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Amazon’s Freevee service is Getting a New Original Series
Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service Freevee is getting a new original show called “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh.” The show is an eight-episode series inspired by the life of its showrunner Vijal Patel. According to Amazon, the show follows the Pradeep family and their first few months after moving to America from India. Full of humorous events,…
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Deal Alert! Amazon’s Fire TV Edition Smart TVs Are on Sale Starting at Just $79.99
Looking for a cheap TV want to use a Fire TV with it? Right now, you can buy an Insignia smart TV with a Fire TV built into it. The best part is they start at just $79.99 for a 24″ and $159.99 for a 39″ TV. You can find these TVs on Amazon HERE.…
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Google Plans to Lay Off 12,000 Staff
January 2023 has been a busy year for layoffs with Amazon, DIRECTV, Microsoft, and now Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is laying off staff. In an email sent to staff today, CEO Sundar Pichai laid out the reasons for the staff cuts. “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and…
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Comcast Plans to Rollout Blazing Fast 10 Gigabit Internet in 2023
Need even more internet speed? Comcast hears you and is testing a 10-gigabit internet package. This comes as Comcast has successfully tested its new DOCSIS 4.0 internet that will offer symmetrical gigabit internet giving customers as much upload speed as download speeds. Comcast hopes to start selling internet packages with 10G download and 6G upload…
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Apple TV+ Is Down For Many Users
If you are struggling to use the Apple TV app, you are not alone. Reports are coming in that the Apple TV+ app is down. Update Apple has confirmed an issue and currently has the Apple TV Channel, and Apple TV+ are listed as having issues. At this time, on multiple types of devices, users…
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Pluto TV Adds 3 New FREE Channels Including a 24/7 BBC Top Gear
Pluto TV is bringing even more free content to its service with the addition of three new channels. Here is all the contact Pluto TV added today: BBC Top Gear From sliding around racetracks in shiny supercars to buying an old banger for an ill-fated road trip with your mates, Top Gear celebrates everything that’s…
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Netflix Plans to Offer Paid Password Sharing as It Tries to Stop Freeloaders
Today Netflix reported its 4th quarter 2022 numbers. We also learned a lot about the company’s future plans, including that Netflix’s founder and CEO is stepping down as CEO. We also learned that Netflix plans to expand its paid password-sharing subscription service to more people. “While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to…
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YouTube TV is Rolling Out a Fix to Its Apple TV App
Yesterday YouTube TV rolled out an update to the library and live guide. These improvements sadly come with some issues for Apple TV users. According to multiple reports and confirmed by YouTube TV on Twitter, the live TV guide on the Apple TV is broken. Update: YouTube TV reached out to Cord Cutters News on…
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Netflix’s Founder & CEO Reed Hastings is Stepping Down
Today it was announced that Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix, is stepping as CEO and will become the Executive Chairman at Netflix. This news came as Netflix announced its 4th quarter 2022 earnings. Netflixed missed on earnings but got more new subscribers than expected. In Reed Hastings’s place, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters will…
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AT&T Must Pay $166 Million in Damages For Infringing Mobile Patents Jury Rules
According to a ruling from earlier this week, AT&T Mobility LLC must pay $166.3 million in damages for violating Finesse Wireless LLC’s patents. This affects but AT&T’s LTE and 5G networks that ran on Nokia’s stations. At issue here, are how AT&T’s networks reduced wireless-signal interference using technology owned by Finesse, according to a report…
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DIRECTV STREAM is Offering $120 Off Your First Year For New Customers
Been thinking about trying out DIRECTV STREAM? Right now, if you sign up, DIRECTV NOW will give you $120 off your first year of service from them. This deal is offered as $10 off a month for one year on select plans, including ENTERTAINMENT, CHOICE, ULTIMATE, PREMIER, or OPTIMO MÁS. To take advantage of this…
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A New Study From Roku & Magna Show Ads on Streaming Are Better Than Cable TV
Today Roku and MAGNAls industry-leading research released a report showing that ads on streaming are more effective than traditional TV ads. This report called “Beyond the :30” tested multiple formats and showed that streaming helped brands grow their top-of-mind awareness by 57% vs. just 43% with traditional cable TV ads. Three new “Beyond the :30”…
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DISH is offering $25 a Month for Life Unlimited Talk, Text, & Data Plan from Boost Mobile
Earlier on in 2022, DISH announced plans to offer a $ 25-a-month wireless phone plan with unlimited talk, text, and data from its Boost Mobile service. Now DISH has started to roll out the plan called Boost Infinite. With Boost Infinite, you will get unlimited talk, text, and 30GB of data before your speeds slow…
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Amazon Secures $8 Billion Loan to Help Cover Costs
Recently it was announced that Amazon would be laying off 17,000 employees in 2023. (Link to story.) Now Amazon has agreed to an $8 billion term loan to “help support capital expenditures, debt repayments, acquisitions, and working capital needs,” Amazon said in a statement to Reuters. This move comes as a growing number of companies…
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Cord Cutting’s Growth Spikes as 3,786 Households Cancel Cable TV Every Day In The 3rd Quarter of 2022
Right now is a bad time to own a traditional TV company. According to MoffettNathanson, pay TV distributors like Comcast and Charter lost 655,000 pay-TV customers in just three months. This works out to be about 3,786 households canceling cable TV every day. This is up from just 93,000 households canceling cable TV during the…
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