Author: Luke Bouma
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Roku Is Ending Support for Some Older Roku Players
For some time now Roku has stopped supporting Roku players built in 2011 and before. This week Roku announced that they are ending support for more Roku players including the 2013 Roku 2 line of players. Roku has finally decided to end support for older Roku players like the first gen Roku 2 and Roku…
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Cord Cutting Today #187 – Comcast Under DOJ Investigation? Sling TV Subscriber Growth, Black Friday Deals, & More
Today in CCT #187 we talk about: Comcast Under DOJ Investigation? Sling TV Subscriber Growth, Black Friday Deals, Cable TV fees, Discovery, Dish, & More. Story #1 Amazon Prime is 40% Off For All Veterans & Active Military (Limited Time Deal) https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-prime-is-40-off-for-all-veterans-active-military-limited-time-deal/ Story #2 Amazon Announces Black Friday Deals Including $19.99 Fire TV Stick https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-announces-black-friday-deals-including-19-99-fire-tv-stick/…
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AT&T & Disney Have Reached a Deal in Principle for Disney Programming On AT&T TV NOW & DIRECTV
Today during its earnings call Disney announced that AT&T and Disney have reached a deal in principle for Disney channels on AT&T TV NOW. Disney was quick to add that the deal is not final as they are still working on finalizing the details. This deal means AT&T will be able to keep Disney programming…
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Hulu Now Has 28.5 Million Subscribers
Today Disney announced Hulu now has 28.5 million subscribers up from 26.8 million on May 1st, 2019. This is a noticeable jump in growth for Hulu. Today, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger Announced that Hulu will become the new home for FX programming. Soon Hulu will add a huge catalog of older FX programming as the…
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ESPN+ has 3.5 Million Subscribers
On their Quarter 4 earnings call, Disney has just announced that ESPN+ has reached 3.5 million paid subscribers. This number is up from 2.4 million in the 3rd quarter of 2019. On the call, Bob Iger attributed the subscriber gain to exclusive content available on ESPN+, along with the ability of users to watch live…
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Disney+ is Coming to The Fire TV After Disney & Amazon Reach a New Deal Will Also Be Added to LG & Samsung TVs
Today during Disney’s earnings call it was announced that Disney+ will be coming to the Amazon Fire TV. At first, it was reported that Disney and Amazon had been fighting over advertising deals preventing Disney+ from being added to the Fire TV. Now Disney and Amazon have officially announced that Disney+ will be coming to…
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BET+ is Now Available on Roku Players & Roku TVs
Back in September BET+ launched in partnership with Tyler Perry. Now you can stream BET+ on Roku and access all the great BET+ content right on your Roku TV or Roku streaming player alongside all of your other favorite Roku Channels. You can start a free trial, after which it will cost $9.99 a month.…
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DISH Says Not Having FOX RSNs on Sling TV Has Helped Keep Pricing Down
Today during DISH’s 3rd quarter earings call, DISH opened up about its talks with Sinclair over the FOX Regional Sports Networks. According to DISH, they did lose subscribers, but not having these FOX RSNs has helped DISH keep prices down both on DISH and Sling TV. So far, this seems to have paid off as…
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Amazon Is Releasing a New 58″ 4K HDR Fire TV Edition Smart TV From Insignia For Just $199.99 on Black Friday
Today Best Buy announced their Black Friday deals that will include a brand new 58″ 4K HDR Fire TV Edition Smart TV from Insignia. This is a slightly larger version of the Insignia Fire TV Smart TVs that have already been listed for sale. This new TV costs $479.99 but will be on sale on…
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T-Mobile Will Offer Free Home Internet to 10 Million Households & $15 a Month Wireless Phone Plans
Back in March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home internet services launching December 6th. Now T-Mobile is promising to expand this home internet service…