Author: Luke Bouma
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The CW Seed is Adding a Free Live Stream
The CW Seed service offers a collection of programming form The CW for free online with ads. Now according to Deadline, The CW Seed will start to offer a free 24/7 live stream this fall likely full of content from The CW Seed catalog. “We expect a halo effect from People and Entertainment Weekly content on PeopleTV because…
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Dish Wants to Offer “Disruptive” Wireless Phone Pricing & Offer Bundles With its Other Products
Today during Dish’s 2nd quarter 2019 earnings call Dish opened up a bit about its plans to offer wireless phone service. According to Dish, they plan to have “disruptive” pricing on its wireless phone service once it owns Boost Mobile. Dish also said they are looking into possible bundles for its new wireless phone service…
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Hulu With Live TV is Coming to Android TV
Today Hulu announced that they have updated their Android TV app to add live TV starting in August 2019. With this update, Android TV customers will finally be able to access Hulu with live TV> “Starting in early August, Hulu + Live TV and our updated UI will be available across a variety of Android…
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AT&T’s New Live TV Streaming Service AT&T TV Comes With 500 Hours of Cloud DVR, Live TV Streaming, & 55,000 On-Demand Titles & More
Today AT&T launched a new website for its AT&T TV live TV streaming service. This new service is separate for the AT&T TV NOW service. AT&T TV NOW is just DIRECTV NOW rebranded as AT&T TV NOW. AT&T TV is a brand new service that is coming sometime in the next few months. AT&T still…
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AT&T Rebrands DIRECTV NOW to AT&T TV NOW
Today AT&T officially changed the name of DIRECTV NOW to AT&T TV NOW. For now, nothing changes but soon your DIRECTV NOW app will become AT&T TV NOW over the next few weeks. Here is the full press announcement: Our DIRECTV NOW subscribers will simply need to re-accept the terms of service and their streaming…
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Roku Has Released a New Roku Player Every Year for the Last 10 Years, Will 2019 Be Different?
Since 2008, Roku has released a new streaming player every year without fail. From the very first Roku released in May 2008 to the most recent Roku Ultra released in 2018, a new Roku has come out every year. Now this year many are wondering if Roku will keep this trend going with a new…
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Our Rebuttal to Consumer Reports’ Anti-Cord Cutting Story
This week, Consumer Reports published a story on their website and in the September 2019 Consumer Reports magazine called “The Cord-Cutting Decision Is Tougher These Days. Here’s What You Need to Know” by James K. Willcox. This story used many of the same attacks that the March 2019 cord cutting story used, but they made…
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Cord Cutting Today #106 – Disney+ Coming to Hulu, HOA’s Try to Illegally Block Antennas, Sling TV, & 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 Disney+Coming to Hulu,…
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Dish & Sling TV Are Considering Permanently Dropping Fox RSNs But Hopes to Offer a Price Break
Today during the 2nd quarter 2019 Dish earnings calls Dish announced that they are considering dropping Fox RSNs permanently. Dish said they offered a 30-day extension to their contract implying that Fox RSNs rejected that offer. Dish pressed the idea of how costly Fox RSNs are and how few viewers really watch the Fox RSNs.…
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Sling TV Added 48,000 New Subscribers in The 2nd Quarter of 2019
After DIRECTV NOW reported it had lost over 168,000 subscribers many wondered if Sling TV would also lose subscribers. Today we learned that Sling TV gained 48,000 subscribers and now has over 2.47 million subscribers. This is up from the 2.424 million subscribers Sling TV had in the 1st quarter of 2019. This means Sling…