Author: Luke Bouma
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Free HBO on DIRECTV NOW Is Ending Soon
Back in early March 2017, DIRECTV NOW announced that they were giving away free HBO to all DIRECTV NOW subscribers who had an active DIRECTV NOW account prior to March 6, 2017. AT&T said this was because they “want to thank you for being one of our most valuable customers and coming on this unprecedented…
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5 Free Trials I Think Every Cord Cutter Should Try
The best part of being a cord cutter is having a ton of services to pick from. What makes cord cutting even better is the ability to try most of them for FREE. Unlike with cable TV, cord cutting gives you the opportunity to test out a service before you have to pay for it.…
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Expired: Only a Few Hours Left: Echo Devices Are on Sale & Amazon Fire Tablets
Good news! Right now Amazon Fire Tablets and Echo devices are on sale! You get Echo devices are also starting at just $39.99 and Fire Tablets starting for just $39.99. You can even find Fire 7 Kids Edition for just $79.99. Echo Details: All-new Echo (2nd Gen) has a new speaker, new design, and is…
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How to Watch Breaking News Without Paying For Cable TV (Updated February 2018)
News and other live events are some of the main reasons people still subscribe to cable TV; however, you don’t have to pay for cable to watch the news. Cord cutters have a ton of great options—both free and paid—to watch all the news they want. Now, this is a very rapidly changing space but…
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fuboTV Adds 6 New NBC & CBS Affiliates
Today fuboTV Announced that they have added 7 new NBC and CBS affiliates across the United States. This brings the total number of local affiliates offered by fuboTV to 193. With the addition of these new markets fuboTV now has: FOX coverage in 75% of U.S. households, including 20 of the top 20 markets and 45 of the top…
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Netflix Strikes a Deal With Ryan Murphy
Well it looks like Fox and Disney just lost out to Netflix in an effort to hire Ryan Murphy. Today it was learned that Netflix had struck a deal with the Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning producer, director, and writer Ryan Murphy. “Ryan Murphy’s series have influenced the global cultural zeitgeist, reinvented genres and changed…
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Congress Wants to Create a National Broadband Access Standard
Recently a bipartisan bill called the Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Act of 2018 was introduced by Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.). This bill would determine whether mobile and broadband in rural areas is “reasonably comparable” to services in urban areas. T “While progress has been made, too many rural areas continue to…
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Report: Verizon May Be About to Shut Down Go90
Well, it looks like Verizon may be about to shut down their free streaming service Go90. This comes as Verizon VEO Tim Armstrong suggested that Go90 may be soon dismantled. “The brand will remain I don’t know how long,” Armstrong said Tuesday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. “Go90 was a super ambitious project, which…
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YouTube TV Officially Announces New Channels, New Markets, & a Higher Price
Yesterday we got an early look at YouTube TV’s plans to improve their service. Today they made it official. Starting today YouTube TV has added TNT, Adult Swim, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies. They will also be adding sports networks such as NBA TV, MLB Network, and you will be able to…
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ESPN+ Strikes a Deal with MLS For Exclusive Streaming Rights
Yesterday we learned Major League Soccer is shutting down their MLS live streaming service after striking a deal with ESPN+. Now Major League Soccer games will be streaming on ESPN’s new subscription streaming service ESPN+. ESPN+ is said to launch in spring 2018 after the start of MLS season on March 3, 2018. Until ESPN+…