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The OTA Network Laff Adds ‘Home Improvement’ As Part of a New Disney Deal
Today the OTA network Laff announced a deal with Disney that will give Laff access to Disney owned content including Home Improvement. This is a multi-year licensing agreement that will give Laff rights to air the Emmy-winning Home Improvement for free over the air. “Laff is becoming the sitcom hall-of-fame. Home Improvement adds to an incredible collection of…
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Amazon Cuts The Cost of Prime For Medicaid Recipients
Do you receive Medicaid? As of today, that means you can get Amazon Prime for as little as $5.99 a month. (Totally $71.88 a year.) This will give you full access to all Amazon Prime perks including two-day shipping on millions of products, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Photos, Prime Reading, Prime Now, Audible Channels, and more.…
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Washington’s Governor Signs Net Neutrality Bill
As the FCC turns control of the internet over to the FTC many states are making moves to save net neutrality. Recently New York State and others signed laws to force any companies who have a contract with the state to honor net neutrality principles. Washington State is the first to pass a law and…
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DIRECTV NOW Will Offer 20 Hours of DVR For FREE & Allow You to Buy Extra Storage
For months we have heard DIRECTV NOW staff talk about how their new DVR will bring in extra revenue. Now we can confirm that DIRECTV NOW’s new DVR will offer 20 hours for free and allow you to buy 100 hours of storage for an extra fee. Last week DIRECTV NOW sent out emails telling…
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PlayStation Vue Removes “Out of Home” Mobile Restrictions
Yesterday PlayStation Vue started to update their iOS apps and the biggest new feature is the fact that they removed “Out of Home” mobile restrictions. Now you can watch all of your channels on the go even when you are out of town. Here are the notes from this week’s PlayStation Vue update: No more…
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As of Today Discovery Now Owns HGTV, The Travel Channel, & More
Today Discovery announced that they have completed the process of buying Scripps Networks. With this deal, Discovery now owns channels like HGTV, The Travel Channel, Food Network, and more. With this deal, Discovery is one step closer to launching their new streaming service that will carry both Discovery and Scripps owned content start at $6 a month. “Today marks…
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Twitch Adds Cable Sports Network Eleven Sports
Today Twitch an Amazon owned streaming service and Eleven Sports a cable sports network announced a new deal to stream Eleven Sports on Twitch. With this deal you will now be able to watch basketball, baseball, football and hockey on Twitch. Eleven Sports carries content from Big Sky Conference, Ivy League, Southland Conference, and UMass Minutemen college football game.…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Fox Wants to Cut Ads Down to 2 Minutes Per Hour
Recently Fox announced a major new effort to reduce ads to 2 minutes per hour by 2020. This comes from Fox Networks Group’s ad sales chief, Joe Marchese who spoke at a private industry event hosted last week in Los Angeles. During this event, Joe Marchese spoke to advertisers, buyers, and executives from rival media companies. “The two…
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Apple Is Rolling Out a New tvOS 11.3 Beta
Yesterday Apple started to roll out the fourth beta version of their Apple TV tvOS 11.3 beta to developers. While this may not be available on your Apple TV today, it gives us some insight into the future of the Apple TV. Some of the new features include Match Content Support and automatic frame rate…
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DIRECTV NOW is Adding More Sinclair Owned Fox Affiliates
Once again DIRECTV NOW is adding new affiliates this week. Last week DIRECTV NOW added the NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston, Texas. Giving Houston TX subscribers access to all 4 major locals and my20, Univision, and Telemundo. DIRECTV NOW also added Fox KDSM in Des Moines, IA. This means DIRECTV NOW subscribers in Des Moines,…
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T-Mobile is Expecting a ‘Quick Payback’ on Their New Live TV Service
T-Mobile is spending big with the goal of getting their new live TV streaming service. It started with a deal to buy Layer3 TV for $325 and an additional $150 million investment into R&D and steps toward a launch later this year. Even with this heavy spending T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter said they expect a quick payback…
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The Ultimate Guide to Funimation Now Streaming Service
While it’s possible to find some anime on services like Hulu and Netflix, the selection is minimal. The options available might be enough for someone just getting into the genre, but won’t offer the lesser known titles and updated content that anime aficionados are looking for. Luckily, there are several streaming services dedicated to anime.…
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YouTube TV’s Price Goes Up Next Week
Back in February YouTube TV announced that they are adding new channels but also that they will be raising their price. Starting March 14 new subscribers to YouTube TV will be paying $40 a month for the service. So right now you only have about a week left to get YouTube TV for $35. According to reports…
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Sling TV Now Offers 28 Channels at 60FPS
As live TV streaming services mature the focus now is increasingly going from whether they have the channels and shows I watch to video quality. One of the main things people look at when it comes to video quality is frames per second, or fps. Frames per second tells you how many times the image…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of March 5th 2018
Netflix March 5th F*&% the Prom (2017) The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (Season 1) Voltron: Legendary Defender (Season 5) Netflix Original Series March 6th Borderliner (Season 1) Gad Elmaleh: American Dream Benji (1974) For the Love of Benji (1977) March 7th Aftershock (2012) David Tennant’s Kilgrave returns to season 2 of Jessica Jones. March 8th…
