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HBO & Cinemax Are FREE This Weekend on Sling TV
Been thinking about giving HBO a try? Today may be your lucky day because all Sling TV subscribers have free access to HBO and all of the HBO On-Demand content! This deal is running through Monday, February 19th 2018. This is just in time to binge on: 2 Dope Queens – new episode 2/16 at 11:30 p.m. ET…
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Here is Everything New & Leaving Hulu in March 2018
Here is Everything New & Leaving Hulu in March 2018 Available March 1 Ask This Old House: Complete Seasons 11 -12 (PBS) This Old House: Complete Seasons 30 & 38 (PBS) Veni Vidi Vici: Complete Season 1 (Viaplay) 1984 (1985) A Feast at Midnight (1997) A Guy Thing (2003) A Mermaid’s Tale (2016) A Stork’s Journey (2017) A View to Kill (1985) All the Wild Horses (2017) Antitrust (2001)…
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CBS Has More Than 5 Million Streaming Subscribers
Yesterday CBS held their quarterly earnings call and gave some interesting details about the current state of live TV streaming. According to CBS, they currently have over 5 million live TV subscribers. That subscriber number includes subscribers to CBS All Access, DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, fuboTV, and other services like Comcast and Spectrum streaming…
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Update: DIRECTV NOW Is Giving Away Cinemax to Beta Testers
Are you a DIRECTV NOW beta tester? It looks like DIRECTV NOW has a little thank you just for those who are helping them beta test their new DVR and app. This was pointed out to us from a reader and we found multiple Reddit users talking about it also. Update: Well Murphy’s Law for reporters…
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CBS’s New Sports Streaming Service Will Launch This Month
Today CBS held their quarterly earnings call and gave some interesting details about their new sports streaming service. CBS is hoping to build off of the success of CBS News to launch new free ad-supported streaming services. Yesterday we got some more details from CBS CEO Leslie Moonves. “We’re not going to show games,” Moonves said,…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds More NBC Affiliates
This Week DIRECTV NOW quietly added the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis to their lineup. This marks the start of a new effort form DIRECTV NOW to add locals owned by smaller companies. WTHR is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group who owns two local affiliates including CBS WBNS-TV and the NBF WTHR. Hopefully, DIRECTV NOW…
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FOX Will Air The NFL Draft This Year
For the first time in a long time, the NFL draft will return to broadcast TV. This week it was announced that FOX and the NFL network have teamed up to bring the NFL Networks coverage to FOX affiliates around the United States. With this deal, FOX will air live coverage of the first 3…
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CBS Interactive Strikes Live Streaming Deal For College & High School Sports
This week CBS Interactive and Sidearm Sports struck a deal with more than 1,100 college and high school athletic websites to stream more than 14,000 live events every year. This deal will allow schools to offer their sports events online for fans around the world to watch. The events will be streamed on the SportsLive…
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The President Says He Will Spend a “Great Deal” on Rural Broadband
Over the last year the US government has been taking steps to make rural broadband a priority. Now the President, as part of a new spending plan announced on Monday, said the US government will invest an estimated $50 billion in rural internet infrastructure. “[T]he rural folks have been left out, including broadband Internet access,…
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Sling TV Is Keeping Costs Down By Skipping The Locals
Yesterday YouTube TV joined a growing list of live TV streaming services in raising their rates. Over the last year PlayStation Vue, fuboTV, and now YouTube TV have all raised their rates. So why the price hike? Well, in short, locals cost a lot of money and often the second year of having a local…
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US Court Orders TickBox to Remove Pirate Add-Ons from Sold Devices
In a major landmark court order a California federal court this week ordered the makers of TickBox TV to remove pirate Kodi add-ons from devices that have already been sold. This comes from a lawsuit filed by Amazon, Netflix, and several major Hollywood studios. The fight is over a so-called “Kodi Box,” which is one…
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Free HBO on DIRECTV NOW Is Ending Soon
Back in early March 2017, DIRECTV NOW announced that they were giving away free HBO to all DIRECTV NOW subscribers who had an active DIRECTV NOW account prior to March 6, 2017. AT&T said this was because they “want to thank you for being one of our most valuable customers and coming on this unprecedented…
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5 Free Trials I Think Every Cord Cutter Should Try
The best part of being a cord cutter is having a ton of services to pick from. What makes cord cutting even better is the ability to try most of them for FREE. Unlike with cable TV, cord cutting gives you the opportunity to test out a service before you have to pay for it.…
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fuboTV Adds 6 New NBC & CBS Affiliates
Today fuboTV Announced that they have added 7 new NBC and CBS affiliates across the United States. This brings the total number of local affiliates offered by fuboTV to 193. With the addition of these new markets fuboTV now has: FOX coverage in 75% of U.S. households, including 20 of the top 20 markets and 45 of the top…
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Netflix Strikes a Deal With Ryan Murphy
Well it looks like Fox and Disney just lost out to Netflix in an effort to hire Ryan Murphy. Today it was learned that Netflix had struck a deal with the Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning producer, director, and writer Ryan Murphy. “Ryan Murphy’s series have influenced the global cultural zeitgeist, reinvented genres and changed…
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