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IMDb TV Renews Lebron James Produced Series ‘Top Class’ for Season 2
Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV announced today that it will renew original docuseries Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers for a second season. The series is executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter and follows a high school team from outside of LA. In season one, viewers watched…
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Locast Launches in Tri-Cities Bordering Tennessee, Kentucky & Virginia
Locast has launched in its 32nd market. The free streaming service is delivering over two dozen local channels to residents of the northeastern Tennessee cities of Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport, as well as the surrounding rural area bordering Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. Locast offers local broadcast TV via the internet for free, though the…
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What’s Coming to Plex in May 2021
Plex is updating its free content collection for May. New additions include Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson in 2004’s The Perfect Score and the 2011 thriller I Melt with You starring Rob Lowe, Thomas Jane, and Jeremy Piven. Stay up to date on everything streaming on Plex with their blog, The Gist. Here’s the full list…
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Weekend Wrap Up: Cable Numbers Drop, Roku Drops YouTube TV & More
With Q1 earnings calls underway, this week we’re seeing the impact that cord cutting is having on the cable industry. In yet another disagreement between a streaming service and streaming platform, Roku dropped YouTube TV from its Channel Store. We also finally got updates about HBO Max pricing and the Locast case. Here’s what happened…
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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Satellites
SpaceX launched the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites this week, bringing the total to over 1500 satellites launched and over 1400 still in orbit. This week’s launch took place on Wednesday at 11:44 pm ET from Cape Canaveral in Florida. SpaceX is now taking preorders for its internet service. Starlink is available in limited areas and…
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Hulu Adds Nine ViacomCBS Channels to Live Lineup
Hulu announced today that it is adding nine more ViacomCBS channels to the Hulu with Live channel lineup. The price of Hulu with Live TV will remain at $64.99/month. Hulu with Live will now include Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, VH1, CMT, MTV, TV Land, and Paramount Network. Along with the live channels, subscribers…
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Charter Lost 138,000 Video Customers in Q1 2021
In its Q1 2021 earnings report Friday morning, Charter reported a loss of 138,000 pay TV customers. That number includes 156,000 residential customers and 18,000 business customers. As of March 31, 2021, Charter had 15.5 million residential video customers. The company saw growth in its broadband business, though that growth has slowed down in 2021.…
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Disney+ Will Celebrate May the 4th with Star Wars Fan Art
To celebrate May the 4th, otherwise known as Star Wars Day, Disney+ is featuring fan art for Star Wars movies and series. The first fan art to be featured on Disney+ went up on the streaming service today. On the Disney+ landing page, you’ll find artwork showing the duality of good vs evil, featuring characters…
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YouTube TV Has Been Dropped from Roku
Following failed negotiations with Google to keep YouTube TV on Roku, Roku let YouTube TV customers know Friday morning that the app has been removed from the Roku Channel Store. The decision follows statements from both Roku and Google, in which Roku claims Google wanted to skew search results in its favor and change the…
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Sling TV Adds Baseball and Hockey DraftKings Channels
Sling TV is expanding its sports betting channel lineup today with the addition of baseball and hockey channels. Sling launched the DraftKings Basketball channel last week, allowing fans to check on game scores and betting odds in real time. Today, DraftKings Baseball and DraftKings Hockey are joining the basketball channel. The channel additions are a…