talk, news and entertainment networks for the connected generation. The award-winning TYT is one of the top multi-platform…
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YouTube TV Adds Tastemade to Their Lineup
Today YouTube TV announced the addition of Tastemade to their lineup. Tastemade will deliver original programs on categories of food, home, and travel, and provide a 24/7 linear channel with hundreds of hours of original programing, including 10 new episodic series to roll out over the next year, plus live programming and thematic blocks. “When we…
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How To Watch The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
This Saturday, May 19th 2018 The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will air live starting at 9 am Eastern. The good news is the streaming it will be easy as almost every local will have the event and many cable networks like BBC America and news networks like CNN will also have…
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In Time For The World Cup fuboTV Adds 8 New FOX, NBC, and Telemundo Affiliates
In June the 2018 World Cup gets underway and fuboTV is adding more locals to make sure their customers have full access. Here is a break down of fuboTV’s national local coverage: FOX coverage in 91% of U.S. households, including 50 of the top 50 and 136 markets total. NBC coverage in 74% of U.S. households, including 19 of…
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YouTube is Rolling Out YouTube Premium to Replace YouTube Red
Today YouTube announced they are replacing YouTube Red with YouTube Premium. This makes way for a new YouTube Music Premium service separate from YouTube Premium. Here is how it breaks down: The new YouTube Premium includes: The new YouTube Music: ad-free, with background listening and downloads More, bigger original series and movies Ad-free, background play,…
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PlayStation Vue Cuts Their Free Trial Back to 5 Days
Sadly if you missed out on the 14-day PlayStation Vue free trial you may be out of luck. About a week ago PlayStation Vue increased their free trial from 5 to 14 days. Now it looks like Sony has changed their free trial back to 5 days. To fight against growing competition PlayStation Vue recently…
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Sling TV’s President Says The Cost of Locals Will Likely Be $15 a Month Next Year
Yesterday at the Denver Pay TV Show, Sling TV’s President Warren talked about the future of over-the-air TV. One of the points he hammered home was the high cost of locals and the advantages of an antenna. Warren said the cost of locals on your traditional pay-TV service next year will likely be $15 a…
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Babylon 5 is Coming to Amazon Prime in June
Fans of Babylon 5 have for years hoped for their favorite show to end up on a subscription streaming service. After a short stay on go90, it looks like Babylon 5 fans have good news. Today on Twitter the creator of Babylon 5 announced that all 5 seasons of the show will be coming to Amazon…
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Plex Rolls Out a New Nvidia Shield Update Adding SD & USB Storage
PLEX today updated their app on the Nvidia SHIELD with the ability to migrate SHIELD server data to external storage. This allows 16GB SHIELD owners the ability to serve large PLEX libraries without having to use local storage. This allows you to have more storage options for your DVR with Plex or your local media. Making Plex on…
