Author: Luke Bouma
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EXPIRED: Here Are The 5 Best Deals in Cord Cutting Right Now (Updated: February 2019)
Are you looking for some good cord cutting deals? We want to highlight the top 5. These are all limited-time deals, so don’t wait because the deals can end at any time. #1 The Roku Ultra For Just $79.99 Did you miss out on Roku’s Black Friday sale? Well, right now the Roku Ultra costs just $79.99…
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PlayStation Vue is Adding More Nexstar Owned Local Channels
Back in November 2017, Nexstar announced that their ABC, CBS, and NBC owned affiliates would be coming to PlayStation Vue. Now it looks like PlayStation Vue is once again adding more Nexstar owned CBS affiliates by adding WNCN in North Carolina and KOIN in Portland to name a few of the channels added this week. This…
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Amazon Will Reportedly Have 55.7 Million Fire TV Users in 2019
Today Amazon reported their 4th quarter 2018 numbers and eMarketer used these numbers to project out what Amazon will do in 2019. According to Amazon net sales increased 20% to $72.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $60.5 billion in fourth quarter 2017. Operating income increased to $3.8 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $2.1 billion in fourth quarter 2017.…
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AMC Premiere Subscribers Will Get ‘The Walking Dead’ a Week Early
Today AMC announced that if you subscribe to their AMC Premiere service, you will get access to The Walking Dead a week early. The service costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year and gives you access to select AMC programming commercial free. Now it seems they are looking to expand their service into new…
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EXPIRED: The Amazon Fire TV 4K Stick, Fire TV Cube, & Fire TV Recast DVR Are All On Sale
Did you miss out on Amazon’s Christmas sales? Right now Amazon now has it’s line of Fire TV products once again on sale. Right now you can get the Fire TV Recast DVR 500GB version for $189.99 or the 1 TB version for $229.99. You can also get the Fire TV Stick 4K for just $39.99.…
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You Can Now Stream Locals For FREE in Washington DC. & Baltimore Thanks to Locast
Locast a new live TV streaming service that launched back in January in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Now Locast is expanding into a 7th market with the addition of Washington DC. and Baltimore today. Don’t look for Locast to stop there according to the people behind the…
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What Does DIRECTV NOW’s Downturn Mean for the Future of Cord Cutting? We Take a Look…
Yesterday DIRECTV NOW announced that it had lost 267,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2018. This instantly started a flood of finger pointing that cord cutting is coming to an end. Yet at the same time, DIRECTV and U-Verse TV lost 750,000 subscribers in 2018, cord cutting is still quickly growing. So why did…
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Hulu is Testing Ads When You Pause Your TV
Back in December, it was reported that Hulu was working on ads that would show when you pause your video. Today Hulu started to roll out these ads in partnership with Coke. Now when you pause your video a still ad appears, that takes up a little less than 1/4 of your screen. For now,…
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UltraViolet is Shutting Down
Today UltraViolet announced that they will be shutting down on July 31st, 2019. This comes as Disney’s Movies Anywhere service has slowly replaced UltraViolet as a single repository for all of your content. UltraViolet would allow you to create a library of all your movies in a single place. From there you could link it to…
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Spectrum Lost 36,000 TV Customers & 83,000 Voice Customers in The 4th Quarter of 2018
Today Spectrum announced their 4th quarter 2018 subscriber numbers. According to Spectrum residential video customers decreased by 36,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 when video customers increased by 2,000. During the same time, residential voice customers declined by 83,000, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 when voice customers grew by…