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How To Watch The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
This Saturday, May 19th 2018 The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will air live starting at 9 am Eastern. The good news is the streaming it will be easy as almost every local will have the event and many cable networks like BBC America and news networks like CNN will also have…
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In Time For The World Cup fuboTV Adds 8 New FOX, NBC, and Telemundo Affiliates
In June the 2018 World Cup gets underway and fuboTV is adding more locals to make sure their customers have full access. Here is a break down of fuboTV’s national local coverage: FOX coverage in 91% of U.S. households, including 50 of the top 50 and 136 markets total. NBC coverage in 74% of U.S. households, including 19 of…
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YouTube is Rolling Out YouTube Premium to Replace YouTube Red
Today YouTube announced they are replacing YouTube Red with YouTube Premium. This makes way for a new YouTube Music Premium service separate from YouTube Premium. Here is how it breaks down: The new YouTube Premium includes: The new YouTube Music: ad-free, with background listening and downloads More, bigger original series and movies Ad-free, background play,…
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PlayStation Vue Cuts Their Free Trial Back to 5 Days
Sadly if you missed out on the 14-day PlayStation Vue free trial you may be out of luck. About a week ago PlayStation Vue increased their free trial from 5 to 14 days. Now it looks like Sony has changed their free trial back to 5 days. To fight against growing competition PlayStation Vue recently…
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Sling TV’s President Says The Cost of Locals Will Likely Be $15 a Month Next Year
Yesterday at the Denver Pay TV Show, Sling TV’s President Warren talked about the future of over-the-air TV. One of the points he hammered home was the high cost of locals and the advantages of an antenna. Warren said the cost of locals on your traditional pay-TV service next year will likely be $15 a…
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Babylon 5 is Coming to Amazon Prime in June
Fans of Babylon 5 have for years hoped for their favorite show to end up on a subscription streaming service. After a short stay on go90, it looks like Babylon 5 fans have good news. Today on Twitter the creator of Babylon 5 announced that all 5 seasons of the show will be coming to Amazon…
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Plex Rolls Out a New Nvidia Shield Update Adding SD & USB Storage
PLEX today updated their app on the Nvidia SHIELD with the ability to migrate SHIELD server data to external storage. This allows 16GB SHIELD owners the ability to serve large PLEX libraries without having to use local storage. This allows you to have more storage options for your DVR with Plex or your local media. Making Plex on…
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The US Senate Just Voted to Restore Net Neutrality
Today the United States Senate voted to restore the FCC Net Neutrality rules through the CRA rules. Through the Congressional Review Act the Senate can force the FCC to reverse their ruling on the net neutrality rules, and only 51 votes will be needed to restore the FCC rules. The vote just barely passed with 52 senators voting…
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Tubi’s CCO Sees An Ad-Supported Future For Streaming
Recently Cord Cutters News had the opportunity to sit down with Adam Lewinson, the Chief Content Officer for Tubi. Tubi is a free streaming service that gives viewers access to the largest library of movies and TV shows compared to any other free streaming service. During our talk, Adam opened up about his thoughts on…
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Sling TV Adds REVOLT and Cinemoi to Their Lineup
Today Sling TV announced that they have added two new networks to their lineup with the addition of REVOLT and Cinemoi. “At Sling TV, we’re always looking to add new and unique content to our service, and now, Slingers everywhere have access to more music and movie channels with today’s launch of REVOLT and Cinémoi.”…
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Hulu Is Rolling Out Picture in Picture, Stop Suggesting, & Other New Features
Today at the Denver Pay TV Show, Hulu’s VP of Product Richard Irving made several announcements including Picture in Picture, Stop Suggesting, Remove, and out of home network. Here are some highlights of what was announced: Stop Suggesting & Remove Hulu announced that they have added “Stop Suggesting” programming and “Remove” from Watch History. With…
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PlayStation Vue Has 670,000 Subscribers Far Behind Sling TV and DIRECTV NOW
Today at the Pay TV show in Denver Joel Espelien a Senior Analyst at TDG gave a detailed report on the state of the TV industry with a heavy focus on streaming services. During the talk, we got an updated look at live TV streaming services One of the most interesting things was a report…
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DIRECTV NOW is Looking For New Roku Beta Testers
A couple of weeks ago AT&T stopped sending out invites to test the DIRECTV NOW app beta on Roku players. Now it looks like DIRECTV NOW is once again looking for more Roku Beta testers and are mass emailing DIRECTV NOW subscribers asking you to test out the Roku beta. If you do not have…
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Comcast is Charging a $90 Installation Fee Even When No Installation is Needed
Well, it looks like Comcast has a new way to make money. Charge as much as $90 in installation fee even if they don’t have to do anything. Recently ArsTechnica did some research oComcast’sts installation fee and found that it varies wildly but if your area has a $60 or $90 installation fee you have to…
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Amazon Confirms Thursday Night NFL Football Will Stream For Free on Twitch
Yesterday at the Pay TV Show in Denver, Cord Cutters News was able to interview Rich Au the director of Amazon Channels and one of the leads on Amazon’s sports deals. We had the opportunity to chat about some of the questions we hear from our readers. One of the main things we talked about…
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