Author: Luke Bouma
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DISH Is Selling Some of Its Buildings For $26.75 Million To Its Majority Owner as Bankruptcy Fears Grow
Last week DISH made a move to sell its DISH Wireless Headquarters building to a company controlled by DISH’s majority owner Charlie Ergen. (Conx Corp. was created in 2022 by Ergen as a special purpose acquisition vehicle according to a report from 9News Denver.) This move will put $26.75 million into DISH and its wireless…
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The Roku Channel Adds 6 New Free Live Channels, Including National Lampoon & Yu-Gi-Oh
The Roku Channel has become one of the most well-known free streaming services, and today, it has quietly added eight new channels. This includes a channel dedicated to National Lampoon. The Roku Channel now has over 350 live TV channels and 80,000 free movies and TV shows. It does not stop there, as The Roku…
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Cord Cutting Today: Disney+ Adding ESPN, Important Fire TV Changes, & More
Today in Cord Cutting Today for May 21, 2024 we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting including: Is the Death of DVDs Going to Kill Redbox? You can find a link to each story we talk about below this video. Redbox’s Parent Company Saw Revenues Drop…
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There Are Now Over 5,200 Free Live Channels on Services Like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Tubi, & More
Free ad-supported streaming is one of the fastest growing areas in cord cutting in 2024. Now a new report from Gavin Bridge the FastMaster has added them all up and there are now 5,264 free ad-supported channels available across 18 streaming services worldwide. In the United States, there are just under 2,000 free ad-supported. “The…
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Redbox’s Parent Company Saw Revenues Drop 75% in the 1st Quarter of 2024 Year Over Year
Chicken Soup For The Soul is the parent company behind Redbox, Crackel, and the streaming service by the same name. Recently the company has been hit hard by the decline in ad revenue on its free streaming services and the drop in DVD rentals at its Redbox locations. This has led to the company seeing…
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T-Mobile Will Face a Class-Action Lawsuit Over Its $26 Billion Purchase of Sprint
In 2020, T-Mobile closed a deal to buy Sprint for $26 billion. Now an order from the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied T-Mobile’s request to stop a class-action lawsuit over the merger. The plaintiffs have argued that the merger is driving up the price of wireless services because it reduced market competition.…
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Anker’s Noise Auto Cancelling Wireless Earbuds With 98% Noise Cancelling & 50 Hours of Playtime Are Just $49.99
Need a new set of powerful noise-cancelling earphones? Anker’s Soundcore A40 wireless earbuds are on sale right now for 50% off. These earbuds offer active noise canceling that reduces noise by up to 98%. These earbuds also offer 50 hours of playtime, helping you have them when you need them. They also come in black,…
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Disney+ Will Add Some ESPN in December and All ESPN Channels in 2025
In May 2023, we learned that Disney was building a stand-alone ESPN streaming service. This would allow sports fans to subscribe to ESPN without cable TV or a live TV streaming service, giving cord cutters a way to watch ESPN networks for the first time without paying for other channels. Bob Iger, speaking at the…
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Cord Cutting Today: New YouTube TV Multiview Rollout, NFL is Driving Up the Cost of TV, & More
Today in Cord Cutting Today for May 20, 2024 we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting including: Comcast, Spectrum, & DISH Are on Track to Lose Over 5 Million TV Customers in 2024. You can find a link to each story we talk about below this…
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Paramount & Amazon Are Reportedly in Talks For a New Streaming Bundle
Are you ready for more bundles of streaming services? Recently Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a deal that would see Max, Hulu, and Disney+ bundle. After that Comcast announced a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+. Now Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon and Paramount are in talks about a possible streaming bundle. According…