Author: Luke Bouma
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Here Are The 5 Best Cord Cutting Deals For September 20th 2019
Are you looking for some good cord cutting deals? Today we want to highlight the top 5 as of September 20th, 2019. These are all limited-time deals, so don’t wait because the deals can end at any time. #1 Amazon’s Fire TV Stick & Fire TV Stick 4K Are on Sale Starting at $24.99 Looking…
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Spectrum is Forcing You to Pay for TV if You Want Internet at Some Apartments
Do you live in an apartment complex that has a contract with Spectrum? You may soon be forced to pay for TV if you want Spectrum Internet. This week Spectrum started to reach out to customers who live in specific apartment complexes to notify them that they have reached a new bulk-rate deal with the…
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Our Rebuttal to The Anti-Cord Cutting Claims Coming From Cable TV Fans
This week we finally learned more about NBC’s plans to launch a new streaming service in the Spring of 2020. This, as you would expect, has resulted in a new wave of anti-cord cutting attacks once again pushing the idea that you can’t save money with cord cutting (even though we don’t even know the…
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Cord Cutting Today #151 – New Roku Ultra & Roku Express, The New Roku OS 9.2, Cable Internet Monopolies, & More
Cord Cutting Today is our daily look at some of the biggest stories happening right now in the world of cord cutting. You can find these videos posted on YouTube every Monday through Saturday. Today we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting. Including Amazon Testing Automatic…
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Nexstar Has Closed its Deal to Buy Tribune Owned ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Locals
Your local TV station may soon have a new owner. Today Nextstar Media Group has closed on its purchase of Tribune Media Company for $6.4 billion. This deal will add more than 40 stations including KTLA in Los Angeles, WPIX in New York and WGN-TV in Chicago to Nexstar’s list of locals. (Note WGN-TV has…
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21% of Americans Intend to Sign Up For Disney+ Almost Double Than HBO Max
This week HarrisX released a new survey that looked at Disney+. According to this survey, 21% of American households intend to signup for Disney+. This is a huge jump over the 11% who said they plan to get HBO Max, and 10% who said they would get NBC’s new Peacock streaming service. Most American’s said…
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AT&T is Reportedly NOT Planning on Selling DIRECTV
Yesterday WSJ reported that AT&T planned to spinoff or sell DIRECTV’s satellite service. Now CNBC is reporting that AT&T is NOT looking to sell DIRECTV according to CNBC’s sources. This news comes as the investment group Elliott Management announced it now owns $3.2 billion of AT&T stock and that it’s pushing for AT&T to sell…
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PlayStation Vue May Soon Lose HBO & Cinemax
Today Sony warned PlayStation Vue subscribers that they soon may lose Cinemax and HBO. This news comes as Dish recently dropped HBO from both DISH and Sling TV packages. AT&T reportedly demanded a price hike and asked Dish to guarantee a minimum number of HBO subscribers. Dish pushed back saying they didn’t want to force…
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Spectrum, Altice, & Cable One Have an Internet Monopoly in Over Half of Their Markets
Over the last few years, we have seen a growing number of services try to launch high-speed Internet options to compete with traditional cable and DSL Internet. The hope has been to offer true competition for home Internet. Now according to a report from Grounded Reason, we get an idea of why more competition is…
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Pluto TV Adds This Old House & Roblox to Its Growing Library of Channels
Yesterday Pluto TV added 9 new channels. We already announced 7 of them as Pluto TV added VH1 Unscripted, VH1 Hip Hop Family, BET Her, BET Homecoming, VH1 Love & Hip Hop, VH1 Black Ink Crew, and VH1 RuPaul’s Drag Race. The two additional channels are This Old House and Roblox. Here is how Pluto…