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Verizon Has a Newly Updated App to Stop Spam Calls That Can Stop 42 Billion Unwanted Calls
Today, Verizon announced a newly upgraded Call Filter app that will help cut back on the amount of spam calls. According to Verizon, this app already stopped more than 42 billion unwanted calls. The Call Filter app can be downloaded for free for basic features like Spam Detection, Spam Filter, Spam and blocked call logs,…
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Roku Announces Its Black Friday Deals Including A Roku Ultra For Just $69.99 Along With AMC+, Hallmark Movies NOW, Starz & More Starting at Just $0.99
Today, Roku announced its Black Friday deals that will include deals on streaming players, including the Roku Ultra for just $69.99 and streaming services for jut $0.99 on select services. According to Roku, these deals will start November 12, 2023, and run through December 2, 2023. As soon as they are live we will have…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Wants to Bundle Max With Cable TV So It Can Get More Paying Customers
Today, during Warner Bros. Discovery’s earnings call CEO David Zaslav talked about the Spectrum and Disney deal that will force every cable TV subscriber to pay for Disney+ as a great success. He also suggested Warner Bros. Discovery also wants a similar deal that will result in every cable TV subscriber to pay for Max,…
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Amazon Wants to Be Your Doctor With 24/7 On-Demand Healthcare For Just $9 a Month or $99 A Year For Prime Members
Want anytime access to on-demand virtual health care nationwide? Or the ability to schedule in-person visits at hundreds of One Medical offices for just $9 a month or $99 a year? Now you can do just that thanks to a new program from Amazon for Amazon Prime Members. Now, not only can you stream shows…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Lost 700,000 Max & Discovery+ Customers In The 3rd Quarter of 2023 But There is Good News
Today, Warner Bros. Discovery reported that it lost 700,000 MAX and Discovery+ during the 3rd quarter of 2023. Yet the good news was that Warner Bros. Discovery’s stream services earned $111 million with adjusted EBITDA. Over all, it is hoped that Max will soon break even or become profitable soon. This all comes as MAX…
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Update: DIRECTV STREAM is Not Adding Fees But Leaves the Option to Add a Two-Year Contract, RSN Fee, Activation Fee, and ETF, According to Updated Help Page
DIRECTV this week alerted customers of its DIRECTV Stream service to an updated terms of service, bringing to light a new set of potential fees to cover regional sports network, service activation, and early termination with a two-year term commitment. While the page isn’t new and DIRECTV does not plan to charge these fees or…
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ATSC 3.0 Nextgen OTA TV Has a Major DRM Problem That Makes It Hard For Cord Cutters to Enjoy Free OTA TV
ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV has a ton of promise and many great features like better range and the possibility of free 4K TV with your antenna. But ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV also comes with digital rights management also known as DRM. This has resulted in many cord cutters not being able to enjoy free OTA…
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AI is the Biggest Reason the Hollywood Actors Strike Isn’t Ending
SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee on Sunday said it formally responded to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ “last, best and final offer,” noting that the two sides remain far apart on some issues. “There are several essential items on which we still do not have an agreement, including AI,” the committee said in a…
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Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate, & More Team Up to Launch a Free Streaming & Live OTA TV Network
Today, Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate, and Gray Television announced a partnership with a new company owned by Jonathan Katz called Free TV Networks. This partnership will see the companies work together to create free networks offered both over-the-air TV and through streaming. The first of these networks, called The365, will offer 24/7 feeds of African-American…
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The Detroit CW Feud With Nexstar Gets Ugly With Cease and Desist Letter
Kevin Adell, the owner of Detroit-area TV station WADL, sent a cease and desist letter to rival local station WMYD and parent E.W. Scripps demanding it kill its plans to start carrying The CW Network next week.WA The fate of where The CW heads to in Detroit is up in the air thanks to an…
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Crunchyroll Pulls a Netflix and Unveils Free Mobile Games For Subscribers
Crunchyroll is following in Netflix’s footsteps and offering free mobile games to some of its subscribers. The anime streaming service on Tuesday unveiled Crunchyroll Game Vault, which includes five games available to members on its Mega and Ultimate Fan tiers, the upper two tiers of its subscription plans. The games include Captain Velvet Meteor: The…
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YouTube TV Has Signed Up 1.3 Million NFL Sunday Ticket Subscribers, Antenna Study Says
Google’s YouTube is making the most of having NFL’s Sunday Ticket in its lineup, with one study estimating it has 1.3 million subscribers. Of that total, which was calculated in a study by research firm Antenna, 62% of the sign-ups have occurred through existing YouTube TV customers. The NFL’s own NFL+ service, featuring live local…
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WWE NXT Finds a New Home at The CW
The WWE said that WWE NXT, which showcases its up-and-coming wrestling talent, will move from the USA Network to The CW in October 2024. The move comes after the WWE announced that its Friday Night Smackdown program will return to the USA Network that same month after striking a five-year deal with NBC Universal. By…
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Cox and Nexstar Sign Multi-Year Distribution Deal For Local ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC Stations, Heading Off Any Blackouts
Nexstar and Cox Communications said they have signed a multi-year distribution agreement for the cable company to carry Nexstar’s channels across the country. The deal cover Nexstar’s local TV stations in 23 markets in the U.S., as well as news network NewsNation and digital networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV. The companies did not disclose…
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Walmart Will Add Sensory-Friendly Hours to All U.S. Stores
Walmart said on Tuesday that it will begin offering “sensory friendly” hours to all of its U.S. and Puerto Rico stores every morning in an effort to make its locations more accessible. The company’s stores will change the TV walls to a static image turn off the radio, and lower the lights where possible in…
