Author: Luke Bouma
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Plex Adds 8 New Free Channels
Free live TV streaming service Plex reached a deal to expand its content lineup with the addition of eight live channels for the last week in September 2023. Plex now offers more than 50,000 on-demand titles and hundreds of live channels and has slowly grown into one of the largest free ad-supported streaming services on…
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Bally Sports Shuts Down Its Arizona Channel
Last week, Bally Sports Parent Company asked the judge overseeing its bankruptcy for permission not to pay the Arizona Coyotes contract. This will allow Bally Sports to end its TV contract with the company. This comes as Diamond Sports Group, the parent company of Bally Sports, says it would like to shut down the Bally…
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MLB Says It Expects Bally Sports To Cancel One Team’s TV Contract Soon
This week, the MLB asked the court overseeing Bally Sports’ bankruptcy to push the regional sports network to offer a new TV contract for its teams. In that filing, we learned that the league is expecting Bally Sports to drop at least one team after the end of the 2023 season. This comes as Bally…
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Best Buy Confirms It Will Stop Selling DVDs & Blu-rays, Leaving Walmart and Amazon as Some of the Last Options For Physical Media
Last night, news broke that Best Buy would stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in the first quarter of 2024, according to The Digital Bits. Now Best Buy has confirmed that it will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in 2024. “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today…
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FTC Continues To Fight Spam Calls as it Wins a Court Case Against a Company That Made 40 Million Illegal Sales Calls
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it won a court case against a telemarketing company that bombarded job seekers with millions of illegal, unsolicited calls. The FTC said Day Pacer, LLC and Edutrek LLC purchased consumers’ contact information from websites claiming to help people find jobs, and use the data to make 40 million…
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Fubo Is Rolling Out An Updated Roku App With New Features, Faster Speed, & Bug Fixes
Over the last few weeks, Fubo has started to roll out an updated user interface for its live TV streaming service. Now it is Roku’s turn as the new app that includes a lot of nice features along with some bug fixes. If you are on an Android TV or Google TV device, you should…
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Deal Alert! Anker’s 100W USB-C Charger is On Sale For Just $42.99 Its Lowest Price Ever
Did you miss out on Anker’s huge Fall Prime Day event? Good news! Right now, Anker has once again dropped the price of its USB-C, and USB 100W wall charger to just $42.99, down from $74.99. This is the lowest price Anker has ever had this charger at. This great charger is perfect for phones,…
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YouTube TV is The Only Live TV Service Adding Subscribers Thanks to NFL Sunday Ticket
This is the first year YouTube and YouTube TV have offered the NFL Sunday Ticket. Before that, DIRECTV was the exclusive home for the NFL Sunday Ticket service that let customers watch every Sunday afternoon game even if it was not shown in their area. Now Bloomberg is reporting that YouTube TV has hit 1.3…
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ABC Still For Sale? Nexstar and Allen Media Group Hope Disney Will Agree to Sell It
Byron Allen, who last month made a $10 billion bid to buy FX, National Geographic, ABC Network, and the Disney-owned affiliates, reiterated earlier this week that he’s ready and willing to make a deal with the media giant. “I think ABC’s a real possibility. They say they’re not ready,” Allen said at the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery’s…
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Comcast & Disney Fail to Agree on A Price For Hulu But Ask Morgan Stanly & JPMorgan Chase To Help End The Fight
Disney and Comcast have spent the last few months going back and forth over the valuation of Hulu. Now it seems the two sides failed to reach a price that both will be happy with. This has resulted in them turning to two outside companies to help decide the price. In an SEC filing from…