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Apple Announces a New Scripted Original Show SWAGGER
Yesterday Apple and Imagine Television announced a new partnership to produce SWAGGER. The show comes from NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Media and Imagine Television. Inspired by Durant’s youth basketball experiences, Swagger explores the world of AAU basketball in the nation’s capital and the players, their families, and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams…
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Roku Ended 2017 on A Strong Note
Yesterday Roku announced their fourth quarter 2017 earnings, and to the surprise of many reported total revenues of $188.3M. Overall revenues are up 28%, driven by platform revenue growth of 129%, which made up for a single-digit decline in player revenue. Gross profit rose 64% to $73.5M in the fourth quarter of 2017. Average revenue…
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Net Neutrality Will Officially End April 23, 2018
Over the last few weeks I have been hearing a lot of people blaming the end of Net Neutrality for all kinds of woes right now. Yet Net Neutrality is still in effect and won’t start being phased out until April 23, 2018. Yes on April 23, 2018, parts of Net Neutrality will end, but…
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YouTube TV Is Adding the MLB Network (Just Not Today)
Last week Google announced that YouTube TV will be adding a ton of new content and markets. One of the biggest news stories was plans to add the MLB Network just in time for the start of the 2018 MLB season. The bad news is, it has not happened yet. Since the announcement went live…
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DIRECTV NOW Is In a Race to Beat Sling TV
There is a battle for your streaming dollar and DIRECTV NOW is spending big to win. This week Sling TV announced that they now have 2.212 million subscribers. They are the clear winner for number of subscribers, but DIRECTV NOW quickly went on the offensive reaching out to newsgroups to let everyone know DIRECTV NOW…
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A Federal Judge Is Accusing Disney of “Copyright Misuse” in Fight with Redbox
Recently Disney filed a lawsuit against Redbox in an effort to stop them from selling digital download codes. The issue comes as a result of Redbox buying Disney DVDs and Blu-rays with digital codes inside the box. Redbox has been renting the discs and selling the codes to Redbox customers. Disney claimed that was copyright…
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Here is Everything New on Crackle in March 2018
New Crackle Originals: The Oath (Premieres with all 10-episdoes on Thursday, March 8) What’s New Enough Available One Month Only: Absolute Deception Anacondas: The Hunt for The Blood Orchid Animal Kingdom Arena Assassination Games Bad News Bears Balls Out Basic Instinct Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest Beverly Hills Ninja Blade II* Blade:…
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Expired: Amazon’s FreeTime is On Sale
Today Amazon has a special deal on their kids friendly subscription service for Fire Tablets, Kindle E-Readers, and the Fire TV. Right now you can get 3-month FreeTime family plan for just $3.99 typically $29.99. With that subscription, your kids get access to 13,000 kid-friendly, books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, and games. The best part…
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Amazon Teams Up With Televisa to Produce Multicultural Characters & Storytelling
This week Groupo Televisa said it is launching a new content division called Televisa Alternative Originals. This new division will make multiple series for Amazon featuring multicultural characters and storytelling for Amazon Prime Video. Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia company and is the largest in Central America as well as in all of the Spanish-speaking world.…
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Fox News Officially Announces a New Subscription Streaming Service
This week we reported that Fox News was planning on releasing a subscription standalone streaming service. Now Fox has made it official that the Fox News Channel will offer a subscription streaming service that cord cutters can access without a cable subscription. (Want to stream Fox News right now? We have a full guide on…
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Sling TV Adds NBA League Pass
Today Sling TV announced that they have added NBA League Pass as an add-on to their live TV streaming service. Now you watch out of market NBA games and mange it all through your Sling TV subscription. “By introducing NBA League Pass, along with its Team Pass offering as optional add-ons, we continue to give our…
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Netflix Now Has Fewer Movies But More TV Shows Compared to 2010
If you have been a Netflix subscriber, you have likely noticed that their catalog of streaming movies and TV shows have changed over the last few years. Last year Netflix announced plans to make half of their content Netflix originals. Now it looks like they didn’t stop there. According to the Netflix search engine Flixable,…
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CentruryLink is Looking to Team Up With a Live TV Streaming Service
Yesterday we learned that CenturyLink was shutting down their live TV streaming service called CenturyLink Stream. Now Centurylink has confirmed that they are looking to partner with a live TV streaming service to replace their CenturyLink Stream service. “CenturyLink continually evaluates the products and services we offer and makes changes when and where needed,” a…
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Dish Plans to Spend a $1 Billion to Roll Out 5G
We have known for some time that Dish was planning to roll out 5G internet service across the United States. Yesterday Dish gave more details about their plans to roll out their new 5G service. During the call Dish announced that they plan to cover 70 percent of the United States in each of the…
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This Week NBC Tested Out 3.0 OTA By Airing the Olympics in 4K
The new ATSC 3.0 OTA TV standard is now official, and broadcasters are slowly testing it out. The goal is to bring 4K video and a host of other new features, including better coverage, to OTA TV. This week as part of the effort to bring 3.0 OTA TV NBC aired part of their Winter…
