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Chase Credit Card Users Can Get a Discount on fuboTV & Vudu
Like other credit card companies, Chase has special offers for their customers, offering deals and discounts at stores, restaurants, and more. One Cord Cutters News reader noticed two new offers this month, from fuboTV and Vudu. Here are two that are currently available for some Chase customers: fuboTV: $15 back Earn $15 back when you…
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AT&T is Reportedly NOT Planning on Selling DIRECTV
Yesterday WSJ reported that AT&T planned to spinoff or sell DIRECTV’s satellite service. Now CNBC is reporting that AT&T is NOT looking to sell DIRECTV according to CNBC’s sources. This news comes as the investment group Elliott Management announced it now owns $3.2 billion of AT&T stock and that it’s pushing for AT&T to sell…
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PlayStation Vue May Soon Lose HBO & Cinemax
Today Sony warned PlayStation Vue subscribers that they soon may lose Cinemax and HBO. This news comes as Dish recently dropped HBO from both DISH and Sling TV packages. AT&T reportedly demanded a price hike and asked Dish to guarantee a minimum number of HBO subscribers. Dish pushed back saying they didn’t want to force…
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Spectrum, Altice, & Cable One Have an Internet Monopoly in Over Half of Their Markets
Over the last few years, we have seen a growing number of services try to launch high-speed Internet options to compete with traditional cable and DSL Internet. The hope has been to offer true competition for home Internet. Now according to a report from Grounded Reason, we get an idea of why more competition is…
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Pluto TV Adds This Old House & Roblox to Its Growing Library of Channels
Yesterday Pluto TV added 9 new channels. We already announced 7 of them as Pluto TV added VH1 Unscripted, VH1 Hip Hop Family, BET Her, BET Homecoming, VH1 Love & Hip Hop, VH1 Black Ink Crew, and VH1 RuPaul’s Drag Race. The two additional channels are This Old House and Roblox. Here is how Pluto…
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Roku’s New OS 9.2 Includes Faster Channel Loading, Improved Voice Commands, and More
Today, Roku announced that OS 9.2 will begin rolling out to Roku devices in the coming weeks. With this update, Roku users will be able to access content more quickly and will have new ways to control the home entertainment experience. Roku also announced new Roku Players today and you can learn more about them…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Americans Stream Over an Hour of Video Every Day According To a New Study
By 2021, the average person will spend 100 minutes per day watching online video according to a study from Zenith. Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report shows that viewers are currently watching 84 minutes per day. “The consumption of online video is growing rapidly, and the average person will spend half as much time viewing…
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Amazon is Reportedly Testing Automatic Commercial Skipping On The Fire TV Recast DVR
Next week Amazon is holding a big event to announce new hardware. Today though it seems Amazon may have started to test a new feature for their Fire TV Recast DVR according to reports from Cord Cutters News readers. Reports are beginning to come in that Amazon has updated some Fire TV Recast DVRs to…
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AT&T is Reportedly Considering Selling DIRECTV’s Satellite Service
UPDATE: CNBC is now disputing this story. You can read more here. Today The Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T is entertaining the possibility of selling its DIRECTV satellite service. According to the report, AT&T is “exploring parting ways with DIRECTV.” This comes a day after Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said that a merged DIRECTV…
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Why Do Ads Keep Repeating on My Streaming Service? (Guest Post)
By: Allen Klosowski, SVP, Advanced Solutions Group at SpotX If you stream TV over the internet, chances are you’ve experienced a time when the same ad plays over and over again. In the marketing world, there has been research to support that messages are more effective when repeated. So, there is a concerted effort to…
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AT&T & Dish Could Soon Drop NBC Sports Chicago on Sling TV & AT&T TV NOW
This week NBC Sports Chicago posted a warning that it could go dark on October 1, 2019 on Dish and AT&T. For cord cutters, this means you may soon lose NBC Sports Chicago if you use Dish, DIRECTV, AT&T TV NOW, Sling TV, U-verse, and more. A Dish spokesperson sent Cord Cutters News the following…
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Court TV is Launching a Second Free OTA TV Channel as Escape Rebrands
Today E.W Scripps Company announced that they will rebrand the free OTA TV network Escape to Court TV Mystery on Monday September 30th 2019. This new network will work with Court TV and offer top-rated crime series like The First 48, Forensic Files, American Greed, FBI Files, Crime Watch Daily, Unsolved Mysteries and more. “Court TV Mystery will…
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PlayStation Vue Adds a 24/7 ABC News Channel
Today PlayStation Vue quietly added a 24/7 ABC News channel to their lineup. Now PlayStation Vue subscribers can get ABC News when they want it no matter what time of the day it is. From the looks of it, this is the free ABC News feed you have been able to watch through The Roku…
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Plex Teams Up With Lionsgate For a New Free Streaming Service
Recently we learned that Plex and Warner Bros. has teamed up for a new ad-supported free streaming service. Now Plex has announced that they’ve partnered with Lionsgate to bring some of its content to Plex’s new free streaming service. “Lionsgate is one of the biggest names in the business and we know our millions of…
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Police Shutdown an Illegal IPTV Service With 50 Million Subscribers
Earlier today Police in Italy, the Netherlands, France, and Bulgaria raided multiple locations in an effort to shut down what they say is the back end of many illegal IPTV services. Xstream-codes.com is reportedly the company behind the software systems that run many IPTV services according to TorrentFreak. “A multi-country action day coordinated by Eurojust…
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