Author: Luke Bouma
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Univision Pulls Their Channels From Sling TV & Dish After Asking For a 75% Price Increase
Today Univision pulled their channels from Sling TV and Dish after asking for a 75% price hike. This comes as according to Dish “ratings for its flagship Univision channel have declined nearly 40 percent since 2012.” Dish went on to say “despite the direct-to-consumer Univision Now app costing $7.99 per month, Univision is asking DISH…
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CBS All Access is Once Again Offering 1 Month FREE Trial (This Weekend Only)
CBS All-Access now offers over 8,500 episodes on demand of award-winning CBS content. New episodes are added the next day and in a growing list of areas, you also get a live stream of your local CBS affiliate. Currently, CBS All-Access is available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, Roku, Fire TV, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Apple…
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Kodi Is Adding DRM to Attract New Streaming Services
For years the team behind Kodi has pushed to attract streaming services to their platform; however, they have always hit roadblocks because publishers first wanted to know that their content would be secure. What is DRM? DRM is Digital Rights Management, the software that prevents people from making illegal copies. According to an interview with…
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Why You Should Never Trust Chat & Phone Support
Have you ever had a chat or phone agent tell you something that later turned out to be 100% wrong? Well, there seems to be a reason for that, and it reconfirms the fact that you should never trust chat or phone support. The main issue with chat and phone support comes when people ask…
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What Is the Most Popular Live TV Streaming Service? DIRECTV NOW? Sling TV? PlayStation Vue? Hulu? We Answer Your Questions
Ever since Sling TV and PlayStation Vue went head to head, the question has been what is the most popular streaming service? Now that question has grown in importance as the number of live TV streaming services has increased. Last week, Cord Cutters News asked over 2,000 of our readers what live TV streaming services…
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Dish Says Univision is Demanding a 75% Fee Increase Across Sling TV and DISH (A Blackout is Possible)
Today Sling TV and their parent company Dish announced that talks with Univision have broken down. According to Dish Univision has walked away from the talks after Dish pushed back on a 75% price hike Univision wanted. “Univision is demanding DISH pay roughly 75 percent more for channels whose ratings have declined among DISH viewers…
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YouTube TV is Back Online
Update: YouTube TV is coming back online for many of our readers. If your app is not working restart your device. This afternoon YouTube TV went down and it’s been down for over an hour. Some users get a login screen and are unable to log in. Other users just see the YouTube TV logo…
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NewsON Recently Added 36 Tegna Affiliates
Yesterday NewsON, the live and on-demand news streaming service, announced that they have added 36 new TEGNA-owned affiliates. Here are a handful of the affiliates that NewsON recently added: KUSA– Denver, CO WTSP– Tampa, FL WVEC – Norfolk, VA WGRZ– Buffalo, NY WBIR– Knoxville, TN KHOU– Houston, TX WXIA– Atlanta, GA KARE– Minneapolis, MN WKYC– Cleveland,…
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The Weather Channel’s Local Now Relaunches With a New Look
This week, The Weather Channel announced an all-new refresh to the Local Now service. Local Now has a fresh look and a full-time host, Sasha Rionda. “We are super excited to introduce Sasha as the new face of Local Now. Her personality and relatable story-telling style will shine across our hyper-local markets as she delivers…
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FOX & Disney Set a Date For Shareholders Vote on The Merger
Yesterday FOX & Disney announced a date for FOX shareholders to vote on a deal to merge with Disney. The vote will happen on July 27th, 2018 and is one of the final hurdles for Disney to clear before a merger can happen. “We are extremely proud of the businesses we have built at 21st Century…