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Sony Crackle Updates Their App & Adds Alexa Support
Sony Crackle is a free ad-supported streaming service that offers a large collection of movies and TV shows on a long list of platforms. This week Sony Crackle updated their Fire TV app to add a fresh new look and Alexa support. Now you can use Alexa to find titles and control playback. Sony Crackle…
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Editorial: Live TV Streaming Will Never Succeed Unless They Can Speak a Language Their Customers Understand
This week I attended the Pay TV Show in Denver and had an opportunity to hear from some of the biggest names in cable TV and live TV streaming. PlayStation Vue, Philo, Sling TV, Pluto TV, fuboTV, Hulu, Amazon, and a host of others companies all sent executives to the event. During the talk it…
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Over One-Third of DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation Vue, & Sling TV’s Customers Also Have Cable TV
This week at the Denver Pay TV Show, Joel Espelien, a senior analyst at TDG, opened up about their cord cutting studies. One of the most interesting was a look at who is paying for a live TV streaming service—such as Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, and Hulu—and cable TV. According to Espelien, 36.9% of live…
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Expired: Amazon Has $1.99 Rentals on Marvel Movies, DEADPOOL, & More
Looking for a movie to watch? Right now Amazon has $1.99 rentals on a long list of movies from Marvel and others including DEADPOOL. Right now you can find Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider, Captain America Civil War, Thor, Ant-Man, Avengers, and more all for rent just $1.99. Note when you look at them in…
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Here is Everything New on Hulu in June 2018
Coming to Hulu in June June 1 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) 2 Days in the Valley (1996) A Beautiful Mind (2001) A Better Life (2011) (*Showtime) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) (*Showtime) Across the Universe (2007) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) Apollo 13 (1995) Beer for My Horses…
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Editorial: Hey Cable TV Wake Up! Cord Cutters Just Don’t Want What You’re Offering
This week at the Pay TV Show in Denver, I had an opportunity to meet with and hear from some of the biggest names in cable TV and live TV streaming. PlayStation Vue, Philo, Sling TV, Pluto TV, fuboTV, Hulu, Amazon, and a host of others companies all sent executives to the event. During the…
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93 Local Stations Just Started Streaming Free Online
This week Gray Television announced that they have teamed up with SBTV to stream their 93 local stations online. With this deal Gray Television affiliates will be able to stream their local programming and a host of other content for free through their apps, website, the SBTV app, and a host of live TV streaming…
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CBS All Access 1 Month FREE Trial is Back (This Weekend Only)
CBS All-Access now offers over 8,500 episodes on demand of award winning CBS content. New episodes are added the next day and in a growing list of areas you also get a live stream of your local CBS affiliate. Currently, CBS All-Access is available on smart phones, tablets, PCs, Macs, Roku, Fire TV, Xbox 360, Xbox…
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FOX Teams Up With AT&T to Test 4K Streaming Over 5G
5G has been a dream of cord cutters for years, and the idea of true competition coming to the home internet market is now looking like a reality. In their effort to roll out 5G home internet later this year, AT&T has teamed up with FOX to test 4K streaming over 5G. During this test,…
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DIRECTV NOW is Giving $75 Credits to 1st Gen Fire TV & Fire Stick Owners
Back in April DIRECTV NOW suddenly dropped support for 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick with no warning. When 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick owners opened their DIRECTV NOW app, they found a message notifying them that they needed to update their app. Sadly when they tried to update the app, they…
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Study: The Top 5 Reasons People Ditch Cable For Cord Cutting
This week at the Denver Pay TV Show, Joel Espelien, a senior analyst at TDG opened up about their cord cutting studies. One of the most interesting was a look at what finally made people move to cord cutting. Often people have been thinking about cord cutting and plan to do it, but TDG recently…
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Charter’s SVP Says They Have to “Become Better” At Delivering Content People Want in the Face of Cord Cutting
Today at the Pay TV Show in Denver, Gary Schanman, the SVP of Video Products at Charter Communications, opened up about cord cutting. Schanman says everyone wants content; we have to figure out how they want their content. Charter has to “become better” at delivering the content people want. The moderator, Mike Dano from Firececable,…
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AT&T Plans to Double LTE Speeds in 500 Markets This Year
Yesterday AT&T announced plans to double their LTE speeds in 500 markets thanks to their investment in FirstNet. FirstNet is the wireless network used by first responders and AT&T is upgrading their system in response to their FirstNet contract. AT&T will be physically upgrading towers in over 500 markets. “We have to climb every cell…
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YouTube TV Adds The TYT Network
Today YouTube TV added The Young Turks Network. This brings a new 24-hour news service to YouTube TV helping them expand their news coverage. ABOUT ‘THE YOUNG TURKS’ AND TYT NETWORK TYT Network is the largest online talk, news and entertainment networks for the connected generation. The award-winning TYT is one of the top multi-platform…
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YouTube TV Adds Tastemade to Their Lineup
Today YouTube TV announced the addition of Tastemade to their lineup. Tastemade will deliver original programs on categories of food, home, and travel, and provide a 24/7 linear channel with hundreds of hours of original programing, including 10 new episodic series to roll out over the next year, plus live programming and thematic blocks. “When we…
