Author: Luke Bouma
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Roku Adds Live News to The Roku Channel
Last year Roku announced The Roku Channel, a free streaming service with access to on-demand content. Now they are expanding the service to add live news for free in May as part of the Roku 8.1 Update. “We built The Roku Channel so it’s easy to navigate, offers great content and brings real value to…
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DIRECTV NOW Changes Over to AT&T Logins & Adds More Local Affiliates
Yesterday just before the outage that took down DIRECTV NOW for about 3 hours a few big changes happened. New Logins First DIRECTV NOW switched from the login screen you know and love to the AT&T login screen. It looks like AT&T has finished their move over to AT&T Access IDs. According to the updated DIRECTV NOW…
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5 Cord Cutting Stories to Keep an Eye on For the Rest of 2018
2018 is already almost one-fourth over and there has already been a ton of cord cutting news. Now looking forward to the rest of 2018 there are even more stories to watch for. Here are my top 5 cord cutting stories to keep an eye on for the rest of 2018: New Live TV Streaming…
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DIRECTV NOW is Now Back Online After Nationwide Outage
Update: DIRECTV NOW is now back online. Tonight DIRECTV NOW is experiencing their first major outage in months. For about 3 hours now DIRECTV NOW has been down except for some beta testers who say their beta app is still up. DIRECTV NOW has not commented on the outage and their Twitter account has been dark…
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PlayStation Vue Adds The SNY Network
Today PlayStation Vue quietly added the SNY regional sports network to customers in the New York Metropolitan area. At this time we can not confirm if they are offering a national feed but the regional feed is live. They offer live coverage of New York Mets games, New York Gets programming, Fall Experimental Football League,…
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How to Watch the 2018 NFL Draft on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, & More
The NFL Draft is here again! The best part is you can stream the 2018 NFL draft on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, and more even if you don’t have a cable TV subscription. For the first time in a long time, the NFL Draft will also be available free over the air on…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of April 23rd 2018
Netflix April 24 Call the Midwife: Series 6: “Christmas Special 2017” Kevin James: Never Don’t Give Up April 25 Bill Nye: Science Guy Psychokinesis April 27 3%: Season 2 Bobby Kennedy for President Candy Jar Holy Goalie The Man Who Knew Infinity The New Legends of Monkey: Season Available April 24 Vikings: Complete Season 5 (History) Available April 25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQhWrAcQnE&t=1s The…
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CBS All Access Launches in Canada
For some time now CBS has said they plan to expand CBS all access outside of the United States. Now CBS has taken their first steps down this path by launching CBS All Access in Canada. “The launch of CBS All Access in Canada is a significant milestone for the service,” said Marc DeBevoise, president…
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Netflix & DreamWorks Animation Announce a Fast & Furious Animated Series
Today Netflix and DreamWorks Animation announce an expanded partnership to bring Fast & Furious to Netflix as an animated show. Following Comcast-NBCUniversal’s acquisition of DreamWorks animation studio, the relationship with Netflix has been expanded to include a first look at DreamWorks Animation animated series based on Universal film properties, like the multi-billion dollar Fast & Furious franchise. “We…
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DIRECTV NOW Saw 158% Growth in March 2018 & YouTube TV Topped 1 Million Active Users in March
Well, it looks like DIRECTV NOW & YouTube TV had a great 1st quarter 2018. This all comes from Apptopia a research group that has been monitoring app ecosystem and publishes that data. Today they released a report looking at the current state of live TV streaming service as of March 2018. According to the…