Tag: Streaming
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The Death of Cable TV is Going Global As Cord Cutting Expands
The rise of streaming services has resulted in more households cutting the cord on traditional cable services. Next year, experts predict we’ll see the first yearly decline in pay TV penetration worldwide. By 2025, all regions will see a drop in pay TV penetration, or the number of pay TV subscriptions relative to the number…
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Here Are IMDB’s Top Rated TV Episodes of September and Where to Watch Them
IMDB is a go-to site for all things entertainment. Visitors can check out upcoming movie trailers, read reviews on new releases, and search for the most popular titles. But it also has a user-based ratings system that ranks shows, giving you a sense of what people gravitated towards. September saw heavy competition with a number…
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Sports Fans Would Pay a Premium For A Simpler Steaming Experience, Study Says
Sports fans would pay extra for a “less fragmented” streaming service that offers the content they want. The lack of that one simple option means a majority of folks are still choosing cable over streaming when it comes to catching that live game. That’s one of the big conclusions from the 2023 Sports Fan Insights:…
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Cord Cutting Will Become Cheaper and Easier in the U.K. With Upcoming Free Live TV Streaming Service
British TV companies are launching a new free live TV streaming service in 2024, a massive boon for cord cutters. The British broadcasters on Monday unveiled Freely, a service that will enable viewers to browse and watch live TV channels as well as stream on-demand content to their smart TVs via the internet. Freely will…
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Hulu + Live TV Sees Huge Bump in Signups After Spectrum-Disney Fight
Hulu + Live TV saw a 60% spike in subscribers after Charter Spectrum dropped Disney-owned networks on August 31. The day before, Spectrum warned customers that they could lose channels like ESPN, FX, Freeform, Natgeo, Disney Channel and Baby TV as well as multiple local ABC channels. With college football season ramping up, cutting off cable…
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Netflix Turns 26 Years Old. Here’s How Far the Streaming Service Has Come
Netflix turned 26 on Tuesday and the streaming service is a far cry from where it started in the late 90s. Netflix went from offering DVDs in the mail with a pay-per-rental model, to hosting thousands of movies and TV shows that subscribers can access from almost anywhere on multiple devices. Netflix launched its streaming…
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Entertainment Industry Loses 17,000 Jobs in August As Strike Continues
The Hollywood writers’ strike has surpassed 120 days and the U.S’s labor market is starting to feel the effects. The motion picture and sound recording industries lost 17,000 jobs “reflecting strike activity,” according to an employment report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Writers Guild America and SAG-AFTRA are demanding concessions like increased…
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Premier League Steps Up War on IPTV With More Aggressive Crackdown
With the Premier League season underway, the English football league is cracking down on the illegal streaming of its matches by bolstering its legal team, blocking pirated feeds and launching private prosecutions, according to the Financial Times. Premier League general counsel, Kevin Plumb, told the publication that piracy’s online evolution forced the competition to assemble…
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Scammers Are Targeting Cord Cutters. Know How To Keep Yourself Safe
It’s difficult enough to cancel a service when companies are trying their hardest to keep you subscribed with tricky wording, barely visible unsubscribe buttons and troublesome cancellation processes. The last thing you need is a scammer sneaking into the middle of the process to drain your bank account. If you’re ready to call it quits…
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Fox Soul Is Now Live On DIRECTV STREAM
Fox Soul, a live streaming service through Fox Television, is reportedly launching on DIRECTV STREAM today. A post in the Satellite Guys forums on Monday indicated that Fox Soul would be channel 4,401. Cord Cutters News reached out to Fox and DIRECTV for more information and we’ll update when we hear back. Update: Fox has…