Author: Luke Bouma
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You Can Now Stream NBC on Your Amazon Echo Show
This week NBC launched support for the Amazon Echo Show. Now you will be able to use your Echo Show with Alexa to watch your favorite NBC shows. According to the NBC description of their Echo Show support, you can “catch on hit shows like This is Us, Saturday Night Live, The Good Place, The Voice,…
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Please Welcome Becca, Cord Cutters News’ Second Full-Time Employee
Today we are very excited to announce that our small team is getting a little bit bigger. This week we added a new full-time employee to the Cord Cutters News team. Becca joins our team to do a lot of the back-end work that keeps a site like Cord Cutters News running and will help…
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Google’s New Chromecast Will Be Announced Today
Last week we got to see in person the new 2018 Google Chromecast. Now we should finally get an official announcement as Google is holding an 11 am Eastern press event today (October 9th 2018) to announce several new products. These new products should include a new Pixel phone, Pixel tablet, and among other things. Here…
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NBC’s New Streaming App Pays You to Watch TV
Want to earn something for all that TV you watch? NBCU’s WatchBack app will now let you earn gift cards for watching TV and giving your opinion. Sadly, though, the app is currently only available on iOS devices. Right now, you can earn points good at Amazon, Best Buy, Burger King, Domino’s, eBay, Fandango, Krispy…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of October 8th 2018
Netflix Available October 8 Disney’s Sofia the First: Season 4 Mo Amer: The Vagabond– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Available October 9 Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 4– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Available October 10 22 July– NETFLIX FILM Pacto de Sangue– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Available October 11 Salt Fat Acid Heat– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Schitt’s Creek: Season 4 Available October…
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Netflix is Buying a Film Production Studio
Today Netflix announced that they plan to open a production studio in New Mexico by acquiring Albuquerque’s ABQ Studios. According to the deal, Netflix is planning to spend $1 billion on productions in New Mexico over the next ten years and create as many as 1,000 production jobs per year. “Netflix is at the cutting…
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fuboTV Adds New DVR Search Options
Today fuboTV announced that they have updated their “My Video” section on their website. Now when you look for your DVR recordings you will have an updated search option to sort the recordings by Sports, Shows, and Movies. This will allow you to more easily find the content you want when you want. Recently fuboTV has…
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Update: DIRECTV NOW is Now Back Online
For about the last hour DIRECTV NOW has been down hard. We have been flooded with emails and calls about the outage. For now, all DIRECTV NOW is saying is that they know the service is down and that they are working on a fix. Update: We are hearing reports that DIRECTV NOW is coming…
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Your Public Library is Now More Cord Cutting Friendly Thanks to Kanopy
Today even more public libraries started to stream on your favorite streaming service thanks to Kanopy. Starting today if your library is partnered with Kanopy you can now stream thousands of movies and TV shows for free on your Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. “Amazon Fire TV and Android TV have been…
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fuboTV Expands 4K HDR Support
Back in July fuboTV started to offer 4K HDR streaming in Beta on FOX and FS1. Now, fuboTV has added NBCSN to the lineup of channels that support 4K HDR. Now there is one important note. Not all content on Fox, FS1, and NBCSN is shot in 4K. Only select games are aired in 4K HDR on these…