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  • Tablo DVR’s New Premium Service Launches This Week

    Tablo DVR’s New Premium Service Launches This Week

    Back in January the behind the popular Tablo DVR announced that they would be launching a new premium service for customers who want to use the automatic commercial skipping feature. In the past the commercial skipping beta we free now as it exits beta you will need to pay more in order to use Tablo’s…

  • Pluto TV Launches a 24/7 McLeod’s Daughters Channel

    Pluto TV Launches a 24/7 McLeod’s Daughters Channel

    Today Pluto TV added the 24/7 McLeod’s Daughters Channel 373 to their free streaming service.  Here is how Pluto TV describes the new McLeod’s Daughters Channel 373: Saddle up for the drama and romance of one of Australia’s most popular TV series, McLeod’s Daughters. Pluto TV viewers can watch the entire saga of the epic story…

  • VIZIO Announces 5 New SmartCast TV Apps

    VIZIO Announces 5 New SmartCast TV Apps

    Today, VIZIO announced 5 new apps coming to VIZIO SmartCast TVs in partnership with the Matchpoint Blueprint platform. These new apps include CONtv, Dove Channel, Bambu, Comedy Dynamics, and Docurama. “We’re pleased to have Cinedigm’s Matchpoint Blueprint platform as a means for content owners and distributors to quickly and easily develop applications for VIZIO SmartCast,”…

  • Cord Cutting Moves Forward in 2020 with ATSC 3.0 OTA TV! We Take a Look at the New OTA TV Standard

    Cord Cutting Moves Forward in 2020 with ATSC 3.0 OTA TV! We Take a Look at the New OTA TV Standard

    In 2020, broadcast TV stations plan to launch the new next gen over-the-air TV standard ATSC 3.0 in 60 markets and on 20 TV models. This new standard will bring a long list of improvements like 4K and better OTA TV coverage yet many still don’t know what ATSC 3.0 is. Today, we break down…

  • AT&T’s DIRECTV, U-Verse, & AT&T TV NOW Lost Over 4 Million TV Subscribers in 2019

    AT&T’s DIRECTV, U-Verse, & AT&T TV NOW Lost Over 4 Million TV Subscribers in 2019

    2019 was a very bad year for cable TV owners. We are now getting an idea of just how bad it was. We learned that AT&T lost over 4 million TV subscribers in 2019 when looking at DIRECTV, U-Verse TV, and AT&T TV NOW. AT&T has been excitedly pointing out that losses slowed slightly in…

  • YouTube TV Now Has Over 2 Million Subscribers

    YouTube TV Now Has Over 2 Million Subscribers

    Today Google announced that YouTube TV now has over 2 million subscribers; this puts YouTube TV in 3rd place behind Hulu and Sling TV. This is the first time in some time that YouTube TV has officially announced subscriber numbers. It had been hinted that YouTube TV had over 2 million subscribers, but today it…

  • The Free Streaming Service XUMO TV Adds 2 New Channels

    The Free Streaming Service XUMO TV Adds 2 New Channels

    Today the free streaming service XUMO TV added the Chive TV Channel 291 and K-Pop Channel 511 to its lineup. With these new channels, you will be able to watcha huge collection of programing about the world of a huge range of topics including Korean K-pop. What is XUMO? XUMO is a free streaming service with…

  • How to Watch The Iowa Caucuses Results on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More

    How to Watch The Iowa Caucuses Results on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More

    Today February 3rd, 2020 the Iowa Caucuses will happen for the Democratic candidates. The good news is you don’t need a two-year contract with your cable TV provider to watch the results. Right now there are many options to stream CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC, and even many free options on your Roku, Fire TV,…

  • Comcast Warns of More Price Hikes in 2020

    Comcast Warns of More Price Hikes in 2020

    Last month Comcast announced that they had lost 732,000 TV customers in 2019. Comcast went on to warn that TV prices are expected to increase in 2020. Not a shock as Comcast has raised TV prices already in 2020 just a few months after announcing the last round of price hikes. For now, Comcast has…

  • How to Watch the Super Bowl For FREE on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More

    How to Watch the Super Bowl For FREE on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More

    Today Sunday, February 2nd, 2020, at 6:30 PM Eastern Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City Chiefs will kick-off. This year there are more options than ever for cord cutters to stream the big game. The game will air on FOX and cord cutters will have many options to stream it.  …