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Comcast Lost Over 389,000 TV Customers & Lost 34,000 Internet Customers in Q4 2023 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up
Cord cutting is continuing to hit Comcast hard as the company has recently lost both TV and internet customers. In Comcast’s 4th quarter earnings report released this morning, the company reported it lost 389,000 video customer losses. That works out to over 4,200 Subscribers Every Day. The company lost 34,000 broadband customers for the quarter,…
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Paramount Reportedly Has a New Suitor That’s Not Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount Global and its parent company, National Amusements, has a new suitor. Skydance Media CEO David Ellison has made a preliminary bid to buy National Amusements, which owns a controlling stake in the media company, according to Bloomberg. Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is also in talks with merging Skydance Media…
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DIRECTV STREAM Adds Two New The CW Affiliates
DIRECTV on Wednesday said it added two new The CW affiliates to its live-TV streaming service. WSAV-CW, the affiliate in Savannah, Georgia, and WCBD-CW, the affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, went live on DIRECTV Stream on Tuesday. DIRECTV has been steadily working to bring more The CW affiliates to DIRECTV STREAM in an effort to…
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Sling TV Freestream Adds 15 New Free Channels This Week
Sling TV’s free, ad-supported streaming service Freestream added more than a dozen new channels as it continues to ramp up its library of content. The 15 new channels include several Vevo channels dedicated to different genres of music, as well as one focused independent films. The addition comes on top of four channels added at…
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Sinclair Confirms Sale of Free Live Streaming Site STIRR to Startup
Broadcasting giant Sinclair on Wednesday officially closed the sale of its free, ad-supported streaming site STIRR, which Cord Cutters News first broke earlier this week. Startup Thinking Media acquired the streaming service. The company bills itself as a “pioneer in cloud solutions for streaming services,” with a focus on working with ad-supported content. It appears…
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Netflix Will Debut All Six Seasons of Sex and the City
Netflix has secured another hit HBO series. All six seasons of Sex and the City will debut on the streamer in early April. The platform signed a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to license all six seasons of the HBO dramedy, which totals 94 episodes, according to The New York Times and other reports. The…
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How to Watch PGA Tour: Farmers Insurance Open 2024 Live on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
The PGA Tour heads to Torrey Pines in Southern California for the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open. The only PGA Tour event to tee off on a Wednesday will feature some of the best players in the world competing for the $1.62 million winner’s share of the $9 million purse. 2023 champion and California’s own Max…
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Verizon Wireless Bundles Netflix Premium and STARZ Together In Discounted Package
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday unveiled a new bundle that packages Netflix’s premium plan with STARZ for a discounted price. The bundle costs $25.99 a month. Normally, Netflix premium itself costs $22.99 and STARZ costs $9.99, giving you savings of $7. It’s the latest offer from Verizon, which is increasingly rolling out discounted bundles and other…
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Netflix Quietly Raises Its Prices in Singapore. Will U.S. See an Increase Next?
Netflix users in Singapore have started paying more for the streaming service, raising the specter of price increases getting rolled out elsewhere. According to an email from a Cord Cutters News reader, users in the country will now pay 13.98 Singapore dollars (SGD) a month for Netflix’s basic tier — a 1 SGD increase from…
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Jon Stewart Returns as Host of The Daily Show Just as the Presidential Election Heats Up
Jon Stewart will return to host The Daily Show starting February 12 on a very part-time basis. He will serve as host on Monday nights through the 2024 election season. Stewart returns as the election cycle kicks off following the New Hampshire primary and ahead of Super Tuesday’s multi-state primaries. He’ll host Monday nights, while…
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AT&T Adds 67,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Offsetting Massive DSL Losses
AT&T’s 5G home internet service, called Internet Air, racked up 67,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter and helped mask the mass defection of DSL customers. The Dallas telecommunications giant reported fourth-quarter results that also saw the addition of 273,000 fiber customers. But its overall broadband growth was only 19,000, indicating that the company lost…
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Vidgo Stops Billing Customers But Lets Them Still Use Their Logins to Watch ESPN, FS1, and More For Free
Vidgo, a live TV streaming service offering ESPN, FS1, and more, has been down for over three months now, raising questions about whether it will shut down completely. Cord Cutters News confirmed with Vidgo that the outage is caused by a vendor dispute but that it is still trying to restore its live TV service.…
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Local Now Adds Three New Free Channels This Week
Earlier this week, the free ad-supported streaming platform Local Now added three new channels to its service. Local Now streams a large collection of free live and on-demand content. This news comes as Local Now added other channels in the last few weeks. Recently, Local Now topped 500 free live TV channels, making it one…
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Amazon’s Freevee Adds a New Free Live Channel With Family Friendly Programing
Do you stream free movies and TV shows from Amazon’s Freevee service? Amazon has added the new family-friendly TV channel Pure Flix TV. This comes as Freevee announced two other new live channels coming in January 2024. Freevee is owned by Amazon and offers over 400 live TV channels and thousands of movies and TV…
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Barstool Sports Moves To Rumble After Yanking Show From YouTube
Entertainment brand Barstool Sports has chosen conservative video platform Rumble as its new home. Through the new “wide-ranging partnership”, viewers can access all of Barstool Sports’ content and live streams through Rumble. “I’m excited about Rumble’s commitment to sports and broadening audiences,” Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said in a statement. “With the power of…
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