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Comcast, Spectrum, & AT&T May Need to Crack Down on Piracy After a $1 Billion Judgement Against Cox
This week, Cox was found liable for piracy infringement and will now pay $1 billion in damages to Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI. The lawsuit against Cox was filed in July 2018, alleging that Cox wasn’t stopping piracy on its network. As a result, there was piracy infringement on over…
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Pluto TV Now Has 247 Free Channels & Thousands of On-Demand Titles
Recently Pluto TV has been adding new channels bringing it’s total channel count to 247, all of them free. This is up from just over 200 Pluto TV channels back in September 2019. This comes as Viacom has recently been adding a growing amount of Viacom and non-Viacom content to Pluto TV. So what is…
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Cord Cutting Today #223 – Congress Bans Cable TV Fees, Apple Launching an Internet Service? & More
Today in CCT #223 we talk about: AT&T’s DIRECTV Could Lose Locals, Vidgo Launches, The Weather Channel, Netflix, IMDb, & More. Story #1 The 2019 Roku Ultra is On Sale for $69 (Arrives Before Christmas) https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-2019-roku-ultra-is-on-sale-for-69-arrives-before-christmas/ Story #2 Vidgo Launches a Live TV Streaming Service with 60 Channels at Just $39.99/Month for Cord Cutters https://cordcuttersnews.com/vidgo-launches-a-live-tv-streaming-service-with-60-channels-at-just-39-99-month-for-cord-cutters/…
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YouTube TV Wins The Bidding War For PlayStation Vue Subscribers as Sony Promotes The Service
Well, it looks like YouTube TV may have been the winner of the recent bidding war to get access to PlayStation Vue subscribers. Today Sony sent an email to PlayStation Vue subscribers encouraging them to switch to YouTube TV. Last week we learned that Sony had put uprights to get access to PlayStation Vue’s 500,000…
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Tubi Now Supports Voice Casting for Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max
Today, it was announced that the free streaming service Tubi is now available on Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. Those with the devices can now use voice commands to find and launch content on Tubi. This update comes just in time for the holidays. Tubi has a large selection of holiday movies available to…
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Peacock Will Include Live TV, Tiered Pricing
NBC’s Peacock streaming service will set itself apart from competitors by offering live video and tiered pricing structure including limited-advertising version that will cost about $5 per month and an advertising-free version that will cost about $10 per month, according to sources for CNBC. NBC is adding the live TV feature, as well as looking…
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LG Will Add ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV Tuners To Some 2020 Smart TVs
As we prepare for CES 2020, LG is being recognized for its innovation in technology with CES Innovation Awards. In the announcement about these awards, we also got a look at some of the updates LG is making to their products. One update stood out. We learned that LG will be incorporating the ATSC 3.0…
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beIN Sports Launches a Free OTA Sports Channel in 15 Markets
Today, beIN Sports announced in a press release that HC2 Broadcasting will carry beIN Sports Xtra. This will be the second 24/7 live sports channel to be available for free on over the air TV behind Stadium. beIN Sports Xtra will be available in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas – Fort Worth, Houston, San Jose…
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PlayStation Vue Finally Posts a Warning About The Shutdown In Its App
Back in October Sony announced that PlayStation Vue is shutting down on January 30th, 2020. This news came after it was reported that Sony had tried to find someone to buy the service earlier this year. Now Sony has finally posted a warning inside the PlayStation Vue app notifying customers that it will shut down…
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Locast Launches a Legal Defense Fund Asking for $500,000 to Fight ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC
Locast is a free streaming service offering access to local channels in a handful of markets. Recently, they got hit with a lawsuit from the major broadcasters trying to shut down the service. The networks filed the suit against Locast last July, claiming that the service was violating their copyright by retransmitting signals of their local…
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ViacomCBS Buys 49% of MIRAMAX For $375 Million
Today ViacomCBS announced that they have purchased 49% of MIRAMAX. This gives ViacomCBS joint ownership of MIRAMAX’s catalog of 700 titles, 278 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars® including four Best Picture awards for Chicago, Shakespeare In Love, The English Patient, and No Country For Old Men. beIN will retain a 51% stake in MIRAMAX and MIRAMAX’s current leadership team…
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Antennas Are More Popular Than Cable TV, Internet TV, and Satellite Combined
According to a Deloitte Insights report, antenna usage is on the rise and set to become the dominant means of watching TV in 2020. In fact, the analysts at Deloitte estimate that 1.6 billion people worldwide, including 450 million households, will watch at least some TV with an antenna. “Our estimate of 1.6 billion antenna…
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Netflix Has More of IMDb’s Top 250 Movies, More Than Disney+, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO
While many Netflix subscribers have been talking about the streaming service’s shrinking movie collection, Netflix tops the list of streaming services carrying films from IMDb’s Top 250 Movies list. Kill the Cable Bill looked at the libraries from several top streaming services and compared them to the IMDb list. Here’s what they found. Netflix had…
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Apple is Reportedly Working on Building a Internet Service
Today Bloomberg reported that Apple has a team of engineers working on building an internet service. According to the report, a dozen engineers from aerospace, satellite, and antenna design industries are working on the project to beam data from space down to Apple devices. Apple reportedly plans to start offering the service within five years.…
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AT&T Warns That DIRECTV Could Lose Local Channels After STELA Expires
Right now, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) is set to expire in just over a week. STELA gives satellite services like DISH and AT&T access to local channels among other things. Now AT&T has come out and publicly warned that if this rule expires DIRECTV would lose access to local channels. The…
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