Author: Luke Bouma
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Walmart is Reportedly Considering Selling Vudu
Today The Information reported that Walmart is looking into selling Vudu. According to reports, Walmart has concluded that in order to hold up against new competition, it would have to invest substantially in Vudu. As an alternative, Walmart is now reportedly thinking about selling instead of pouring money into Vudu. Vudu first launched back in…
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Spectrum & ACE Team Up to Crack Down on Password Sharing & Unauthorized Access to Content
Recently Spectrum announced partnerships with FOX and Disney to crack down on password sharing. Today Spectrum teamed up with The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) to crack down on unauthorized access to content through password sharing and inadequate encryption. ACE was created to help crack down on piracy and has lead several major lawsuits…
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AT&T Announces New Unlimited Wireless Plans Starting at $35 a Month With Free HBO MAX
Today AT&T announced new unlimited wireless plans starting at $35 a month when you signup for 4 lines. These new AT&T Wireless plans will take effect this Sunday and are called AT&T Unlimited Starter and AT&T Unlimited Extra. Later on, an AT&T Unlimited Elite plan will also be released for $50 a month with 4…
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Hulu Hires Scott Donaton as The New Head of Creative
Today Hulu announced that they have a new Head of Creative with the hire of Scott Donaton. With this new role, Donaton will lead Hulu’s creative teams responsible for Hulu’s ad system. “Scott Donaton is a visionary whose experience bringing together creative and content practices, coupled with his background in media, makes him the ideal…
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SiriusXM is Coming to Google Assistant With Three Months of Free SiriusXM
If you subscribe to SiriusXM you now have a new way to listen to your radio stations. Today SiriusXM and Google announced a partnership that will bring SiriusXM to Google Assistant. This means you will now be able to use your voice with Google Assistant to access your favorite SiriusXM content. Google says that later…
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Locast Now Offers Free TV in Seattle With Access to ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, & More
Today Locast announced that they are expanding free TV into the Seattle-Tacoma area. Locast is a live TV streaming service that launched back in January 2018 in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Recently, Locast has been rolling out to new markets including South Dakota. With…
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Is Cord Cutting Doomed? Will More Cord Cutting Services Shutdown? We Take a Look
Yesterday after months of rumors, Sony officially announced that PlayStation Vue would be shutting down. This has raised many questions about the future of cord cutting and if other streaming services will shut down as well. So let’s take a look at the prospect of cord cutting in a post-PlayStation Vue world. Is Cord Cutting…
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T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet For $50 a Month With No Data Cap
Back in March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home internet services launch. Now T-Mobile has launched a website to promote its $50 a month…
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NBC News’s Free Streaming Service Will Expand to Offer 24/7 Live Streaming in 2020
Today NBC announced that they will be expanding their free NBC News Now service from 8 hours a day to 24 hours a day live news coverage starting in 2020. NBC said this shift to 24/7 live free news would happen in the first half of 2020. NBC News Now currently offers 8 hours of…
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Viacom & Facebook Agree To a New Streaming Partnership
Today Viacom and Facebook announced a new partnership that would see Viacom create original short-form programming for the social media platform’s Facebook Watch streaming service according to a report from Deadline. “The point I’d let you know that’s really exciting is that it’s a multi-territory, worldwide partnership with Facebook,” said Brendan Yam, the Senior VP and…