• In The 2nd Quarter of 2019 Amazon Saw Sales Jump 20% to $63.4 Billion

    In The 2nd Quarter of 2019 Amazon Saw Sales Jump 20% to $63.4 Billion

    Today Amazon announced their 2nd quarter 2019 earnings with a 20% jump in sales to $63.4 billion. Net income increased to $2.6 billion up from $2.5 billion of net income in the 2nd quarter of 2019. (These numbers do not include Prime day 2019.) “Customers are responding to Prime’s move to one-day delivery — we’ve…

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  • ESPN 8 The “OCHO” is Coming to Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, DIRECTV NOW, Hulu, & More on August 7th

    ESPN 8 The “OCHO” is Coming to Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, DIRECTV NOW, Hulu, & More on August 7th

    For the 3rd year in a row, ESPN 2 will turn into ESPN 8 on August the 7th 2019. ESPN uses this yearly ESPN 8 to make a bit fun of itself and show sports that typically don’t appear on ESPN including dodgeball. ESPN 8 comes from the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and ESPN…

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  • Here is Everything Coming to Amazon’s Free IMDb TV in August 2019

    Here is Everything Coming to Amazon’s Free IMDb TV in August 2019

    New titles that will become available on IMDb TV on August 1, 2019: ‘71 (2014) AN EDUCATION (2009) BRAM STROKER’S DRACULA (1992) CRAFT, THE (1996) CRASH (2004) GRUDGE MATCH (2013) KARATE KID III, THE (1989) KARATE KID, THE (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThrb7UeBGM KARATE KID: PART II, THE (1986) MIDDLE, THE (2009-2018) PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE (2006) WAY…

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  • How to Watch The 2020 Democratic Debates on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and More On July 31st & August 1st 2019

    How to Watch The 2020 Democratic Debates on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and More On July 31st & August 1st 2019

    Looking to watch Democratic Debates on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and more? On July 31st, 2019 and the second debate on August 1st, 2019 starting at 8 PM Eastern you will find the Democratic Debates airing on CNN. The good news is as a cord cutter you have many options to stream the debate…

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  • Sinclair Wants to Use Its TV Stations to Build a 5G Internet Network

    Sinclair Wants to Use Its TV Stations to Build a 5G Internet Network

    Today Sinclair announced a plan to partner with One Media 3.0 (a subsidiary of Sinclair) and Saankhya Labs to build a network enabling 5G  internet and OTT video. Sinclair’s hope here is that wireless providers will take advantage of this 5G network and its ATSC 3.0 TV stations to move video from streaming over 4G…

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  • NBC’s New Streaming Service Will Launch in April 2020

    NBC’s New Streaming Service Will Launch in April 2020

    Likely in a move to not let AT&T’s HBO Max beat it to the market today NBCUniversal announced that its new streaming service would launch in April 2020. “For competitive reasons, we believe we’ve got some ideas that are innovative and don’t really want to share those until we get close to launch. But we’re…

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  • The Growth of Cord Cutting Has Made Network Blackouts More Likely

    The Growth of Cord Cutting Has Made Network Blackouts More Likely

    DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, and U-verse TV have lost Nexstar locals and all CBS locals (on DIRECTV NOW). DISH lost Meredith-owned locals and today both DISH and Sling TV lost FOX RSNs. In the last few months, AT&T has come close to blackouts with both Viacom and A+E Networks. Now it seems that cord cutting has…

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  • Amazon & Roku Control Almost 70% of The US Streaming Player Market

    Amazon & Roku Control Almost 70% of The US Streaming Player Market

    We have known for some time now that Roku and Amazon have dominated the United States streaming market. Now according to Parks Associates Roku and Amazon now control almost 70% of the market. This leaves the Apple TV, Android TV, and Chromecast to fight over the last 30%. “The adoption of Roku and Fire TV…

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  • A New Nvidia Shield Just Cleared The FCC Running Android TV

    A New Nvidia Shield Just Cleared The FCC Running Android TV

    For months we have heard rumors of a new Nvidia Shield running Android TV. Bback in June, we learned that Nvidia was working on a new Nvidia Shield code-named “mdarcy”. Today it was confirmed that the rumored “mdarcy” new Nvidia Shield is real as it cleared the FCC today. This comes with the FCC filing…

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  • YouTube TV Is Reportedly the Fastest Growing Live TV Service As PlayStation Vue Slows Down

    YouTube TV Is Reportedly the Fastest Growing Live TV Service As PlayStation Vue Slows Down

    This week UBS released its Evidence Lab Streaming TV Monitor report. One part of this report looked at the subscriber growth of live TV streaming services like YouTube TV, Sling TV, and PlayStation Vue. To do this, UBS looked at the number of app downloads each service got in the second quarter of 2019 to…

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  • Comcast Lost 224,000 TV Subscribers in 2nd Quarter 2019

    Comcast Lost 224,000 TV Subscribers in 2nd Quarter 2019

    Well, it looks like the bad news for cable TV keeps flooding in as once again a major provider is reporting a drop in pay-TV subscribers. This time the drop comes from Comcast who today reported losing 224,000 residential video subscribers in the 2nd quarter 2019 with its Xfinity TV service. This comes as AT&T…

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  • The Free Sports Service Stadium Has Shutdown Its Roku Channel as It Pushes Other Ways to Watch on Roku

    The Free Sports Service Stadium Has Shutdown Its Roku Channel as It Pushes Other Ways to Watch on Roku

    Stadium is a 24/7 free sports network that launched back in 2017. Roku was one of the first devices it supported but today Stadium removed its Roku Channel without warning. The good news is you can still watch Stadium but you will need to use services like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Stirr, or XUMO…

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  • Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix in August 2019

    Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix in August 2019

    Available August 1 Are We Done Yet? Boyka: Undisputed Four Weddings and a Funeral Groundhog Day Horns Jackie Brown Jupiter Ascending Now and Then Panic Room Rocky Rocky II Rocky III Rocky IV Rocky V Sex and the City: The Movie Something’s Gotta Give The Bank Job The House Bunny The Sinner: Julian To Wong…

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  • Cord Cutting Claims its First Victim As a Montana Cable Telecommunications Company Shuts Down

    Cord Cutting Claims its First Victim As a Montana Cable Telecommunications Company Shuts Down

    This week cord cutting claimed its first victim as the Montana Cable Telecommunications Association announced it is shutting down after 60 years. When talking about why it is shutting down the Montana Cable Telecommunications Association listed “cord cutters” and programming rate pressure as the reasons for disbanding. “We thank all those who have supported us…

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  • Sling TV Adds Over 300 Free Shows & Movies Even if You Are Not a Subscriber

    Sling TV Adds Over 300 Free Shows & Movies Even if You Are Not a Subscriber

    Today Sling TV announced a partnership with FilmRise to add over 300 movies and TV shows to its lineup. These shows will be free with ads and will be available through the Sling TV app on Roku even if you are not a subscriber.With this partnership you will find free TV shows like  3rd Rock from…

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