Tag: AT&T
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Here Are the Devices DirecTV Now Will Support at Launch
One of the major things to consider when selecting a new streaming service is the devices it supports. So far for live TV you needed an app to watch a service on your PC—both Sling and PlayStation Vue do not offer an option to watch through a web browser. That may not seem like…
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DirecTV Now’s $35 Price Includes 100 Channels, But is There a Catch…
This week it was announced that AT&T’s DirecTV Now service would start at $35 a month and offer 100 channels. That left many to wonder if there was some kind of catch to this deal. Rumors started to fly about extra hidden costs, long-term contracts, and more. So Cord Cutters News started to dig to…
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Netflix is Worried About AT&T Buying Time Warner
Over the weekend AT&T and Time Warner rushed a deal through that would sell Time Warner to AT&T. It’s a deal that is raising eyebrows around the industry including at Netflix. “We want to require that for AT&T customers, that HBO and Netflix are treated the same,” Hastings, Netflix’s CEO told CNBC in an interview at the event. “Now…
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DirecTV Now is Launching November 4th & Other Details
We now have a more detailed look at the new DirecTV Now service coming from AT&T thanks to a leaked email. Satellite Guys a website focusing everything satellite TV has posted an internal email that went out to DirecTV installers yesterday. Here is a copy of that email: As you may have heard, AT&T is launching…
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DirecTV Now Will Be Released in November & New Pricing Details
Excited for AT&T new live TV streaming service DirecTV Now. As part of a discussion of the Time Warner acquisition, AT&T chief Randall Stephenson has revealed that DirecTV Now will be ready in November. It might be a deal if sources are right, Stephenson vows that it will carry a price “radically lower” than competing offerings. Just…
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Should Cord Cutters Be Worried About AT&T Buying Time Warner?
Over the weekend AT&T and Time Warner (the company that owns stations such as HBO and TNT not the cable company) came to a deal that would allow AT&T to buy Time Warner. Although there are many possible hurdles that could cause this deal to fall apart—similar to how Comcast buying TWC fell apart—what happens…
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AT&T Buys HBO & Time Warner for $80 Billion
AT&T Inc. has reached an agreement to buy Time Warner who owns channels like HBO for between $105 and $110 a share, with a deal likely to be announced as soon as Saturday evening, according to people familiar with the plans. Time Warner owns HBO, Warner Bros, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc that gives them access to channels like…
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AT&T is Close to a Deal to Buy HBO & Time Warner
Reports are that Senior executives at AT&T and Time Warner have met in recently to discuss various a possible merger, according to people familiar with the matter. “There’s a lot that’s attractive about Time Warner,” media industry veteran Peter Chernin, who runs an online video joint venture with AT&T, said in an interview Thursday on…
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DirecTV Now Will NOT Have Skinny Bundles
DirecTV Now is AT&T’s plan to take on Sling TV and PlayStation Vue. Yet it seems AT&T is going to take a very different approach to their DirecTV Now service. DirecTV Now will offer more than 100 channels of live and on demand programming, targeted at younger viewers. But at the Next TV Summit here…
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AT&T Plans to Move All DirecTV Subscribers to Their New Streaming Service
AT&T recently purchased DirecTV and is moving quickly to take advantage of the name and contracts. Sometime this year AT&T plans to release a new streaming service called DirecTV NOW. They also announced that the AT&T U-verse TV service is going to start moving subscribers over to DirecTV. Now word is coming from AT&T that…