Category: Amazon News
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Amazon Has a New Co-Head of Television
This it was announced that Vernon Sanders will be the new co-head of television at Amazon. He will work alongside Albert Cheng overseeing the creative and production units of Amazon Prime television operation. Sanders was previously the VP of current programming at NBC and executive VP of comedy programming and senior VP of drama for…
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Amazon Adds Hands Free Alexa To Amazon Music on Android & iOS
Every wish you could change a song our skip forward on Amazon Music without needing to pick up your phone? Now you can do just that with a new update to Amazon Music that adds hands-free Alexa support. Alexa was first added to Amazon Music a few months ago. Yet you still had to physically…
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Twitch Plans to Stream 500 Classic Episodes of Doctor Who for FREE
Starting May 29th Twitch in partnership with the BBC plans to stream 500 episodes of Doctor Who for free. This event will start May 29th and running for 8 hours each day beginning at 11 am PDT. Each block will repeat twice immediately after so you can catch any missed episodes. This is not the first…
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We Interviewed Amazon’s VP About Amazon Prime & Thursday Night NFL Football
Last week at the Pay TV Show in Denver, Cord Cutters News had an opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Rich Au, the director of Amazon Channels and one of the leads on Amazon’s sports deals. We chatted about some of the questions we hear from our readers. Amazon Prime One of the questions we…
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Study: PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, & DIRECTV NOW Customers Are Far Happier Than Cable TV Customers
Today, the American Customer Satisfaction Index was released and, for the first time, streaming services have been included. In what may be the least surprising news of the day, live TV streaming services like Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, and PlayStation Vue have a far higher customer satisfaction rating than cable TV customers. According to the…
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Amazon Has Renewed ‘The Expanse’ After Syfy Canceled The Show
Last week the very popular sci-fi show The Expanse was canceled by Syfy. Today we learned that Amazon has renewed the show for a 4th season as an Amazon Prime Exclusive. This deal makes a lot of sense for Amazon as Syfy had only first-run linear rights in the U.S. to The Expanse. Amazon had streaming rights…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of May 21st 2018
Netflix May 21 Señora Acero: Season 4 May 22 Mob Psycho 100: Season 1 Shooter: Season 2 Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 2 Tig Notaro: Happy To Be Here May 23 Explained May 24 Fauda: Season 2 Survivors Guide to Prison May 25 Ibiza Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget…
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Here is Everything New on Amazon in June 2018
Coming to Amazon Prime in June 2018 June 1 1492: Conquest Of Paradise (1992) 2 Days In The Valley (1996) Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold (1987) All Or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks (Prime Original series), Season 1 As Good As Dead (2010) August Rush (2007) Babylon 5, Seasons 1-5 Bad Lieutenant: Port…
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Expired: Amazon Has $1.99 Rentals on Marvel Movies, DEADPOOL, & More
Looking for a movie to watch? Right now Amazon has $1.99 rentals on a long list of movies from Marvel and others including DEADPOOL. Right now you can find Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider, Captain America Civil War, Thor, Ant-Man, Avengers, and more all for rent just $1.99. Note when you look at them in…
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DIRECTV NOW is Giving $75 Credits to 1st Gen Fire TV & Fire Stick Owners
Back in April DIRECTV NOW suddenly dropped support for 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick with no warning. When 1st gen Fire TV and Fire Stick owners opened their DIRECTV NOW app, they found a message notifying them that they needed to update their app. Sadly when they tried to update the app, they…