Author: Luke Bouma
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Sling TV Adds a Free DVR
Today Sling TV added a free DVR to all customers. This DVR is limited to just 10 hours but is free for all Sling TV subscribers. You can still pay $5 a month for 50 hours of DVR storage if you want extra storage. You don’t have to do anything to get this DVR it…
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Pluto TV Now Has 247 Free Channels & Thousands of On-Demand Titles
Recently Pluto TV has been adding new channels bringing it’s total channel count to 247, all of them free. This is up from just over 200 Pluto TV channels back in September 2019. This comes as Viacom has recently been adding a growing amount of Viacom and non-Viacom content to Pluto TV. So what is…
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Cord Cutting Today #223 – Congress Bans Cable TV Fees, Apple Launching an Internet Service? & More
Today in CCT #223 we talk about: AT&T’s DIRECTV Could Lose Locals, Vidgo Launches, The Weather Channel, Netflix, IMDb, & More. Story #1 The 2019 Roku Ultra is On Sale for $69 (Arrives Before Christmas) https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-2019-roku-ultra-is-on-sale-for-69-arrives-before-christmas/ Story #2 Vidgo Launches a Live TV Streaming Service with 60 Channels at Just $39.99/Month for Cord Cutters https://cordcuttersnews.com/vidgo-launches-a-live-tv-streaming-service-with-60-channels-at-just-39-99-month-for-cord-cutters/…
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YouTube TV Wins The Bidding War For PlayStation Vue Subscribers as Sony Promotes The Service
Well, it looks like YouTube TV may have been the winner of the recent bidding war to get access to PlayStation Vue subscribers. Today Sony sent an email to PlayStation Vue subscribers encouraging them to switch to YouTube TV. Last week we learned that Sony had put uprights to get access to PlayStation Vue’s 500,000…
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PlayStation Vue Finally Posts a Warning About The Shutdown In Its App
Back in October Sony announced that PlayStation Vue is shutting down on January 30th, 2020. This news came after it was reported that Sony had tried to find someone to buy the service earlier this year. Now Sony has finally posted a warning inside the PlayStation Vue app notifying customers that it will shut down…
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Locast Launches a Legal Defense Fund Asking for $500,000 to Fight ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC
Locast is a free streaming service offering access to local channels in a handful of markets. Recently, they got hit with a lawsuit from the major broadcasters trying to shut down the service. The networks filed the suit against Locast last July, claiming that the service was violating their copyright by retransmitting signals of their local…
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ViacomCBS Buys 49% of MIRAMAX For $375 Million
Today ViacomCBS announced that they have purchased 49% of MIRAMAX. This gives ViacomCBS joint ownership of MIRAMAX’s catalog of 700 titles, 278 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars® including four Best Picture awards for Chicago, Shakespeare In Love, The English Patient, and No Country For Old Men. beIN will retain a 51% stake in MIRAMAX and MIRAMAX’s current leadership team…
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Apple is Reportedly Working on Building a Internet Service
Today Bloomberg reported that Apple has a team of engineers working on building an internet service. According to the report, a dozen engineers from aerospace, satellite, and antenna design industries are working on the project to beam data from space down to Apple devices. Apple reportedly plans to start offering the service within five years.…
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AT&T Warns That DIRECTV Could Lose Local Channels After STELA Expires
Right now, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) is set to expire in just over a week. STELA gives satellite services like DISH and AT&T access to local channels among other things. Now AT&T has come out and publicly warned that if this rule expires DIRECTV would lose access to local channels. The…
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The Weather Channel’s New Free Streaming Service Launches Today
Today The Weather Channel is launching a free streaming service called Local Now Plus. With Local Now Plus, cord cutters will be able to stream local news, weather and even free movies without a cable TV subscription. Local Now Plus launched today, December 19th, 2019. It includes more than 150 movie titles that all users…