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Tubi Gets a New CEO From Vimeo & Now Has More Viewing Time Than Peacock & Max
Today Fox announced that its free ad-supported streaming service Tubi is getting a new CEO. Anjali Sud will join Tubi as Chief Executive Officer effective September 1st, 2023. With this new Farhad Massoudi, Tubi’s Founder and current CEO will be stepping aside as CEO. “Anjali is a highly accomplished executive in the technology and media…
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Comcast is Adding 20 Free Ad-Supported Channels to The X1 Channel Guide As It Copies Fubo, Philo, & More
Today Comcast announced that it will add 20 free ad-supported channels to its X1 channel guide. The new channels, including NBC News Now and 19 Xumo-branded channels, will be integrated into the X1 channel guide. To quickly access these channels within the guide, customers can say “free streaming channels” into their voice remote to be…
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Laff & Court TV Are Coming to Fubo, Plex, Xumo Play, Amazon Freevee & More For Free
Today E.W. Scripps Co. announced that they are bringing a free version of Laff and Court TV to free ad-supported streaming services. We first reported that Plex added these channels last week, but now they are live on more services, including Fubo, Xumo LG Channels, and Amazon Freevee. First up is Court TV Legendary Trials…
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Studios Are Reportedly Planning to Wait Out Strikers Hoping Money Problems Will Weaken Actors & Writers
Rumors are flying around the ongoing writers’ strike that started May 2nd and the latest rumblings aren’t putting the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in a flattering light. “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” said one anonymous studio executive…
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Diamondbacks Warn Viewers That Bally Sports Could Stop Airing Their Games This Week
Yesterday during the Arizona Diamondbacks game, play-by-play broadcaster Steve Berthiaume warned viewers that later this week, Bally Sports could lose TV rights to their games. What is interesting here is they made that announcement on Bally Sports during yesterday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, according to the AZcentral report. This comes as Bally Sports’…
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Fixed Wireless Home Internet is Becoming Even Faster As Cord Cutting 2.0 Comes For Comcast & Spectrum
Upload speeds hit a new record high with the use of Ericsson’s uplink Single User Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) and Uplink Carrier Aggregation alongside MediaTek’s T830 CPE tri-antenna platform. Combined, the technologies reached upload speeds of 565 Mbps during a demo using a 2.1 GHz Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) band with a 3.5 GHz…
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Free Streaming Services Like Pluto TV, Tubi, Freevee, & More Are Becoming More Popular Worldwide
Today, LG Ad Solutions announced the company is expanding into the Canadian marketplace and provided some stats on Canadian streaming preferences. In a study titled “The Big Shift: Wave II Canada”, over 750 connected Canadians were surveyed last June. As a global leader in connected TV and cross-screen advertising, LG Ad Solutions helps brands find…
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YouTube is Adding a New Feature to Make Watching Videos A Lot More Enjoyable
Have you ever been watching a video, and suddenly it goes from quiet to crazy load hurting your ears? Good news YouTube is testing a new “stable volume” feature that appears to help ensure the volume never gets to crazy load or too quiet. First spotted on Reddit and by M. Brandom Lee, this feature…
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Deal Alert! Fire TV Stick 4K Max Just $28.99! Refurbished
Want a great streaming player at a great price? Right now, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for just $28.99 refurbished. This is down from the $54.99 price you would pay if you bought it new. This comes with Amazon’s promises that the device is fully tested and can be returned if…
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Amazon’s Audible Names A New Chief Content Officer As It Looks to Expand
Amazon is shuffling operations at Audible by announcing Rachel Ghiazza as the new chief content officer. She will be working on Amazon’s new main objective for Audibles and managing the creation of new Audible originals. Ghiazza’s new role also includes overseeing all stages of audiobooks and podcast content from pitch to delivery as well as…
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Comet Announces Comet Fest Fan Festival Will Return With Sci-Fi Love
Earlier this month, the free SciFi network Comet held its first Comet Fest Fan Festival to great success, with over 3.5 million viewers watching. Now Comet has announced that it will return in 2023. This time instead of focusing on Star Trek it will focus on movies like Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Robocop. In…
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The NFL Network is Now Live on DIRECTV STREAM
Good news for NFL fans who have DIRECTV STREAM. Recently DIRECTV partnered with the National Football League renewing a multi-year affiliate agreement with NFL Media. The new agreement announced last month will extend existing coverage of NFL Networks on DIRECTV in addition to adding DIRECTV STREAM and U-Verse to NFL Network’s distribution, which already averages…
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Congress Prepares NASA to Head Back to The Moon
NASA is planning to head back to the moon by 2025 and Congress is ready to spend billions to help fund these missions. A proposal earlier this year requested $27.2 billion for NASA’s endeavors, granting NASA enough room to continue growing funding for the Artemis lunar exploration program, Mars Sample Return, Earth Science, technology research…
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For The First Time, Free OTA TV Will Be Delivered By 5G Thanks to FCC Approval
Recently WWOO-LD Boston has received permission to use 5G to offer free OTA TV from the FCC. This new 5G TV service will enable smartphones, tablets, and any devices, including TVs with a 5G chipset, to receive TV signals. Making free OTA TV more accessible on the go. “Recent developments in technology on both the…
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Top 5 Things to Watch on Paramount+ in July 2023
If you’re trying to beat the heat and want to stay entertained while you’re relaxing, enjoying movies and series on Paramount+ can help. There are thousands of titles that you can find on the service and the best part is that it starts at only 5.99 per month to get started. If you’re on the…
