Category: News
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Amazon is Adding Sling TV to Its Grid Guide on The Fire TV
One of the best features of the Fire TV is its grid guide that combines services like Pluto TV and Philo into a single channel guide. With Philo for example, if you add it as a live source all the Philo channels appear in the Fire TV channel guide meaning your OTA antenna, and other…
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The Roku Ultra is On Sale for $77.96 (Lowest Price of 2020)
Need a new Roku for Christmas? Right now the 2019 Roku Ultra with the new and improved remove and JBL headphones is on sale for just $77.96 down from $99.99. You do need to hurry though as this sale will likely end soon. If you wanted to wait until 2020 to get your new Roku…
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YouTube TV Has New Channels & New Features – Here is Our 2020 Guide to YouTube TV
As 2020 gets underway YouTube TV is a very different service from what it was at the start of 2019. With new channels like PBS being added and features like a new and improved DVR being offered, we’re here to give you the details you’ve asked for, to help you decide which service is right…
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AT&T Is Betting Big on AT&T TV, But the Lack of Roku Support May Kill It
We are just a few weeks away from the nationwide rollout of AT&T’s new live TV service AT&T TV. With AT&T TV you get a DIRECTV-like experience but with online streaming including contracts, fees, and more. AT&T has publicly announced that AT&T TV and HBO Max are their main focus. AT&T hopes that the launch…
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There Are Three Different Types of Cord Cutters: What Type of Cord Cutter Are You?
If you read Cord Cutters News every day you know we often talk about how there is no one-size-fits-all solution to cord cutting. Still one of the most common arguments in our comments and social media is what it really means to be a cord cutter. Can you be a cord cutter and subscribe to…
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Oprah Winfrey Upcoming Documentary for Apple TV+ Has Been Canceled
Today Oprah Winfrey has announced that she will be withdrawing from the upcoming Untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Documentary. This move has also resulted in the documentary being canceled on Apple TV+ according to a Deadline report. Oprah Winfrey issued the following statement about this plan: “I have decided that I will no longer…
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Gracenote is Delivering the Data to Make Accurate Recommendations for Cord Cutting Services
This week at CES, Gracenote, a Nielsen company, showed how streaming services, Smart TV makers and traditional cable and satellite operators can use Gracenote’s metadata to create guides and recommendations that will better meet viewer needs and expectations. “While much of the focus in the ‘Streaming Wars’ conversation has been on the largest catalogs and…
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Lizzie McGuire Showrunner Leaves the Show’s Disney+ Revival Stopping Production
Lizzie McGuire fans were happy to hear that Disney+ was planning to bring the show back, including some of the original cast and the show’s creator as showrunner of the revival. While the series is still set to launch on the streaming platform in 2020, the show’s creator, Terri Minsky, has stepped away from her…
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Pandora & SiriusXM are Testing Bundle Deals
Since SiriusXM purchased Pandora for $3.5 billion, the two companies have been working to find ways to cross promote their products. Sirius created commercial free stations powered by Pandora and Pandora added SiriusXM talk shows as podcasts to the platform. Now, TechCrunch has reported that SiriusXM and Pandora are working on offering customers an opportunity…
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Amazon Wants to Challenge Roku For Dominance in OTT Ad Sales
Ads on streaming services and streaming players have become a huge market one Roku has recently dominated. Now according to the Wallstreet Journal Amazon wants to expand its ad sales form the Fire TV to a growing list of connected devices including the Apple TV, Android TV, Xbox, and PlayStation. According to reports programmers like…