Author: Luke Bouma
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DISH Will Now Set Up Your Roku Player or Hang Your TV in 20 New Markets Today
Recently Dish launched a new service called OnTech. With this new service Dish will send someone to your house to help you setup your smart home. DISH will now come to your house and set up your smart home devices including Roku Players. Want more help? DISH will also help set up your Linksys router,…
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The T-Mobile & Sprint Merger Receives a Recommendation of Approval From The FCC Chairman
A few weeks ago The Department of Justice approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint thanks to a deal to sell some assets to Dish including Boost Mobile for $5 billion. The T-Mobile and Sprint merger will be a $26 billion deal to bring the two companies together. Now the Chairman of the FCC has…
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Amazon is Launching a New Effort to Promote Cord Cutting
Amazon for years now has been promoting cord cutting. Now Amazon is stepping up these efforts with a new initiative to educate Americans about cord cutting. This new “Free Your TV” campaign is designed to educate about cord cutting while promoting Amazon’s products to make the transition from cable to streaming easier. Now on Amazon.com,…
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AT&T is Merging The DIRECTV & DIRECTV NOW Customer Service Into AT&T Help
Recently there has been a lot of talk about DIRECTV NOW rebranding into AT&T TV NOW. Now it looks like AT&T is starting to move away from the DIRECTV brand as well. Yesterday AT&T announced plans to shut down its separate support accounts for DIRECTV NOW and DIRECTV on Twitter and merge them into @ATTHelp.…
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CBS Programming Is Coming to Pluto TV
Today, Viacom and CBS announced a deal to merge into a single company. That new company will be called ViacomCBS and will include a long list of streaming services like CBS All Access, Pluto TV, CBS News, and more. Now Viacom and CBS are saying that once the merger is complete CBS content will be…
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Cord Cutting Today #119 – Scammers Are Targeting Fire TV & Fire Stick Owners, FCC’s Rural Internet, & 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 Scammers Are Targeting…
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DIRECTV NOW is Re-Adding Many CBS Locals Today
Last week AT&T announced a deal to bring CBS locals back to DIRECTV NOW. Sadly as part of this new deal with CBS AT&T must strike a deal with each CBS station’s owners before it can be added back to DIRECTV NOW and AT&T TV NOW. In the past, CBS negotiated on behalf of all…
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Giveaway! Enter to Win an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K & $50 Sling TV Gift Card
Today we are very excited to announce that Cord Cutters News has teamed up with Amazon to giveaway a Cord Cutting Kit that includes a Fire TV Stick 4K and $50 in Sling TV gift cards. (Note there are two $25 Sling TV gift cards in this Cord Cutting Kit.) You even get a Fire…
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AT&T TV NOW is Officially Starting its Roll Out to The Apple TV, Roku, & Fire TV
A few weeks ago AT&T announced that they are renaming DIRECTV NOW to AT&T TV NOW. Now According to report from Tech Crunch AT&T is going to officially start the rebranding DIRECTV NOW on the Apple TV, Roku, and Fire TV. AT&T has said they will update all DIRECTV NOW apps to AT&T TV/AT&T TV…
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CBS & Viacom Have Officially Agreed to Merger Into a Single Company
After years of rumors and official talks, CBS and Viacom have officially agreed to merge into a single company after breaking up back in 2006. The new company will be called ViacomCBS once all the paperwork is finished. It had been reported that CBS and Viacom would make the merger official on the 8th of…