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fuboTV Adds 14 More NBC & CBS Affiliates
Today the live TV streaming service fuboTV announced that they have added 14 new NBC and CBS affiliates across the United States. This brings the total number of local affiliates to 140 plus FOX network programming in 45 additional markets around the United States. This comes a week after fuboTV added 29 CBS & NBC affiliates last…
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Twitter & Gatorade Team Up to Stream High School Basketball
Twitter is continuing their dive into sports, and this time they are teaming up with Gatorade to bring you an early look at the next big basketball talents in the US. With this partnership Twitter will air #TheDebut, a first-of-its-kind live stream broadcast on Twitter, featuring eight high school basketball games highlighting great matchups that include…
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Amazon Prime Raises Their Monthly Price (Yearly Subscriptions Stay The Same)
If you subscribe to Amazon Prime through their monthly plan today may be the day to look at switching over to a yearly subscriptions. Starting today Amazon Prime members who pay monthly for the service will see their payments jump from $10.99 a month to 12.99 a month. ($155.88 a year) If you pay for an…
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Dish Officially Announces Legal Action against Two IPTV Services
A few weeks ago it was reported that Dish had filed two lawsuits targeting IPTV services. Yesterday, Dish formally announced the lawsuits and explained why they are taking these steps. The two IPTV services Dish targeted are Spider-TV and Tiger Star and, according to the complaint, Dish is suing them for broadcasting certain TV channels…
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Our Rebuttal to the Quartz Story “Streaming’s live-TV bundles aren’t actually saving cord-cutters money compared to cable”
Yesterday, Quartz published a story titled, “Streaming’s live-TV bundles aren’t actually saving cord-cutters money compared to cable.” As you may expect that didn’t seem to make sense to me, so I started to dig around to learn more. The short rundown of the story was it costs more to use live TV streaming services like…
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Disney & Twitch Team Up To Take on YouTube
You may know Twitch as the place to go and watch video games being played. Recently Twitch has expanded outside of video games into talk shows, vlogging, and more. Now they are teaming up with Disney Digital Network to help add support for pre-recorded videos on Twitch. Amazon the parent company behind Twitch has made…
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The Paramount Network Launches on Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, & Philo
If you are a fan of Spike TV we have bad news for you. Yesterday was the last day Spike TV will air in the United States. Today January 18th 2018 Spike TV will be rebranded as the Paramount Network as part of Viacom’s move to update their brand and to take advantage of their ownership…
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Report: Only 16% of Cord Cutters Share Passwords
Recently a new buzz has been hitting network executives that of password sharing as cable companies started to look for ways to block it. The fear has been that a growing number of Americans and cord cutters in particular are not paying for content but just using the passwords of family or friends. Cable companies…
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3.0 OTA TV is Coming to Dallas as Part of a Larger National Roll Out
This week the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media, and Univision Local Media announced a deal with wireless and broadcast infrastructure provider American Tower Corp. to work together to build a ATSC 3.0 broadcast system in Dallas, TX. According to the deal, this is the first step toward a national launch of 3.0 OTA TV in markets owned…
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TWiT Sues Twitter Over Twitter’s Streaming Service
If you had been a fan of the old Tech TV channel, you likely know Leo Laporte and his new TWiT channel that offers a long list of technology shows. Now Leo Laporte and is company TWiT are suing Twitter for breach of contract and copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit, Twitter’s cofounder Evan Williams…
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The House Introduces Four New Broadband Bills to Speed Up Rural Internet Deployment
This has been a busy week for rural broadband. So far the FCC has announced plans for $500 million in new spending on rural broadband, and now the House has announced four new bills to promote its development. The following are short synopses of the bills: Inventory of Assets for Communications Facilities Act of 2018: Sponsored…
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Locast, the FREE Local Streaming Service, Plans to Expand into New Markets
Locast is a new live TV streaming service that launched last week in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. The launch was timed to be ready for the big football weekend about to happen this week. Yesterday, Cord Cutters News had an opportunity to chat with some…
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Study: Most Americans Watch TV on a TV Not on Mobile Devices
For years now we have heard how a growing number of Americans are watching TV on their phones or tablets rather than on a TV. Now we get a look at a new study from TiVo that talked with over 8,000 people from around the world. (2,500 interviews completed in the US, 1,000 interviews each…
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Report: ABC is Bidding on NFL Thursday Night Football
Well, it looks like you may have a new option for NFL Thursday Night Football in 2018. According to a report from Sports Business Journal a source with a great track record, ABC is looking at returning to the NFL football with hopes of airing Thursday Night NFL games. This would be the first time…
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Twitter & Fox Sports Will Live Stream 2018 FIFA World Cup Coverage For FREE
Last week Twitter and FOX Sports announced plans to stream exclusive coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for free on Twitter. FOX Sports will produce a live-streamed show from Moscow’s Red Square each match day of the FIFA tournament. The show will be hosted by Rachel Bonnetta and featured guests will include FOX Sports’…
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