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Amazon’s Thursday Night Football Accounts For 25% of All Internet Traffic on Comcast’s Internet Network
Today, Comcast announced during its 3rd quarter 2023 earnings call that Thursday night is now its peak internet traffic thanks to NFL streaming Thursday Night Football, with 25% of all internet traffic on Comcast’s network coming from Amazon’s Thursday Night Football stream. This comes as Amazon says Thursday Night NFL Football now averages 12.91 million…
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The CW & NewsNation is Coming to An Airport & Hotel Near You
Today, Nexstar Media Group announced a deal with ReachTV that will see them add The CW and NewsNation. ReachTV offers streaming TV to 500,000 hotel rooms and 2,500+ airport TV screens in more than 90 major aiprots across the United States. “Nexstar always looks for ways to extend the distribution of NewsNation and The CW…
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The War On IPTV Continues As Twenty Arrested in Major IPTV Network Shutdown
Austrian law enforcement said it took down a large illegal IPTV operation that amassed up to 11 million euros, or about $11.6 million, over the last three years. Investigators followed up on a complaint from a TV company from 2022 that resulted in 20 arrests as well as the seizure of 1.6 million euros (almost…
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Peacock Added 4 Million New Subscribers But Lost $565 Million In The 3rd Quarter 2023
Today, Comcast announced its 3rd quarter 2023 earnings report that showed it once again losing over 490,000 TV customers. Comcast did report that Peacock added 4 million new subscribers but lost $565 million. In total, Peacock now has 28 million subscribers. “We delivered strong financial results in the third quarter, while also investing in long-term…
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Comcast Lost Over 490,000 TV Customers & Lost 18,000 Internet Customers in Q3 2023 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up
Cord cutting is continuing to hit Comcast hard as the company has recently lost both TV and internet customers. In Comcast’s 3rd quarter earnings report released this morning, the company reported it lost 490,000 video customer losses. That works out to almost 5,300 Subscribers Every Day. The company lost 18,000 broadband customers for the quarter.…
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T-Mobile CEO Denies its Planning to Buy a Cable TV Company
T-Mobile isn’t looking to buy a cable TV company after all. Speculation that the No. 2 wireless company was working with activist investment firm Jana Partners to acquire cable TV and internet provider Frontier swirled last week. Reuters had reported that Jana had taken a stake in Frontier and was pressuring it to sell. T-Mobile…
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Amazon Can Now Treat Your Cough, Cold, Or Flu, Replacing The Need to See Your Doctor
Amazon will let people too busy to make a doctor appointment consult with a clinician on a quick video chat or through direct messages through its Amazon Virtual Clinic and get prescriptions to help address colds, coughs, or the flu. With Amazon Clinic, you can now complete a short form with your current symptoms and…
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Skip Video Work Meetings With This AI Tool
Microsoft is set to launch Copilot next week, an artificial intelligence tool designed to streamline your work life, and it’s already teasing one potential killer app: The AI’s ability to attend meetings in your place. Because Copilot is embedded into Microsoft Office Suite apps like Teams, it can summarize meeting notes, chat notes, and emails…
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DIRECTV Partners With Local Fiber Internet Provider to Offer Streaming TV Packages
DIRECTV and Greenlight Networks, a broadband provider serving two dozen communities in New York, have partnered to bundle fiber internet with streaming video in a rare deal that highlights the changing dynamics of the pay-TV industry. The partnership, announced earlier this month, gives Greenlight customers access to a package that includes DIRECTV via internet or…
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More Than Half of U.S. Households Dealt With a Data Privacy Problem, Study Says
As more households turn to smart devices to simplify their lives, protecting your devices from malicious actors is essential to securing digital safety. A study from Parks Associates, a leading authority in consumer and market research, shows a concerning trend in security threats stemming from smart device use. The “Privacy and Data Protection for Connected…
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Sling TV Freestream Adds Eight New Free Channels This Week
Sling TV has been steadily adding more channels to its free ad-supported streaming service, Sling TV Freestream. This week, Sling TV added eight new channels to its Freestream lineup. This comes on top of the nine new channels added to Sling TV Freestream last week. In total, it offers over 430 free channels and more…
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Apple’s AirPods May Be In For a Big Redesign
Apple is planning an “end-to-end” refresh of its AirPods wireless earbuds. The plans include a revamped version of the original AirPods and AirPods Max, due for release in 2024, and a new Pro model in 2025, sources close to the matter told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The refreshed AirPods will reportedly sport a new earbud design…
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FCC Will Tackle Digital Discrimination and Equal Access to Broadband This November
Digital discrimination, or “digital redlining,” is a practice where broadband providers focus on offering service in more affluent areas at the expense of poor, more diverse communities. The Federal Communications Commission aims to stop this with its latest proposed rule. Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel raised the issue at the 41st Annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in…
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T-Mobile Kills its Forced Migration Test: ‘We’ve Got Plenty of Feedback’
T-Mobile is no longer going forward with its “small-scale test” to automatically move legacy customers to newer, more expensive plans. T-Mobile Chief Executive Mike Sievert confirmed on a Wednesday call with investors that it no longer needs proceed with it “because I think we’ve got plenty of feedback. “We’ve learned that particular test cell isn’t…
