Tag: tvision
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Weekend Wrap-Up: TVision Shutting Down, Netflix Bets on Anime, and More
This week, we learned that T-Mobile is drastically shaking up its live TV streaming plans by shutting down its TVision service and, instead, partnering with YouTube TV and Philo. Meanwhile, Univision launched a new Spanish-language streaming service of its own. And Netflix looks to double down on anime and anime-influenced animation in 2021. Here’s what…
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T-Mobile Shuts Down TVision, Partners with YouTube TV and Philo
Today, T-Mobile announced that its streaming service TVision will shut down at the end of April. Instead, customers will be able to subscribe to YouTube TV and Philo to take the place of TVision Live and Vibe, with exclusive discounts for T-Mobile customers. TVision launched just five months ago in October 2020 with TVision Vibe…
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T-Mobile TVision Adds TV Everywhere Support
T-Mobile’s TVision streaming service has added TV Everywhere support for many of its channels, including Discovery channels and VIacomCBS channels. TVision launched in October, with live TV streaming starting at $40/month. Soon after launching, networks called the service out for not distributing content as promised in contracts. To resolve the issue, TVision began offering all…
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T-Mobile Adds 30+ Channels to TVision Live to Address Distribution Disputes
T-Mobile is adding 33 channels to its TVision live package, the same 33 channels available in its TVision Vibe package, at no additional cost. This is a limited time offer, and seems to be a way for T-Mobile to address disagreements with programmers over where their content landed on the TVision service. Soon after T-Mobile…
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T-Mobile is Discontinuing TVision Home
Just after launching its TVision Live streaming service in October, T-Mobile is notifying customers that it will be discontinuing its TVision Home service in December. T-Mobile is encouraging TVision Home subscribers to migrate to TVision Live. TVision Home was a relaunch of Layer3. The service launched in April 2019 that the company described as an…
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Tired of Live Streaming Service Price Hikes? Here are Four More Affordable Options
Today, Hulu announced that the cost of its live streaming package will go up by $10/month to $64.99/month beginning on December 18. This summer, YouTube TV also raised its price to $64.99/month. fuboTV did the same and raised the price of its Family plan to $64.99/month. With the prices of these services going up, you…
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T-Mobile Surpasses 100 Million Customers
Even though the 2020 pandemic is wreaking havoc on companies across America, some corporations are still growing. And one of those just passed a big milestone. T-Mobile has announced they have more than 100 million customers (100.4 million to be exact), making them the second largest wireless carrier. The company added just over 2 million…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Roku Earnings, T-Mobile Troubles, Spectrum Price Hikes, and More
Welcome to November 2020. There is, shall we say, a lot going on right now beyond the entertainment world, but there was still plenty of cord cutting and streaming news to talk about this week. We’ve got more third quarter earnings to talk about from Roku and others and more streaming app support for next-gen…
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T-Mobile Responds to Concerns Over TVision Content Distribution
Yesterday, Discovery CEO David Zaslav commented during the company’s Q3 earnings call that he was “very surprised” to see Discovery channels on T-Mobile’s low cost streaming plan, Vibe, but not the more expensive Live packages. NBC and ViacomCBS quickly joined Discovery in sharing their issues with the way T-Mobile has chosen to distribute content. By…
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NBC and ViacomCBS Join Discovery in Expressing Concern Over T-Mobile Content Distribution
Earlier today, Discovery CEO David Zaslav mentioned during the company’s Q3 earnings call that he took issue with the way T-Mobile designed the channel lineups for its new streaming services. Zaslav was “very surprised” to see Discovery owned channels on the Vibe plan but missing from the TVision Live plans. ViacomCBS followed suit, saying that…