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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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PlayStation Vue Just Added 3 New Channels
Today PlayStation Vue quietly added 3 new channels including Stadium, The Tennis Channel, and Comet. Sony has yet to officially comment on the channels going live and the PlayStation Vue blog has not been updated in months but all 3 channels are now live. We are not sure what packages these channels are in as…
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Review: Fire TV Stick 4K vs Fire TV 3rd Gen (Speed Test & Unboxing)
Today I got my hands on the Fire TV Stick 4K. This is the newest Fire TV from Amazon and replaced the 3rd Gen Fire TV in the lineup. Here is our full review: A few quick thoughts: The biggest improvement here is the remote. Not only did Amazon add the ability to control your TVs…
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NBC Starts Streaming COZI TV & TeleXitos For Free Online With LocalBTV
Today it was announced that NBC has agreed to add COZI TV and TeleXitos to the free streaming service LocalBTV. Currently being tested in San Francisco with BayAreaBTV, Southern California with SoCalBTV, and Phoenix with PhoenixBTV Didja, The parent company behind LocalBTV, says they plan to rollout “nationwide with 50-90 channels in each market.” “We…
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Expired: The Fire TV Cube is Half Off (Today Only)
Looking for a great deal on the Fire TV Cube? Today only the Fire TV Cube is half off over at HSN. (So far I only found this deal at HSN on Amazon the Fire TV Cube still costs $119.99.) You can find this deal on the HSN website HERE. Here is our review of…
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T-Mobile Plans to Have 5G Internet Ready in Hundreds of Cities in Early 2019
T-Mobile for some time has said they plan to roll out 5G to 30 cities in 2018. These markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Las Vegas. T-Mobile did not give a full list of cities they will support. Now T-Mobile is saying they will have hundreds of cities ready for 5G in early…
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Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, YouTube TV, & Others Saw a 54% Increase in Viewing Hours
Last week we saw a record number of people cut the cord on companies like AT&T. Now the research group Conviva has released a study that shows live TV streaming services saw a 54% jump in year-over-year hours viewed. (This study looked at services like Sling TV, Hulu, fuboTV, Philo, and PlayStation Vue.) “Streaming TV…
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