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The FCC Wants Phone Providers to Block Robocalls Before Your Phone Even Rings
Today the FCC Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed a rule change that would allow phone providers to block robocalls before your phone even rings. This comes as the FCC recently has been targeting robocalls with new rules and systems to block them. “Allowing call blocking by default could be a big benefit for consumers who…
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DIRECTV NOW Jumps Into VR With Magic Leap One
Today AT&T announced that it has brought DIRECTV NOW to the VR headset Magic Leap One. These VR headsets cost $2,295. Don’t own a Magic Leap One? AT&T has announced that they will be offering free demos of the Magic Leap One VR headset at select AT&T stores. “Without the limits of traditional screens, Magic…
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Amazon Prime Members Can Get a 30-Days Free Trial of Crunchyroll
Do you have Amazon Prime? With that subscription, you can now get a 30-day free trial of the anime service Crunchyroll. To get this deal you need to link your Amazon Prime account to a free Twitch account. From there you can claim a Twitch loot case for 30-days free of Crunchyroll. (Twitch Prime is free…
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Only 10% of Cord Cutters Say They Have App Fatigue
Recently the argument form cable TV against cord cutting was the idea that cord cutters have too many services. Some cable executives have even pushed the idea that cord cutters will come running back to cable TV because of too many streaming services. Now the research group TDG has studied the issue of too many…
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PlayStation Vue Just Added 15 New Locals Today
Today at the Pay-TV show PlayStation Vue’s CEO announced that Sony’s live TV streaming service has added 15 streaming services. Sony has recently over the last few months been adding new locals almost every month. We are not sure where these locals are as Sony has not updated their website. Did you wake up to…
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35-40% of Sling TV, Hulu, DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation Vue, Etc Subscribers Also Pay for Cable TV
Today at the Pay-TV show the research group TDG reported that 35-40% of live TV subscribers say they also pay for traditional cable TV services. This means that as many as 40% of all of Sling TVs, DIRECTV NOWs, and PlayStation Vue’s subscribers also pay for cable TV. TDG also reported that 8.4 million Americans…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Now Has 34 Million Active Users
Today at the Pay-TV Show Jen Prenner, GM and Global Head of Marketing, Growth & Engagement for the Amazon Fire TV announced that the Amazon Fire TV now has more than 34 million active accounts. This is up from 30 million active users that were announced back in January 2019. This comes after Roku announced…
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ATSC 3.0 Next Gen OTA TV is Launching in Detroit
This morning in Detroit WMYD, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, announced plans to launch ATSC 3.0 OTA TV. Also participating in the Detroit Next-Gen TV launch will be NBC affiliate WDIV-TV, owned by Graham Media Group. Sadly no date for the launch was announced. “Scripps is a strong supporter of the development of ATSC…
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Roku Adds Free Shows from Global TV in Canada
Yesterday, Roku announced that they have added Global TV giving Canadian cord cutters access to free Global TV content. According to Roku, full episodes of Global series are available for free on Roku streaming devices for the first seven days after they air on television. This sounds similar to how services like ABC and NBC…
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Sling TV’s President Thinks Live TV Streaming Will See Explosive Growth Over The Next Three to Five Years
Yesterday at the Pay-TV Show in Denver, Sling TV’s President, Warren Schlichting, talked about the current state of TV. Schlichting said he expects live TV streaming services like Sling TV to jump from 7 million subscribers to 25 million subscribers over the next three to five years. This would be a massive but very reasonable…
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DIRECTV NOW is Once Again Offering $10 Off For Six Months
Did you recently leave DIRECTV NOW? AT&T wants you back and is once again offering former customers $10 off a month for 6 months if you come back. The best part is you can even get your old grandfathered DIRECTV NOW package back. This offer is only for former customers, and you need to check…
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Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, & Amazon Dominate 78.8% of All Streaming
Today at the Pay-TV show Comscore Gave a look at the current state of streaming in the United States. According to Comscore Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Amazon accounted for 78.8% of all streaming in the United States. All other streaming in the United States accounted for just over 21% of all streaming. According to Comscore…
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DECADES TV Network Will Air “The Mod Squad” Marathon in Memory of Peggy Lipton
DECADES TV Network will be honoring the life and career of actress Peggy Lipton, who passed away on May 11, 2019, with a marathon of one of her most well-known shows “The Mod Squad.” The 42 back to back episode marathon will air Saturday, May 18 at 1:00 PM through Monday, May 20 at 7:00…
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AT&T Plans to Pull WarnerMedia Content From Places like Netflix, Amazon, & Hulu
Today AT&T announced plans to pull back content currently licensed to places like Netflix in preparation for its new streaming service. This likely means popular shows will be leaving Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu as AT&T gets ready to launch a new streaming service. “We are going to have to take a lot of the great…
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About Half of All Philo Subscribers Pay for Its $20 Package
Recently Philo stopped offering its $16 a month package in favor of just offering its $20 package. During a talk at the Pay-TV Show in Denver Philo’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Keyserling opened up about the change. According to Mike Keyserling before Philo decided to stop offering its $16 a month package about half of…
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