Tag: Comcast
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Comcast Has No Plans to Take on Sling TV, YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, Etc
This week Comcast’s CEO Dave Watson spoke at an investor conference and the topic of skinny bundles (i.e., Sling, Hulu, YouTube TV, etc) came up. According to Watson, Comcast has no plans to chase after cord cutters by competing with Sling TV, Hulu, PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, and Philo. “We’re simply not going to chase…
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Disney is Reportedly in Talks to Buy AT&T’s Share of Hulu
For some time now there have been reports that Disney wanted to buy AT&T’s 10% share of Hulu. Now Variety is reporting that AT&T and Disney are in talks to sell AT&T’s 10% share to Disney. When AT&T purchased Time Warner, it came with a 10% stake in Hulu. (It is important to note that…
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Cord Cutting This Week 63 – Sling TV is Bigger Than PlayStation Vue & DIRECTV NOW, ATSC 3.0, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…
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AT&T, Spectrum, Comcast, Dish, & Verizon Lost 1.1 Million Subscribers in The 4th Quarter of 2018
Cable TV had a really bad 2018 with over 1.1 million subscribers canceling their traditional pay-TV services in just the 4th quarter. This news comes as today Dish announced that they lost 334,000 pay TV subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2018. Dish’s losses are in addition to the 658,000 DIRECTV lost, 36,000 Spectrum lost, 19,000 Comcast…
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How To Stop Getting Spam Email And Mail From Comcast, DIRECTV, Dish, Spectrum, And More (2019 Update)
2019 is here and your ex-pay TV provider really wants you back. We all know the pain after you cancel your TV service you get hundreds of emails and letters asking you to come back. The good news is you can make them stop but you need to do a little work. Here is how…
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Comcast Publicly Disputes Reports That They Won’t Support The Apple TV
Late last week it was reported that Comcast had walked away from talks with Apple and had decided not to support the Apple TV. Today Comcast publicly denied these reports saying “BestAppleTV ran a story last week that contains numerous inaccuracies and wrongly conflates individual business dealings and relationships from Sky, NBCUniversal and Comcast Cable.”…
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Comcast’s New Streaming Service Will Reportedly Not Support The Apple TV
Today reports came out that Comcast plans to not support the Apple TV for their new streaming services. A source that talked with BESTAppleTV said: “Comcast is focused on the Now TV solution as the future of its streaming infrastructure and Apple has been told this.” That source went on to say, “Apple has also been…
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Our Rebuttal to NBC’s Anti-Cord Cutting Story
This week, Netflix announced a $2 price hike and, as you would expect, big media companies jumped at the chance to bash cord cutting. This time NBC News quickly released a story called “The Bundle strikes back: How streaming caught up to cable TV prices.” In this story, NBC News (which is owned by Comcast)…
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Comcast, AT&T, DISH, Spectrum, & Others Are All Raising Their TV Prices This Month
It’s January and for traditional TV subscribers, that means it is time to pay more. We already reported on Spectrum and Comcast’s price hikes coming out later this month, now we know DISH is also raising their price. The price hikes seem to range from as little as $1 a month on things like Regional…
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Comcast Teams Up with the Cord Cutting Service VIVA Live TV
Recently Comcast and VivaLive TV quietly announced that they have teamed up for some unknown project. A regulatory 8-K filing made by Viva Entertainment Group on November 28, 2018, found by LightReading.com announced that VivaLive TV has entered into “material definitive agreement” with Comcast. VivaLive TV sells premade live TV streaming packages that can be…