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NBA Suspended Season Will Cost Disney $306 Million, AT&T $168 Million
This week, the NBA made the decision to suspend the rest of this season after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. While this is an obvious letdown to those working in the League and to fans, media companies will also be taking a hit. Michael Nathanson, of analyst firm MoffettNathanson, estimates…
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Your Public Library Is a Great FREE Cord Cutting Resource
If you have been around Cord Cutters News for any amount of time, you have heard us talk about how great public libraries are. Yet many still don’t know you can get free movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and more with a library card. In 2020, your public library is probably the best-kept cord…
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How to Watch the CNN Global Town Hall for Coronavirus Tonight
Tonight, Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta will host a two hour special CNN Global Town Hall – Coronavirus: Fact and Fears with Facebook and Instagram, focusing on the Coronavirus. The event will begin tonight at 10pm ET/12am PT on CNN, CNN International, CNN.com, and Facebook. You can watch CNN live on Sling TV, Hulu, AT&T…
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Disney+ Launches 3 Weeks Early in India
Disney+ has arrived in India via the OTT streaming service Hotstar. The launch of Disney+ comes three weeks ahead of schedule for India, with the original date set to be March 29. There’s no word on why the launch date was moved up, but it comes as a pleasant surprise for Disney fans in India.…
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Apple TV+ is Postponing Production on Season 2 of ‘The Morning Show’
The Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show is taking a two-week break from production in direct response to spreading fears over the coronavirus pandemic. Much of Hollywood is starting to react by some form of preventative measure and this is the latest demonstration. Apple and the show’s studio Media Res made the joint decision to put production…
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Disney+ is Giving Gaston a Live-Action Prequel Series
Gaston may not get the girl in Beauty and The Beast, but he is getting his own musical, live-action mini-series on Disney+. That’s right, it looks like we’ll finally find out what makes Gaston the way that he is in this origin story set to be a prequel to the classic tale as old as time. So…
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Vudu Adds Lists Feature for Favorite Movies and Shows
Today, Vudu announced a new Lists feature that will allow users to create “ultra customized lists” in order to better organize their favorite movies and TV shows however they want. The new feature gives customers more control by allowing them to organize movies and TV shows however they want, curating their own library of content. For example,…
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Amazon’s Home Internet Service Has Reportedly Completed a New Round of Testing
For some time now, Amazon has been looking at ways to offer high speed internet. The most well known of these efforts is how Amazon is working on putting satellites into space to offer high speed internet from space. Recently though, Amazon seems to be looking to build out a wireless network on the ground…
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Another Competitor Joins the Bidding War for Your Local Channels
Many cord cutters have found that they can drop expensive cable packages and still enjoy many of their local channels with an antenna. Antenna sales are on the rise with many choosing this free alternative for watching local TV. Media companies are taking note of the popularity of OTA TV and are willing to make…
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Free Streaming Service STIRR and LiveXLive are Launching New Music Channel
Live entertainment-focused media group LiveXLive and is producing a slate of original content for a new music channel on STIRR. The two companies announced their latest collaboration earlier today with the channel set to launch in later this month. “We are excited to continue to evolve our relationship with STIRR,” said Dermot McCormack, president, LiveXLive.…
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How to Stay Under Your Data Cap When You Cut the Cord
Cutting the cord can be a great way to save money but many cable companies try to scare new cord cutters with data caps. These artificial caps on how much data you can use before you are charged extra can be intimidating to new cord cutters. The good news is you don’t need to worry:…
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AT&T is Getting Closer to Selling Regional Sports Networks
At an investors conference this week, AT&T CFO John Stephens commented on the company’s regional sports networks, suggesting that there could be interested buyers and that an auction for the networks could be nearing an end. We reported on AT&T looking into selling its regional sports networks last year, in an attempt for the company…
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Netflix, Hulu, Amazon & More are Thriving After Awards Season
It’s been a battle for streaming services to find their place in major awards shows. In April 2019, the Oscars voted to allow Netflix and others to qualify for awards, after some debate within the industry. Since then, streaming services have brought home nominations and awards at the Emmys, Oscars, and even Grammys.For this year’s…
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Here are All the New Anime Shows Available on Netflix This Month
Recently we reported on Netflix expanding its anime library. And March is a reasonably busy month of new anime coming to Netflix in March 2020. We see the return of an awesome, and long-anticipated, Original series, not to mention one of the most in-demand anime since October 2019. Here are all the new anime series…
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Disney+ Won’t be Adding ‘Song of The South’ to its Catalog
Even with a disclaimer, Disney+ has announced it will not be adding the film ‘Song of The South’ to its streaming platform. The 1945 live-action/animated cartoon is set in post-civil war Georgia and has long been considered controversial given its depiction of black people on a southern plantation. Despite its memorable characters including Uncle Remus, Br’er…
