Author: Luke Bouma
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AT&T is Adding a New $5 Fee On Prepaid Customers
Are you an AT&T prepaid customer? You will soon have a new fee on your service depending on how you pay. Yesterday AT&T started to notify customers of a new $5 fee if you pay AT&T over the phone. This new $5 fee will start on February 14, 2024, and will only impact customers paying…
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Spectrum is Slowly Pushing Cable TV Customers Over to Its New Streaming TV Service With Higher Device Fees
Spectrum is slowly pushing customers from its older cable TV service to its newer streaming service with the Xumo Box. Now Spectrum is trying to speed up the process of moving customers from its legacy cable TV service to its new streaming service by raising the monthly price of cable TV boxes but keeping the…
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The Google Play Movies & TV App Will Shut Down Next Week on Google TV — Here’s What Will Happen to the Movies & TV Shows You Purchased
Google will once again shut down a major service as the remaining parts of its Google Play Movies & TV app for Android TV, select cable boxes, and the Google Play website will shut down on January 17, 2024. As part of its plan to create a more integrated user experience, Google already shut down…
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Roku Ads Out Perform The Top 5 Cable TV Networks During Primetime
Today, Roku announced its Primetime Reach Guarantee outperformed the top fice cable TV networks during primetime in a test with Experian. This test put Experian ads on The Roku Channel and 100 other top channels during Primetime outperforming the top five cable TV networks reach. “Roku’s Primetime Reach Guarantee massively propelled Experian’s TV household scale.…
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Amazon’s New Fire Max 11 Tablet is On Sale For Just $179.99
Do you need a tablet to stream your favorite movie or TV show? Amazon’s most powerful and largest tablet, the new Fire Max 11, is on sale right now for $179.99, that’s $70 off the list price of $229.99. This new Fire Max 11 tablet has 14 hours of battery life, 125GB of storage, and…
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Amazon Is Laying off Hundreds of Prime Video & MGM Studios Employees
Today Amazon reportedly contacted staff at Prime Video and Amazon’s MGM Studios to announce a new round of layoffs. This is the newest round of layoffs at Prime Video, with the last round being in late 2022. According to Amazon’s video chief, Mike Hopkins, Amazon has “identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain…
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MLB’s Court Hearing With Bally Sports is Delayed As 3 More MLB Teams Maybe Dropped
Last month, during a court hearing, MLB lawyers said that a framework had been reached for a deal to have Bally Sports air the 2024 MLB season. The catch is three of the remaining MLB teams may be dropped by Bally Sports or have their contracts changed. Today was to be the court date to…
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Dish Gets $50 Million From The Biden Administration to Bring Competition to Wireless
Today, it was announced that DISH has received $50 million from the Biden administration to help it build out its wireless network. The goal of the Biden administration’s investment of $50 million with this grant into DISH is to help bring competition to the wireless market. This is part of a bigger push to limit…
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YouTube TV Updates Its Channel Guide
This week, YouTube TV made a small but important change to its user guide. This comes as YouTube TV has slowly been making improvements to YouTube TV’s app with new features over the last year. This change now brings you back to the last channel you watched on the channel guide instead of always bringing…
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DISH & Sling TV Are Laying Off 150 Employees Just After Laying Off 500 Staff
DISH Network is once again cutting jobs as the company moves to reduce operational costs and expenses throughout the business. Echo Star the new parent company of DISH and Sling TV has announced it will lay off 150 more staff. This comes as DISh has been restructuring the company since 2020. In total DISH has…