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AT&T Needs to Regain the Trust of Cord Cutters for AT&T TV & HBO MAX to Be Successful
This week AT&T announced plans for HBO MAX, a new on-demand streaming service that will cost $14.99 a month. HBO MAX will include bundle deals with AT&T TV and offer content from HBO and a huge collection of WarnerMedia properties. The main issue AT&T has is not the line up or content HBO MAX will…
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Hulu’s New 14-Day Grid Guide For Live TV is Now Rolling Out on The Fire TV
Hulu has just started rolling out the new grid guide on Fire TV devices. Note that the new feature seems to be slowly rolling out which likely means Hulu is doing A/B testing of this new feature, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see the guide right now. You’ll get the update soon. Here…
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The Free News Service Haystack TV Has a New Channel Dedicated to California Wildfires Coverage
Yesterday, Haystack TV announced a new channel on the free news streaming service dedicated to covering stories on wildfires in California. The channel will include content from numerous local partners and provide updates more than a dozen (and counting) active wildfires currently raging through California neighborhoods, including the Getty and Tick fires. “Haystack TV viewers…
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Update: Sony TVs Are Not Getting The Apple TV App Right Now
Update: Sony reached out to Cord Cutters News to say the 9to5Mac post was incorrect. Sony said the Apple TV app is not available on Sony TVs at this time. 9to5Mac posted this update to their story “Update: Sony told us it was a mistake and they have no further news about the app launch for…
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Walmart is Reportedly Considering Selling Vudu
Today The Information reported that Walmart is looking into selling Vudu. According to reports, Walmart has concluded that in order to hold up against new competition, it would have to invest substantially in Vudu. As an alternative, Walmart is now reportedly thinking about selling instead of pouring money into Vudu. Vudu first launched back in…
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Spectrum & ACE Team Up to Crack Down on Password Sharing & Unauthorized Access to Content
Recently Spectrum announced partnerships with FOX and Disney to crack down on password sharing. Today Spectrum teamed up with The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) to crack down on unauthorized access to content through password sharing and inadequate encryption. ACE was created to help crack down on piracy and has lead several major lawsuits…
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AT&T Announces New Unlimited Wireless Plans Starting at $35 a Month With Free HBO MAX
Today AT&T announced new unlimited wireless plans starting at $35 a month when you signup for 4 lines. These new AT&T Wireless plans will take effect this Sunday and are called AT&T Unlimited Starter and AT&T Unlimited Extra. Later on, an AT&T Unlimited Elite plan will also be released for $50 a month with 4…
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Forget Halloween, Hallmark Channel has Four New Christmas Movies Starting October 31, 2019
Time to put away the Halloween candy and start decking the halls because Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is giving fans an early Christmas with four new movies premiering this week. These movies kick off the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Miracles of Christmas and 10th anniversary of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas programming…
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PlayStation Vue Could Lose The Hallmark Channel & Tastemade in November
Yesterday Sony announced it’s shutting down its live TV streaming service PlayStation Vue. The shutdown will happen on January 30th, 2019. Because of this decision, it is very unlikely that Sony will renew any deals that are coming up over the next few months. Sony recently posted a warning that Crown Media, the parent company…
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Hulu Hires Scott Donaton as The New Head of Creative
Today Hulu announced that they have a new Head of Creative with the hire of Scott Donaton. With this new role, Donaton will lead Hulu’s creative teams responsible for Hulu’s ad system. “Scott Donaton is a visionary whose experience bringing together creative and content practices, coupled with his background in media, makes him the ideal…
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Apple Announces Free Apple TV+ For Apple Music Student Subscribers
Apple has announced a bundle deal that gives Apple Music Student subscribers a free year of Apple TV+. Actress Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Emily Dickinson in the new Apple TV+ series Dickinson, shared the news on her Instagram story, saying “Apple is letting me share with you some very exciting news. For those of you…
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SiriusXM is Coming to Google Assistant With Three Months of Free SiriusXM
If you subscribe to SiriusXM you now have a new way to listen to your radio stations. Today SiriusXM and Google announced a partnership that will bring SiriusXM to Google Assistant. This means you will now be able to use your voice with Google Assistant to access your favorite SiriusXM content. Google says that later…
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Locast Now Offers Free TV in Seattle With Access to ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, & More
Today Locast announced that they are expanding free TV into the Seattle-Tacoma area. Locast is a live TV streaming service that launched back in January 2018 in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Recently, Locast has been rolling out to new markets including South Dakota. With…
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Is Cord Cutting Doomed? Will More Cord Cutting Services Shutdown? We Take a Look
Yesterday after months of rumors, Sony officially announced that PlayStation Vue would be shutting down. This has raised many questions about the future of cord cutting and if other streaming services will shut down as well. So let’s take a look at the prospect of cord cutting in a post-PlayStation Vue world. Is Cord Cutting…
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T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet For $50 a Month With No Data Cap
Back in March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home internet services launch. Now T-Mobile has launched a website to promote its $50 a month…
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