Author: Luke Bouma
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Showtime Wants to Replace Cable TV with Bundles of Streaming Services
This week Reuters broke the news that Showtime is in active talks with Amazon, Apple, and Roku to offer bundles of streaming services. According to Reuters, this bundle deal could replace cable TV as a one-stop shop for programming. Reuters stopped short of saying what services would be bundled, but you could see how a…
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Discovery Plans Further Expand Into Streaming With New Streaming Services Coming in 2020
Today Discovery announced its 3rd quarter 2019 earnings. During the earnings call, Discovery executives announced that they plan to continue to move into streaming to build off their current success, not just inside the United States but around the world. Discovery didn’t make any announcements about their streaming plans but did say they will be…
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The DOJ is Investigating Comcast Over its Dispute With Starz
Back in August Cord Cutters News first reported that Comcast planned to move some channels including Starz to more expensive packages. Now this has happened as Comcast has removed Starz from some of its bundles. This is not the end of the story as Comcast and Starz still need to reach a new deal or…
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The Free Streaming Service STIRR Adds 6 New Free Channels for Cord Cutters
The free streaming service STIRR last night added six new channels to its lineup, bringing the count up to over 76 live channels in addition to offering 3,300 hours of on-demand video content. Sinclair, the parent company of STIRR, has stated that they will continue to add more content to STIRR as they grow the service.…
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AT&T TV NOW & DIRECTV Re-Adds 7 Local TV Stations After a 5 Month Blackout
Yesterday AT&T TV NOW and DIRECTV re-added locals owned by Deerfield Media after a 5-month prolonged blackout. This means locals in Pensacola, FL; Baltimore, MD; Reno, NV; Rochester, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Port Authur/Beaumont, TX; and Kerrville/San Antonio, TX are back on AT&T TV services. “After more than five months of negotiations, DirecTV and Deerfield Media,…
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Sling TV Added 214,000 New Subscribers in The 3rd Quarter of 2019 As DISH Added 148,000 TV Subscribers
After AT&T TV NOW reported it had lost over 195,000 subscribers many wondered if Sling TV would also lose subscribers. Today we learned that Sling TV gained about 214,000 subscribers in the 3rd quarter of 2019 and now has over 2.69 million subscribers. This is up from the 2.47 million subscribers Sling TV had in…
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AT&T TV NOW Adds NBA TV to More Grandfathered Packages
Today AT&T TV NOW added NBA TV to grandfathered packages including the grandfathered Just Right package. Now more AT&T TV NOW grandfathered plans can enjoy live NBA TV including games as apart of their AT&T TV NOW package. In the past NBA TV was on the Xtra or higher plans now it looks like AT&T…
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The Free Streaming Service Xumo TV Adds The Combat War Channel to Its Lineup
Today Xumo TV announced that they have added a new channel called Combat War Channel. This new channel offers an in-depth look into military history. Here is how Xumo describes the new Combat War Channel that will be added on November 8th. Combat War Channel, featuring 140 movies and 184 long-form episodes covering WWII, WWI, American…
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Roku Says Ad-Supported Viewing is Growing Faster Than Subscription Viewing
Today during Roku’s 3rd quarter 2019 earnings call Roku announced that ad-supported viewing is growing faster than subscription viewing on services like Netflix. According to Roku their video ad impressions have more than doubled. Roku saw revenue from ads and subscriptions jump 112.2 million up 59% over the same period 2018. This is compared to…
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Cable TV is Losing 4% of Its Subscribers Year-Over-Year According to FOX’s CEO
Today FOX’s CEO Lachlan Murdochdisclosed 4% of their subscribers year-over-year even with the growth of live TV streaming services. This comes as FOX reports their 3rd quarter 2019 earnings that dropped to $499 million. Fox's Lachlan Murdoch just stated that industry multichannel video subscribers now declining over 4% year-over-year, despite growth of vMVPDs $FOXA https://t.co/BefNnBJam5…