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Walmart is Reportedly Considering Selling Vudu
Today The Information reported that Walmart is looking into selling Vudu. According to reports, Walmart has concluded that in order to hold up against new competition, it would have to invest substantially in Vudu. As an alternative, Walmart is now reportedly thinking about selling instead of pouring money into Vudu. Vudu first launched back in…
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Spectrum & ACE Team Up to Crack Down on Password Sharing & Unauthorized Access to Content
Recently Spectrum announced partnerships with FOX and Disney to crack down on password sharing. Today Spectrum teamed up with The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) to crack down on unauthorized access to content through password sharing and inadequate encryption. ACE was created to help crack down on piracy and has lead several major lawsuits…
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AT&T Announces New Unlimited Wireless Plans Starting at $35 a Month With Free HBO MAX
Today AT&T announced new unlimited wireless plans starting at $35 a month when you signup for 4 lines. These new AT&T Wireless plans will take effect this Sunday and are called AT&T Unlimited Starter and AT&T Unlimited Extra. Later on, an AT&T Unlimited Elite plan will also be released for $50 a month with 4…
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Forget Halloween, Hallmark Channel has Four New Christmas Movies Starting October 31, 2019
Time to put away the Halloween candy and start decking the halls because Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is giving fans an early Christmas with four new movies premiering this week. These movies kick off the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Miracles of Christmas and 10th anniversary of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas programming…
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PlayStation Vue Could Lose The Hallmark Channel & Tastemade in November
Yesterday Sony announced it’s shutting down its live TV streaming service PlayStation Vue. The shutdown will happen on January 30th, 2019. Because of this decision, it is very unlikely that Sony will renew any deals that are coming up over the next few months. Sony recently posted a warning that Crown Media, the parent company…
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Hulu Hires Scott Donaton as The New Head of Creative
Today Hulu announced that they have a new Head of Creative with the hire of Scott Donaton. With this new role, Donaton will lead Hulu’s creative teams responsible for Hulu’s ad system. “Scott Donaton is a visionary whose experience bringing together creative and content practices, coupled with his background in media, makes him the ideal…
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Apple Announces Free Apple TV+ For Apple Music Student Subscribers
Apple has announced a bundle deal that gives Apple Music Student subscribers a free year of Apple TV+. Actress Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Emily Dickinson in the new Apple TV+ series Dickinson, shared the news on her Instagram story, saying “Apple is letting me share with you some very exciting news. For those of you…
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SiriusXM is Coming to Google Assistant With Three Months of Free SiriusXM
If you subscribe to SiriusXM you now have a new way to listen to your radio stations. Today SiriusXM and Google announced a partnership that will bring SiriusXM to Google Assistant. This means you will now be able to use your voice with Google Assistant to access your favorite SiriusXM content. Google says that later…
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Locast Now Offers Free TV in Seattle With Access to ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, & More
Today Locast announced that they are expanding free TV into the Seattle-Tacoma area. Locast is a live TV streaming service that launched back in January 2018 in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Recently, Locast has been rolling out to new markets including South Dakota. With…
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Is Cord Cutting Doomed? Will More Cord Cutting Services Shutdown? We Take a Look
Yesterday after months of rumors, Sony officially announced that PlayStation Vue would be shutting down. This has raised many questions about the future of cord cutting and if other streaming services will shut down as well. So let’s take a look at the prospect of cord cutting in a post-PlayStation Vue world. Is Cord Cutting…
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T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet For $50 a Month With No Data Cap
Back in March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home internet services launch. Now T-Mobile has launched a website to promote its $50 a month…
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HBO MAX will Be Bundled With AT&T TV & Will Launch in May 2020 for $14.99/Month
Today, AT&T is hosting WarnerMedia Day. This is intended to give us more information about the upcoming HBO Max streaming service. AT&T says that AT&T TV will be bundled with HBO MAX. (Note AT&T said AT&T TV, not AT&T TV NOW.) HBO MAX will launch in May 2020 and will include the entire HBO service.…
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NBC News’s Free Streaming Service Will Expand to Offer 24/7 Live Streaming in 2020
Today NBC announced that they will be expanding their free NBC News Now service from 8 hours a day to 24 hours a day live news coverage starting in 2020. NBC said this shift to 24/7 live free news would happen in the first half of 2020. NBC News Now currently offers 8 hours of…
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Viacom & Facebook Agree To a New Streaming Partnership
Today Viacom and Facebook announced a new partnership that would see Viacom create original short-form programming for the social media platform’s Facebook Watch streaming service according to a report from Deadline. “The point I’d let you know that’s really exciting is that it’s a multi-territory, worldwide partnership with Facebook,” said Brendan Yam, the Senior VP and…
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Here Are 5 Cord Cutting Options to Replace PlayStation Vue When it Shuts Down in January
Today, Sony announced that they will be shutting down PlayStation Vue on January 30, 2020. If you’ve been a PlayStation Vue subscriber, you’ll likely be looking for a new service to watch live TV and on-demand video. These are five alternatives to consider. Hulu Like PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV offers the sports, news,…
