Category: News
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This Cable TV Company Is Shutting Down Its TV Service & Replacing It With a Fire TV Stick
If you live in parts of Nebraska or Indiana, your cable TV company may soon no longer offer cable TV through a cable TV box. Instead, they are going all-in on streaming with a Fire TV Stick. Great Plains Communications quietly started to send customers Fire TV Sticks to replace their cable TV boxes and…
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Comcast Is Bringing Cable TV Fees to Cord Cutting
This week Comcast finally announced it will start selling its Xumo Stream Box. This box is similar to a Roku or a Fire TV and streams most streaming services. But get ready for a very cable TV–like experience. This streaming player is a joint effort with Charter’s Spectrum. Comcast says this streaming player has over…
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Bally Sports May Drop 3 More MLB Teams In a Deal to Air the 2024 Season
Yesterday, during a court hearing, MLB lawyers said that a framework had been reached for a deal to have Bally Sports air the 2024 MBL season. The catch is three of the remaining 11 MLB teams may be dropped by Bally Sports or have their contracts changed. “We are in a position to believe that…
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Mayim Bialik Has Been Fired From Jeopardy!
Today, Mayim Bialik announced she was fired by Sony as one of the hosts of Jeopardy! “As the holiday break begins in Hollywood, I have some ‘Jeopardy!’ news. Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of ‘Jeopardy!’” Mayim Bialik wrote in a post on Instagram. “I am incredibly…
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You Might Be Owed Money From Apple’s $25 Million Class Action Settlement
Apple on Friday agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over its Family Sharing feature for $25 million. The suit, originally filed in 2019, alleged that Apple “misrepresented the ability to use its Family Sharing feature to share subscriptions to apps,” according to a page set up to alert plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit. …
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Bally Sports Gets Reprieve on Sinclair Payment, MLB Deal, as it Deals With Bankruptcy
Bally Sports, which is still working on a plan to get out of bankruptcy, got a bit of a reprieve on Friday after a judge denied former parent Sinclair Broadcasting’s motion to for the regional sports network to immediately pay it for management services, according to a spokeswoman for Bally Sports. The judge also pushed…
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Plex Adds Over 20 New Free Channels This Week
Free live TV streaming service Plex reached a deal to expand its content lineup with the addition of 20 new live channels. These include multiple channels from the BBC. Plex now offers more than 50,000 on-demand titles and hundreds of live channels and has slowly grown into one of the largest free ad-supported streaming services…
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YouTube Will Start Showing Fewer Ads, but There’s a Catch
YouTube is changing up how it shows ads in videos. The video-sharing app will now group ads together for longer ad breaks, instead of multiple short ad breaks during your video. In addition, viewers will see a countdown of how much time is left in the ad break instead of the number of ads they’ll…
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Pac-12 TV Network is at Death’s Door With Layoffs Coming
The Pac-12 network’s time is almost up with the Pac-12 Conference planning to lay off 141 employees starting January 5, 2024. Cord Cutters News independently confirmed that the layoffs were happening, but future plans for the impacted production facility in San Ramon are yet undetermined. The layoffs will continue through June 28, according to the…
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Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can
The idea of smartphones and smart speakers listening to everything you say and then sending you targeted advertisements has been around for years, and has largely been debunked by privacy experts. But the marketing unit of Cox Media Group, which owns newspapers and local radio and TV stations around the country, says it can do…