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Nexstar Has Closed its Deal to Buy Tribune Owned ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Locals
Your local TV station may soon have a new owner. Today Nextstar Media Group has closed on its purchase of Tribune Media Company for $6.4 billion. This deal will add more than 40 stations including KTLA in Los Angeles, WPIX in New York and WGN-TV in Chicago to Nexstar’s list of locals. (Note WGN-TV has…
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Google Will Reportedly Introduce a ‘Nest Wifi’ Device Next Month
Google is reportedly planning to launch a Nest Wifi router, a new version of the company’s Google Wifi router, in October. According to sources for 9 to 5 Google, the new device will be a single hub router, with two beacons that will double as Google Assistant speakers. According to the source, other changes to…
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21% of Americans Intend to Sign Up For Disney+ Almost Double Than HBO Max
This week HarrisX released a new survey that looked at Disney+. According to this survey, 21% of American households intend to signup for Disney+. This is a huge jump over the 11% who said they plan to get HBO Max, and 10% who said they would get NBC’s new Peacock streaming service. Most American’s said…
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Former MoviePass Chairman Interested in Buying the Company
A former funder of MoviePass, Ted Farnsworth, is interested in bringing back the recently shut down subscription service. A report from Variety says that Farnsworth has submitted an offer to buy MoviePass, along with MoviePass Films – a production company started in 2018 – and Moviefone which was also acquired by the company in 2018.…
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Here is Every Movie and TV Show That Will Be Available on Disney+ At Launch
Previously, we’ve shared lists of the original content being developed for Disney+, as well as more details about existing Disney, Pixar, Fox, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic programming that will be available. Now that viewers in The Netherlands are trying out the streaming service, we’re getting a look at the full catalog. Keep in…
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Chase Credit Card Users Can Get a Discount on fuboTV & Vudu
Like other credit card companies, Chase has special offers for their customers, offering deals and discounts at stores, restaurants, and more. One Cord Cutters News reader noticed two new offers this month, from fuboTV and Vudu. Here are two that are currently available for some Chase customers: fuboTV: $15 back Earn $15 back when you…
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AT&T is Reportedly NOT Planning on Selling DIRECTV
Yesterday WSJ reported that AT&T planned to spinoff or sell DIRECTV’s satellite service. Now CNBC is reporting that AT&T is NOT looking to sell DIRECTV according to CNBC’s sources. This news comes as the investment group Elliott Management announced it now owns $3.2 billion of AT&T stock and that it’s pushing for AT&T to sell…
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PlayStation Vue May Soon Lose HBO & Cinemax
Today Sony warned PlayStation Vue subscribers that they soon may lose Cinemax and HBO. This news comes as Dish recently dropped HBO from both DISH and Sling TV packages. AT&T reportedly demanded a price hike and asked Dish to guarantee a minimum number of HBO subscribers. Dish pushed back saying they didn’t want to force…
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Spectrum, Altice, & Cable One Have an Internet Monopoly in Over Half of Their Markets
Over the last few years, we have seen a growing number of services try to launch high-speed Internet options to compete with traditional cable and DSL Internet. The hope has been to offer true competition for home Internet. Now according to a report from Grounded Reason, we get an idea of why more competition is…
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Pluto TV Adds This Old House & Roblox to Its Growing Library of Channels
Yesterday Pluto TV added 9 new channels. We already announced 7 of them as Pluto TV added VH1 Unscripted, VH1 Hip Hop Family, BET Her, BET Homecoming, VH1 Love & Hip Hop, VH1 Black Ink Crew, and VH1 RuPaul’s Drag Race. The two additional channels are This Old House and Roblox. Here is how Pluto…
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Roku’s New OS 9.2 Includes Faster Channel Loading, Improved Voice Commands, and More
Today, Roku announced that OS 9.2 will begin rolling out to Roku devices in the coming weeks. With this update, Roku users will be able to access content more quickly and will have new ways to control the home entertainment experience. Roku also announced new Roku Players today and you can learn more about them…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Americans Stream Over an Hour of Video Every Day According To a New Study
By 2021, the average person will spend 100 minutes per day watching online video according to a study from Zenith. Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report shows that viewers are currently watching 84 minutes per day. “The consumption of online video is growing rapidly, and the average person will spend half as much time viewing…
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Amazon is Reportedly Testing Automatic Commercial Skipping On The Fire TV Recast DVR
Next week Amazon is holding a big event to announce new hardware. Today though it seems Amazon may have started to test a new feature for their Fire TV Recast DVR according to reports from Cord Cutters News readers. Reports are beginning to come in that Amazon has updated some Fire TV Recast DVRs to…
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AT&T is Reportedly Considering Selling DIRECTV’s Satellite Service
UPDATE: CNBC is now disputing this story. You can read more here. Today The Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T is entertaining the possibility of selling its DIRECTV satellite service. According to the report, AT&T is “exploring parting ways with DIRECTV.” This comes a day after Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said that a merged DIRECTV…
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Why Do Ads Keep Repeating on My Streaming Service? (Guest Post)
By: Allen Klosowski, SVP, Advanced Solutions Group at SpotX If you stream TV over the internet, chances are you’ve experienced a time when the same ad plays over and over again. In the marketing world, there has been research to support that messages are more effective when repeated. So, there is a concerted effort to…
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