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Expired: Black Friday Deals: Amazon Announces Their Fire TV Black Friday Sale
Today Amazon announced some of their Black Friday deals including deals on the Fire TV. This will include $15 off the 2018 Fire TV Stick 4K and $60 off the 2018 Fire TV Cube. Here is the full breakdown: (Just remember these deals won’t go live until sometime around Black Friday. We will post again when…
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AMC Now Owns Acorn TV & The Urban Movie Channel
This week AMC Networks closed on their deal to buy Rober Johnson RLJ Entertainment the parent company behind subscription services Acorn TV and the Urban Movie Channel. This deal was first announced back in July but only officially closed this week. AMC already had a part ownership of RLJ Entertainment with a 30.1% share. Now AMC…
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Pluto TV Adds BUZZR With Access to 24/7 Game Shows
If you love game shows Buzzr is the network for you. Previously if you wanted to watch Buzzr you had to hope it was available with your antenna. Recently Buzzr launched a free stream on their website. Now Buzzr has started to offer a free 24/7 stream on Pluto TV. Now you can watch Buzzr through…
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Black Friday Deal: Roku Streaming Players Up To $50 Off
As November gets underway we are starting to get an idea of what Black Friday will look like. This week Target announced their Black Friday deals including the 2018 Roku Ultra for just $49.99, a $50 savings over the $99.99 list price. You can also find the 2017 Roku Stick for just $29.99, down from…
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PlayStation Vue Rolls Out a Revamped Fire TV App
This week Sony rolled out a new Fire TV app with a slightly updated look. Now you will find changes like Explore being replaced with an “OnDemand” section. One of the biggest changes is improved performance. Multiple readers have reported that switching channels seems to happen a lot faster than on older versions. Some have…
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AT&T’s WarnerMedia Accuses Sling TV & Dish of ‘Collaborating’ With The DOJ
Yesterday HBO went dark on Dish and the Dish owned streaming service Sling TV. Over the last 24 hours, the fireworks between AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Dish have been heating up. AT&T accuses Dish of walking away from talks but Dish counters that AT&T was demanding “DISH pay for a guaranteed number of subscribers, regardless of how many consumers…
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The Roku Channel is Adding Yahoo to Their Lineup of Live Programming
Today Roku and Oath announced that Yahoo content is coming to The Roku Channel. Thiw will bring a ton of live and on-demand content to Roku Players and Roku TVs. “‘Yahoo’ on The Roku Channel offers audiences another way to seamlessly access our exceptional content where and how they want it,” said Joanna Lambert, GM…
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Roku Adds Spotify Support
Good news for music fans! Spotify has returned to Roku Players and Roku TVs with an updated and improved Roku Channel. You can add the Spotify Music Roku Channel to your Roku HERE. In a statement on Roku’s Blog, Roku said “Spotify is back! Today, the world’s most popular music streaming service makes its highly…
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VRV Adds Classic Cartoons Thanks to a Partnership With Boomerang
Boomerang, the cable TV channel that airs classic cartoon shows, recently launched a video on-demand subscription service. With Boomerang you will be able to access a huge library of classic cartoons from places such as Turner and Warner Bros. and shows including “Looney Tunes” and some Hanna-Barbera along with the MGM library. Now they are brining their…
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Hulu Adds King Of The Hill to Their On-Demand Service
Today Hulu added maybe one of the most requested series ever since Netflix dropped the show several years ago. Now Hulu subscribers can enjoy all 259 episodes of the award-winning Kind of THe Hill show created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. King of The Hill debuted on the Fox as a mid-season replacement in 1997 and…
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Roku Is Mandating Single Sign-On Support On More Roku Channels
Yesterday Roku announced several new requirements for Roku channel creators. These new requirements include mandatory support for Universal Single Sign-On for network TV apps and requiring apps to let you sign-up, sign-in, upgrade, and downgrade inside the Roku Channel without being sent to a website. Details on Roku’s New Universal Single Sign-On Rule All authenticated…
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T-Mobile TV’s Mobile Cord Cutting Service Is Delayed Until 2019
Earlier this week during the T-Mobile earning call we learned that the mobile cord cutting version of T-Mobile TV is delayed until 2019. T-Mobile still plans to launch a TV service in 2018, but it will be limited to a fixed location like a house. The “use it anywhere” streaming TV service won’t launch until…
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HBO Goes Dark On Sling TV As AT&T & Dish Publicly Fight
Today Sling TV customers woke up to find out that HBO is no longer available on Sling TV and Dish. This comes as Dish and HBO’s new owner AT&T failed to come to deal to offer HBO and Cinemax on Sling TV. “Past behavior shows that removing services from their customers is becoming all too common a…
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PlayStation Vue vs DIRECTV NOW vs YouTube TV vs Sling TV vs Philo vs FuboTV vs Watch TV vs Hulu – Updated November 2018
In October 2018 several changes happened with new channels joining services like Philo and PlayStation Vue. With 8 very popular live TV services it is harder than ever to pick the right one and new cord cutters can feel very overwhelmed with all the changes. The truth is there are no best services out there.…
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Hulu is Launching a New Live TV Add-ons
Today Hulu announced that they are launching a new live TV add-on for Entertainment channels. The new add-on will include DIY, Livetime Movies, FYI, the Cooking Channel, and CNBC World. This new add-on will cost $7.99 a month and the FYI and LIfetime Movies will be moving out of the core $39.99 Hulu with live TV plan.…
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