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Bally Sports May Soon Lose 5 More MLB Teams TV Rights Starting Tomorrow
Recently Bally Sports’ parent company Diamond Sports, let the deadline to pay the Padres pass and decided to return the media rights back to the MLB. Now it looks like as many as five more teams may also get their TV rights back as Bally Sports considers not making payments to four teams. This comes…
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Everything We Know About Amazon’s New Home Internet Service, Including Price & Launch Date
The deadline for Amazon to have an operational home internet service is coming up fast. Well, it may be a few years away there is a lot to do to meet the FCC deadline or risk losing the spectrum it needs. This new home internet service from Amazon is currently code-named Project Kuiper. According to…
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Comcast Executives Get $130 Million in Pay Every Year
Recently Comcast held a vote to decide on a pay packing increase for top executives, one of whom is CEO Brian Roberts. The motion was approved with 343 million votes to proceed with the pay hike while 30 million voted against it. Prior to the vote, Meredith Steihm President of WGA West sent a letter…
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Stephen Colbert Extends His Contract to Host The Late Show
Late night TV has been in turmoil recently as the writer’s strike has forced most shows to shut down, and The Late Late Show is coming to an end. Now in some good news for CBS, Stephen Colbert has agreed to extend his contract to host The Late Show for three more years, according to…
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YouTube Premium Is Offering a 3 Month Free Trial
Have you ever wished you could watch YouTube ad-free and download your videos for when you are offline? Right now, YouTube is offering three months of YouTube Premium with ad-free YouTube and offline downloads free for three months. This may be a good time to get YouTube Premium as Google has started to crack down…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Viewership Numbers Show Strong Yearly Growth
Amazon Prime Video recently announced the company will be adding an ad-supported tier. Insider Intelligence has released some statistics on Amazon Prime Video viewership and compared that with time spent watching content. “Amazon introducing ads into Prime Video is just the latest step in their increasing embrace of streaming advertising. The Fire TV interface makes…
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Deal Alert! My Favorite Anker Magsafe Battery Pack & Stand For iPhones is At Its Lowest Price
Do you love your iPhone but hate running out of power? Right now, the Anker 622 magnetic Magsafe battery pack is on sale for just $39.99, down from $69.99. This battery pack also comes with a built-in stand so you can use it to watch your movies and shows with your phone. This is the…
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The Cost of Streaming Services May Go Up As TV Ad Revenue Are Tanking & Predicted to Continue To Fall Amidst Writers Strike
GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company and has released some discouraging reports for television ad revenue predictions. Amidst a struggling economy and an entertainment industry nearly halted until the writers’ strike comes to an end, the group forecasts 2023 isn’t shaping up to be a profitable year for TV ad revenue streams, especially…
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Pluto TV Has a New & Improved App Coming Next Month
Today during the Stream TV Show, Amy Kuessner, who is Executive Vice President, Content Strategy & Global Partnerships at Paramount Streaming opened up about Paramount’s streaming plans in the world of cord cutting. During the panel on the Future of Content Partnerships, when talking about Pluto TV’s future said that a new Pluto TV user…
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Amazon Wants to Make The Fire TV Home Screen More Personalized
Today at the Stream TV Show in Denver, Cord Cutters News had an opportunity to chat with Charlotte Maines the Director of Advertising, Monetization, and Engagement, Amazon Fire TV. She has been on the Fire TV team since it first launched back in 2014 and now helps oversee all aspects of the Fire TV. During our…
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Cable TV Turns 75 Years Old This Month… How More Years Does it Have Left?
In June of 1948, John Walson set up an antenna on top of the New Boston Mountain in Mahanoy City, PA. There he ran a cable down to the town so it could get TV signals that had been blocked by the mountain in the past. From there, he connected homes in the town and…
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Netflix Reportedly Wants to Get Into Live Sports Streaming
Netflix is reportedly planning to join the growing number of services that want to get into live sports streaming. If this happens, they would join Paramount+, Peacock, and Max which plan to grow their sports subscriptions. According to The Wall Street Journal, Netflix is working on live streaming a celebrity golf event. This will be…
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Comcast Will Integrate Its Free Xumo Play Service Into Its Xfinity Cable TV Guide As It Copies Fubo, Philo, & More
Today at the Stream TV Show, Xumo Play’s CEO Colin Petrie-Norris announced that this summer, Comcast’s owned free ad-supported streaming service Xumo Play will be integrated into Comcast’s Xfinity Cable TV guide. This comes as Comcast gets ready to rebrand its streaming players to the Xumo Play brand. This marks a first as cable TV…
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Walmart’s New Drone Home Deliveries Are Expanding to New Areas As It Moves Ahead of Amazon
Things are going well for Walmart’s eCommerce division. Walmart recently announced that its online sales had increased by 27 percent in the first quarter of 2023, while total revenue grew 7.6 percent year over year in the United States. Total sales tallied in at $152.3 billion. International sales also saw significant increases, reported to have…
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Deal Alert! Amazon’s New Ring Doorbell Drops To Its Lowest Price Ever
Are you watching a show on your Fire TV, and the doorbell rings? Wondering if you need to get up or not? Now you can see who is there with the new Amazon Ring Doorbell with head to foot camera that makes it easy to see packages and people at your door. So you can…
