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A New Redbox Lawsuit Claims Ex-CEO Treated Company ‘As His Personal Piggybank’
A new lawsuit has been filed against Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the parent company of Redbox and other brands, accusing its former CEO, Bill Rouhana, and other executives of gross mismanagement. The lawsuit was filed by George L. Miller, the trustee for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s bankruptcy case from 2024, as…
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Verizon is Giving Customers a 3-Year Price Lock Guarantee for Mobile and Home Internet
Verizon is now offering a 3-year, price lock guarantee on mobile and home plans, plus a new phone for both new and existing customers. The company is describing the price lock as a peace of mind plan, offering stability for customers. The 3-year price lock is for both new and existing customers and will be…
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Landman Season 2 Has Started Filming
Paramount+ announced today that the second season of Landman has started filming in Texas. Landman is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the notable 11-part podcast “Boomtown” from Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly, the series is an upstairs/downstairs…
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MLB Network Strike Zone, Ovation, C-SPAN/C-SPAN 2 are Now Streaming on DIRECTV STREAM’s Cheaper Genre Packs
DIRECTV STREAM is back with more additions to its more affordable genre packs. This time, the MySports Extra, MyNews, and MyEntertainment packs are all getting new channels. Here are the new channels added today: MLB Network Strike Zone on MySports Extra It’s the first Wednesday of the new MLB season, so DIRECTV has just added…
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FOX Renews The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers & Will Bring Back American Dad
Fox announced today that it will be renewing its animated shows The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers, and will be bringing American Dad! back to the network. The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers have all been renewed for four more seasons, keeping them in the FOX lineup through the 2028-29 TV season. American Dad! originally aired from 2005 to…
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Freecast Launches NextGen Streaming TV App
Ahead of the upcoming National Association of Broadcasting show, Freecast announced today the launch of NextGen Streaming TV by FreeCast. The streaming app will take advantage of the expansion of ATSC 3.0 broadcast technology and 5G wireless. Freecast’s software aggregates FAST channels and free ad-supported on demand content from across the internet and puts it…
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Amazon Makes a Bid to Buy TikTok
Amazon has made a last-minute offer to buy TikTok, according to a report from The New York Times. With an April 5 deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer for the app before a U.S. ban is put in place, the President is reportedly looking at multiple offers. “We have a lot of potential buyers,” Trump…
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Meta’s Head of AI Research is Leaving the Company
Meta’s VP of AI research, Joelle Pineau, announced in a Facebook post Tuesday that she’ll be leaving the company at the end of May, after nearly eight years. Pineau has been leading the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group since 2023. The group is focused on achieving “advanced machine intelligence (AMI) to accelerate the potential of…
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Netflix and Prime Video Will Stream NFL Christmas Day Games
After a successful streaming doubleheader on Netflix last Christmas, the NFL is planning to go even bigger this year with a tripleheader. Last year, two Christmas Day games streamed on Netflix and, thankfully, the platform had worked out its live streaming issues before game day. Previous live streamed events had technical issues and delays, but…
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T-Mobile is Expanding Fiber Home Internet Business with the Acquisition of Lumos
T-Mobile announced today that it has acquired Lumos, a “fiber-to-the-home provider” from EQT investment group. Lumos currently has a 7,500 mile fiber network that provides service to 475,000 homes in the Mid-Atlantic region. With the acquisition, current Lumos customers will become T-Mobile Fiber customers. T-Mobile says it invested $950 million and plans to invest an…