Author: Luke Bouma
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Set TV is Being Sued By Netflix, Amazon, & Other Major Studios
This week a long list of studios including Netflix and Amazon sued a Set TV. The lawsuit claims Set TV committed “mass infringement” of the content owned by the studios. The suit was filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Central California, and the list of plaintiffs includes Amazon, Netflix, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures,…
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HBO & Cinemax Are FREE on Sling TV Starting Today Through The Weekend
Been thinking about giving HBO a try? Today may be your lucky day because all Sling TV subscribers have free access to HBO and all of the HBO On-Demand content! This deal is running through Monday, April 22nd, 2018. This free trial comes just in time to see season two premiere of Westwood this Sunday on HBO.…
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This Website Will Help You Find Out if Your Local OTA Channel is Moving Soon
You may have heard that your local station is getting ready to move to a new channel number. For many Americans that is true and you will need to rescan or you will lose your local. A few years ago the FCC started the process of selling over the air TV spectrum. This sale meant…
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Amazon Tops 100 Million Prime Members
This week Amazon announced that for the first time they have over 100 million Prime members. This announcement came in the form of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s letter to shareholders. From the Jeff Bezos letter: Prime – 13 years post-launch, we have exceeded 100 million paid Prime members globally. In 2017 Amazon shipped more than five billion…
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AT&T is Rolling Out 5G Foundation to More Than 100 New Markets
2018 is quickly turning into the year of 5G. Now AT&T has announced that they are launching their 5G Evolution technology in parts of 117 markets. Now AT&T offers 5G Evolution technology in 141 markets around the United States. The promise of 5G home Internet is to bring fiber Internet speeds without the cost of running fiber to…
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Our Rebuttal to The Washington Post Story “You think you hate your cable bundle. You’re wrong.”
This week The Washington Post released an opinion piece called “You think you hate your cable bundle. You’re wrong.” As you would expect this story raised a lot of eyebrows in the world of cord cutting. Americans Don’t Love Bundles The short version of the story is that while many Americans hate bundles in reality…
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AT&T is Working On a $15 Sports Free Version of DIRECTV NOW That Would Be FREE to AT&T Wireless Customers
Wish you had a sports free version of DIRECTV NOW? Well, now it looks like AT&T is working on that. Today AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson testified today during the trial over their Time Warner merger. During that talk, he opened up about AT&T’s future plans for DIRECTV NOW. One of the major product news he…
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fuboTV Adds More FOX & NBC Affiliates – Now Offers 260 Live Locals
Today fuboTV announced that they have added 3 new FOX and NBC affiliates. After adding these locals fuboTV now has 260 live locals around the United States. These include stations owned & operated by or affiliated with CBS, FOX, NBC or The CW, plus access to FOX network programming in 40 additional local markets: Here is…
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HBO GO is Now FREE At Hundreds of Hotels
Traveling as a cord cutter can often remind you why you ditched cable in the first place. Whether it be the ads or the limited content selection, it is hard to give up your Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon as you travel. Update: Today we heard from Enseo and at this time the free HBO GO…
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Hulu Adds 10 New Local ABC, FOX, & NBC Affiliates Today – Hulu Now Has 558 Live Locals
Today Hulu announced that they have added 10 new local ABC, FOX, and NBC affiliates. This brings Hulu’s total number of live locals to 558. Here are the networks added today: 5 ABC affiliate stations Station DMA Rank Station Owner KVIA El Paso (Las Cruces) 93 News-Press & Gazette KHBS Ft. Smith-Fay-Sprngdl-Rgrs 101 Hearst KVEW…