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FOX Adds Viral Comedy Hit ‘Kill Tony’ to Its Streaming Platforms, Deepening Its Podcast Push
FOX is making another move to turn its streaming platforms into more than just a place for live sports and news. Red Seat Ventures announced a multiyear partnership with Kill Tony, saying the show will be distributed across FOX’s streaming services, including Tubi and FOX One, along with YouTube and other third-party platforms. Hosted by
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55 Years Ago Today: Green Acres Came to an End on CBS
55 years ago today, on April 27, 1971, the final episode of the CBS sitcom Green Acres aired, bringing to a close one of the most distinctive rural comedies of the 1960s. The half-hour installment, which served more as an unrelated backdoor pilot than a traditional series wrap-up, marked the unceremonious end of a show
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Apple Opens Up Beta 4 Testing Ahead of the 26.5 Update
Apple is one step closer to its 26.5 software updates, with the release of the fourth beta releases for iPadOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5. 9to5 Mac reports that the beta 4 versions are now available to developers, with public beta releases expected this week. The focus of the update will be
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What’s New This Week on Netflix For The Week of April 27, 2026
April showers bring May titles. As we cross from month four to five, Netflix has fresh content ready to roll across your screen. Here’s everything you can watch as we enter the final week of April and the first of May. April 27 • Straight to Hell (Season 1) (Netflix Original) • Supernova: Genesis (LIVE)
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Peacock Adds Super Bowl–Winning Head Coach in Major NBC Sports NFL Shakeup
Another former NFL coach is heading to Peacock as NBC retools its Sunday Night Football coverage. NBC Sports is adding former Pittsburgh Steelers coaching legend Mike Tomlin to Football Night in America as a pregame analyst. The former signal caller spent 19 seasons in Pittsburgh, winning Super Bowl XLIII, and never finished a season below
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Philo is Changing Up Its Leadership Team
Philo, the San Francisco-based live TV streaming service, announced today a leadership change to strengthen its financial strategy and operational framework amid ongoing expansion in the competitive live television streaming sector. The company named Tom Tidgwell as its new chief financial officer and promoted internal executive Laura Dechant to the role of chief operating officer.
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Oprah Partners with Amazon for Her Podcast, TV Show & Book Club
Amazon and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Entertainment have signed a deal to bring The Oprah Podcast on audio and video to Amazon’s Wondery. Beginning in July, the podcast will air two new episodes per week. Wondery will bring The Oprah Podcast to Amazon platforms including Prime Video, Amazon Music, Fire TV Channels, and Audible. The podcast will also
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Cord Cutting Today: Cable TV’s Decline Deepens as YouTube TV Surges and Spectrum Keeps Losing Subscribers
Today in Cord Cutting Today for April 27, 2026, we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting including: The End of Cable TV. You can find links to each story we talk about below this video. Please subscribe to our new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CordCuttersNewsClips Spectrum is Once
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5G Home Internet Is About to Get Supercharged into 6G Internet, Helping Bring True Competition to Cable Internet
Samsung is working on new ideas for 6G wireless networks that could make high-speed home internet more widely available and reliable. The company sees fixed wireless access, or FWA, as one of the most important uses for the next-generation technology. FWA delivers broadband to homes and offices using radio waves instead of underground fiber cables.
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What’s New This Week on Disney+ and Hulu For The Week of April 27, 2026
This week combines not only April and May, but Hulu and Disney+. Intertwined more than ever, here is everything you can watch from the two streamers in the following week. April 27 • American Idol (Season 9) (ABC) – Streaming live at 8/7c • Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord (Disney+ Original) – New Episodes
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The NFL Meets with the FCC as It Launches an Investigation into Its TV Deals
The National Football League has taken a proactive step in Washington by sitting down with senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission to defend its approach to distributing games across traditional television and streaming platforms, according to The Wall Street Journal. The meeting, which the league initiated, occurred earlier this month and signals the NFL’s
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Verizon Added 341,000 Fiber Internet Customers As Comcast & Spectrum Both Lost Internet Customers
Verizon Communications reported strong growth in its broadband business during the first quarter of 2026, adding 341,000 internet customers as major cable providers continued to shed subscribers in a shifting telecommunications landscape. The gains marked a notable divergence in the industry, with traditional cable operators like Comcast and Spectrum losing subscribers amid ongoing pressure from
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Spectrum Wants to Keep Buying Up Other Cable TV Companies
Spectrum, the consumer brand of Charter Communications, continues to pursue an aggressive strategy of growth through mergers and acquisitions in the cable television sector, positioning itself as a leading consolidator amid intensifying competition from streaming services, fiber providers, and wireless alternatives. During its first-quarter 2026 earnings call last week Friday, company leadership highlighted a clear
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Blackouts of Local ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Stations Becoming More Common & It’s Likely Coming To Your TV Service Soon
Blackouts of local television stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC have become an increasingly familiar disruption for millions of American households. What was once an occasional inconvenience tied to short-term contract expirations has evolved into a pattern of prolonged outages that stretch for weeks or even months. The latest examples illustrate the trend
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Watch Every 2026 WNBA Preseason Game for Free With No Subscription Required
The WNBA is expanding access to its preseason once again, announcing that all 18 games in the 2026 slate will be available to stream for free, continuing a strategy aimed at bringing more fans into the league at a time of rising interest. The full preseason schedule runs from April 25 through May 3, with
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