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Viacom Promotes John Curbishley to Oversee Viacom’s New Business Unit within Viacom’s Distribution and Business Development Team
This week Cord Cutters News had an opportunity to talk with John Curbishley, the newly promoted EVP of Distribution Strategy, Operations, and New Business at Viacom. Curbishley is now responsible for identifying distribution opportunities with new and emerging business, like streaming. Curbishley will oversee Viacom’s efforts with subscription streaming services, ad-supported streaming services, and traditional…
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YouTube TV vs. PlayStation Vue: Which is the Better Deal? We Take a Look (Updated July 2019)
With many streaming services making changes to their pricing and channel lineups, it’s a good time to revisit our streaming service comparisons. In this post, we’re looking at YouTube TV and the Core plan from PlayStation Vue, which has a similar number of channels. Plans and Pricing YouTube TV costs $49.99/month. The streaming service doesn’t…
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AT&T’s Donation to Locast Makes a Lot of Sense Now…
Over the last month, AT&T has become a huge supporter of Locast, a free with ads streaming service that gives users access to local TV channels. Recently, AT&T added Locast to DIRECTV and U-verse set-top boxes. Later, AT&T donated $500,000 to Locast to support the nonprofit group that runs it. Now the reasons behind AT&T’s…
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Here Are The Top 10 FREE Amazon Fire TV Apps As of July 2019
The Fire TV library of apps has been quickly growing to offer a range of apps giving users access to a ton of 100 percent free content; however, many of the apps are not video apps, so it can be challenging to find good cord cutting apps. So here are the top 10 free video Fire TV apps…
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Warning $0.99 Hulu Subscribers: You Could Lose Your Promotional Pricing if You Change Anything
Many Cord Cutters News readers took advantage of a great deal Hulu was offering back in November, offering a Hulu limited commercial plan for just $0.99 per month for the first 12 months. This Cyber Monday deal was available only for new subscribers and those who had not been subscribed in the past 12 months. Hulu…
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ESPN+ Is Adding More College Football & Basketball Games
Earlier this year ESPN and the AAC announced a new deal that gives rights to AAC sports to ESPN. Part of this deal includes bringing more AAC content such as a majority of AAC basketball and even a significant number of football games to ESPN. Some AAC games will still air on ESPN, ESPN 2,…
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Netflix & Amazon Dominate Cord Cutting, But Hulu Is Growing
When looking at who is dominating cord cutting it’s hard to ignore Netflix and Amazon, but Hulu is rapidly growing. To figure out who is currently leading the world of subscription video services, we asked over 3,000 of our readers what streaming services they use. According to our readers, 73.3% pay for Amazon and 70.1%…
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How to Fix Buffering on Roku, Fire TV, & Apple TV
Buffering is extremely annoying no matter when it happens. The good news is most buffering is something you can fix on your end. Today we are going to look at four tips to fix buffering on the Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV. Tip #1: Make Sure You Are Getting the Internet Speed You Are…
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AT&T’s New DIRECTV Streaming Service Will Reportedly Be Called AT&T TV & Will Soft Launch in August 2019
For months now, we have heard that AT&T was working on a new live TV streaming service. This new service would be separate from DIRECTV NOW and was being built to replace DIRECTV. AT&T reportedly wants to try to move over DIRECTV customers to a cheaper streaming version to help save AT&T money. With a…
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AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, & U-Verse TV Drops Nexstar Owned ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Locals
Did you wake up this morning to find your local ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC affiliate dark? Right now AT&T and Nexstar are in a fight over fees. This fight has resulted in AT&T removing most Nexstar owned locals from DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, and U-Verse TV, Blackouts like this are not new and the channels…
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EXPIRED: The Amazon Fire TV Recast DVR is On Sale For $129.99 or Get The 1 TB For $179.99 (A New All-Time Low Price)
Been thinking about getting a Fire TV Recast OTA DVR for your antenna? Right now Amazon now has The Fire TV Recast DVR again on sale for a new all-time low price. You can get the Fire TV Recast DVR 500GB version for $129.99 typically $229.99. Or you can get the 1TB version with 150…
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Most Cord Cutters Use Cable Internet But Fiber & Wireless Home Internet is Growing
One of the biggest questions we get is what internet service should a new cord cutter get. There are many options for home internet and the number of internet providers is growing. So which one should you get? We decided to ask our readers what they used to answer that question. In our survey of…
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Here is Every Show Coming to Apple TV+
Apple officially announced their new Apple TV+ streaming service back in March. The streaming service is set to launch sometime this fall and the price is still unknown. In the meantime, we’ve gathered information about some of the new shows and movies we can expect to see on Apple TV+. The Morning Show– Apple is…
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No, Netflix Is Not Planning to Run Ads At Least Right Now
Over the last few months, a flood of TV industry and advertising executives have been pushing the idea that Netflix will run ads. Stories like this one from CNBC push the idea that “Netflix will have no choice but to run ads.” Stories like this have lead to many of our readers believing that Netflix…
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EXPIRED: Deal Alert: 58″ 4K HDR Roku TV From Sharp For Just $299.99 & 30 Days Free Sling TV
Want a large but cheap 4k HDR Roku TV? Right now you can get a 58″ 4K HDR Roku TV from Sharp for just $299.99 at Best Buy. In my local area, this deal is only available online but you can order instore pickup but there is no same day pickup listed online. Plus if…
