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FuboTV & NBC Team Up For The 2018 Winter Olympics
Today fuboTV and NBCUniversal announced a new deal to stream over 2,400 hours of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Subscribers to the fuboTV will have access to NBCUniversal’s 2,400 hours of Olympic programming, including coverage of all competition events live and on-demand. fuboTV has also today launched a new feature, updating its Sports…
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Hoopla Digital Updates Their Roku Channel Adding The Ability to Browsing Their Catalog
In December hoopla digital launched an app on Roku Players and Roku TVs. In the first version, you could only see movies and TV shows you had already borrowed. Now they have updated their app to let users browse for movies and TV shows to view. This means you no longer have to add a show to your library…
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Sling TV Saw Strong Year Over Year Growth During the Super Bowl
The 2018 Super Bowl was a big moment in the world of cord cutting. Overall the game streamed smoothly for most cord cutters. Many live TV streaming services stayed up and streamed the game without issues including Sling TV, fuboTV, and DIRECTV NOW. We are starting to get some detailed statistics about how big the…
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My Ultimate Cord Cutting Setup – Devices I Personally Use
I am often asked what my personal at home cord cutting setup is, so I decided to break down what I use. Keep in mind that I own more than 80 cord cutting devices: every Roku sold since 2011, every Fire TV/Fire Stick ever made, both first and second generation Nvidia Shields, Apple TV 4th…
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Roku Says ‘No Your Roku Can NOT Be Easily Hacked’
You may have woken up this morning to a flood of stories talking about how your Roku Player and Roku TV can be hacked! The truth is NO your TV cannot be easily hacked but a flood of stories would make you think it could happen. According to Roku “Consumer Reports issued a report saying that Roku…
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Philo Now Lets Subscribers Log In Apps from HGTV, DIY, Food Network, & More
A few weeks ago we reported that Philo was working on adding support to allow their subscribers to log in to network apps. Now it looks that has become a reality. Back in January 2018, Philo’s CEO Andrew McCollum talked about adding network app support: “We got a lot of requests for enabling logins on…
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service Will Costs $4.99 a Month
For over a year we have known that Disney was working on a streaming service for ESPN. The service will be caused ESPN+, and now we know the price. “The third feature is a plus service, we’re calling it ESPN Plus, that will include an array of live programming that is not available — live…
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Amazon is Working on a Conan The Barbarian TV Series
Today it was reported that Amazon is developing a drama series called Conan. The show will be based on the books by Rober E. Howard and the project comes from the Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield, Pathfinder Media and Endeavor Content. Deadline was the first to break the news and according to…
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Discovery Gets European Commission Approval to Buy Scripps Networks
Today Discovery is one step closer to buying Scripps Network the company that owns many popular channels like HGTV, The Travel Channel, Food Network, and more. Today the European Commission has approved Discovery’s proposed acquisition of Scripps Network. “We are pleased with the positive decision of the European Commission,” said Discovery CEO David Zaslav. “We believe…
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First Look: DIRECTV NOW Roku Beta
A couple of weeks ago AT&T started rolling out invites to test the DIRECTV NOW app beta on Roku players. Now, this is just testing the app, not the DVR. According to the emails going out, the DVR will come later. “The True Cloud DVR is not available for Roku devices yet. We’ll let you…
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Zyxel Multy X, Our Pick for Best Whole Home Wi-Fi Router for Cord Cutters
If you have followed Cord Cutters News for some time, you may have seen our review of the Netgear Whole Home Wi-Fi router. In that review, I talked about how I purchased it for my home use but ended up returning it. Recently Zyxel reached out to Cord Cutters News to offer to send us…
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fuboTV Tops 150,000 Viewers During The Super Bowl
Last October, fuboTV announced that they had topped 100,000 paid subscribers. Now it looks like they have continued to grow. According to a memo from fuboTV CEO David Gandler about the success fuboTV had during the Super Bowl, he states that fuboTV had over 150,000 viewers of the game. Although still lagging behind services such…
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How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off this week with the opening ceremonies getting started on Friday, February 9th 2018. The good news for cord cutters is for the first time you can enjoy the Winter Olympics without missing anything. Many of the biggest events will be 100% free on NBC with an antenna, but an additional…
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Tablo DVRs Now Support Samsung Smart TVs
Today Nuvyyo, the maker of Tablo DVRs, announced a new native app for Samsung smart TVs that run the TIZEN OS and are built from 2015 to today. “Tablo offers the widest breadth of fully functional DVR app support of any over-the-air TV solution on the market,” said Grant Hall, CEO at Nuvyyo, the makers…
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The FCC Is About to Release $2 Billion for Rural Broadband
Last week, the FCC took the final steps in a plan to release $2 billion in federal funding for new broadband infrastructure in rural areas. This plan is called the Connect America Fund II, and its goal is to subsidize work in underserviced areas. These areas are picked by the FCC, and companies will be…
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