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YouTube TV Extends Their Guide Data
Ever wonder what your favorite channel will be showing tomorrow? With YouTube TV you can now look farther ahead inside the guide. Yesterday on the /r/YouTubeTV subreddit some readers noticed that YouTube TV has extended their guide data. When YouTube TV first launched you would only be able to look forward a few hours. Now…
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The AT&T Time Warner Trial Is Over—Now We Wait
The AT&T-Time Warner antitrust trial has come to a close. Now both sides need to wait as the judge works on his final ruling. The Department of Justice has 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…
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Why Is 5G Taking So Long? We Take a Look at Why Korea & China Are So Far Ahead of the US
5G internet is quickly rolling out in Korea and China but even with great excitement here in the States it is taking a lot of time. This week the Brooklyn 5G Summit took place and Tech Crunch had an interesting talk with some of the attendees. According to Tech Crunch one attendee said, “It takes…
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YouTube TV is Adding Some Nexstar Locals
Last night YouTube TV started to quietly add Nexstar owned locals to their live TV streaming service. As best we can tell right now YouTube TV is just adding Nexstar NBC locals. We have reports of Nexstar locals going live in Little Rock, Columbus, Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, and more. In total Nexstar owns over 30 NBC affiliates and…
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Tubi & Hulu Team Up to Bring Some of Hulu’s Content to Tubi for FREE
This week Hulu and Tubi (the free ad-supported streaming service) teamed up to bring some of Hulu’s content to Tubi’s streaming service. You will find a selection of long- and short-form content from Hulu’s library on Tubi for free. Cord Cutters News talked with Hulu and confirmed some details. There are some limitations to this…
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DIRECTV NOW’s DVR Beta Will Be Offline This Evening For System Upgrades
For the second time this week DIRECTV NOW is emailing beta testers to let them know about back-end upgrades that are happening tonight. These grades are likely focused on improving the back-end of DIRECTV NOW DVR in an effort to improve streaming and recording. Here is the email DIRECTV NOW sent out just minutes ago: Hello…
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Arrested Development Season 4 Remix is Now Streaming on Netflix
Earlier this week it was announced that be getting a remix of Arrested Development 4th season. Now just in time for the weekend, Netflix has released a remix of the 4th season of Arrested Development. “I’m really excited about the final result,” Hurwitz writes. “It’s funny in a whole new way and I believe it…
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A CBS & Viacom Merger Now Looks More Likely
CBS and Viacom have for months now been in talks to once again merge. The two companies use to be one but broke up into two companies in 2006, at the request of both boards. It is important to remember that both Viacom and CBS have the same controlling family: the Redstone family. Now it…
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Hulu is Ending Support For Older Roku Players
Yesterday Hulu started to email owners of older Roku players notifying them that Hulu is ending support for some Roku models. The Roku players Hulu is ending support on are mostly Roku’s sold in before 2014. So all current and most recent Roku players will still be supported. Here is the email sent out by…
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How to Watch the Kentucky Derby on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
On May 5th, 2018 the 2018 Kentucky Derby gets underway at 6:46 PM Eastern. The best news is you don’t need cable TV to watch the Kentucky Derby. Not only will NBC air the race for free over the air with an antenna but you can also even stream the events on devices like Roku,…
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Sinemia a MoviePass Competitor Launches at $4.99 a Month
MoviePass has quickly changed the way many Americans pay for movies. With a $9.95 a month plan that allows customers o see one movie every day and select movie theaters. Now a new competitor wants to take on MoviePass. Sinema just announced that they are launching a $4.99 a month subscription movie service. Now Sinemia is hoping…
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The FCC Approves Samsung’s New 5G Home Router
This week the FCC approved Samsung’s 5G home router in time for Verizon’s 5G launch later this year. Earlier this year Samsung and Verizon announced a collaboration to offer an end to end 5G solution—from the tower to indoor routers. This is a major step closer to the official Verizon 5G service launch. Earlier this…
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TCL 5 Series vs 6 Series Roku TVs – Is the 5 or 6 Series Roku TV Right For You? We Break Them Down
This week TCL officially released their new line of high end TCL Roku TVs called the 6 Series. Yet many are asking why they would buy the more expensive 6 Series when the TCL 5 Series Roku TVs look very similar. Both have similar specs including 4K HDR Dolby Vision. So what makes the 6…
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PlayStation Vue Extends Their Free Trial
PlayStation Vue has had a tough few months. Several channels have left the service, and this week Sinclair pulled all their locals because, according to Sinclair, “Sony was not willing to meet certain requirements for carrying our stations.” Now Sony has increased the length of PlayStation Vue’s free trial from 5 to 14 days (with…
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DIRECTV NOW is Rolling Out a New Beta App on iOS & Apple TV
Earlier this week DIRECTV NOW rolled out a backend update to their DIRECTV NOW beta. Today DIRECTV NOW has started to invite DIRECTV NOW beta testers on iOS and Apple TV to test out a new updated DIRECTV NOW app. Thanks to some readers we do know AT&T is testing a second DIRECTV NOW beta…
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