Author: Jess Barnes

  • DISH Sued This Piracy Service in 2018 But Says Its Operators Are Still Running IPTV Services

    DISH Sued This Piracy Service in 2018 But Says Its Operators Are Still Running IPTV Services

    In November 2018, DISH was awarded over $90,000,000 in damages from SetTV, a popular streaming app that offered hundreds of channels for just $20 per month, when it was determined that SetTV was illegally obtaining DISH’s broadcast and redistributing them to customers online. Now, DISH claims the operators of the service are back at it…

  • Amazon’s Luna Cloud Gaming Service is Now Available to All U.S. Customers

    Amazon’s Luna Cloud Gaming Service is Now Available to All U.S. Customers

    Amazon announced today that its Luna gaming service is now available for customers in the mainland U.S. and that it has expanded its library to include more games and new features. New games include a Prime Gaming Channel that gives Amazon Prime customers a rotating collection of free games. Luna also added a Retro channel…

  • Last Chance: Get One Month of Paramount+ Free

    Last Chance: Get One Month of Paramount+ Free

    Paramount has big content plans for next month. In March, the streaming service is premiering the third season of Star Trek: Picard, releasing its new Original HALO, streaming CBS’ March Madness games, and bringing more TV, movies, and sports to subscribers. Later, we’ll get another chapter in the Yellowstone saga and, as Paramount+ loves to say,…

  • Peacock is Streaming Original True Crime Series ‘Prime Crime’

    Peacock is Streaming Original True Crime Series ‘Prime Crime’

    The first season of “Prime Crime” is now streaming on Peacock. The true crime series is produced by Law&Crime Productions and is hosted by Law&Crime anchor Jesse Weber. “Prime Crime” takes a deep dive into sinister high-profile crime stories, such as Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in US history, the story of Justin…

  • fuboTV Adds Fox Weather to Base Package

    fuboTV Adds Fox Weather to Base Package

    Earlier this month, Fox Weather announced that it would be expanding to more platforms. At the time, Fox Weather had been added to Amazon News on Fire TV and to YouTube TV. Today, the streaming weather channel was added to fuboTV. “Following our successful launch this past fall, we are excited to significantly expand our…

  • Discovery Ended 2021 with 22 Million Subscribers

    Discovery Ended 2021 with 22 Million Subscribers

    Discovery Inc. ended Q4 with 22 million paid streaming subscribers, according to the company’s quarterly earnings report released Thursday. That number includes Discovery+, which added 2 million subscribers for the quarter. “2021 was by all measures an exceptional year for our company, in which we achieved significant operational, financial, and strategic objectives. We grew our global…

  • Sling TV Ended 2021 with 2.49 Million Subscribers

    Sling TV Ended 2021 with 2.49 Million Subscribers

    Dish released its Q4 2021 earnings report Thursday morning, reporting a 595,000 pay TV subscriber loss for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2021. Dish also reported that Sling TV ended the year with 2.486 million subscribers, slightly up year over year from 2.474 million but down 70K for the quarter from 2.6 million. Compared…

  • Plex Adds 10 New Channels to Its Free Streaming Lineup

    Plex Adds 10 New Channels to Its Free Streaming Lineup

    Plex is growing its channel lineup again this month with the addition of 10 new channels. There are now more sci-fi, sports, game, and cartoon options on Plex’s free streaming platform. The new channels now available on Plex include: Kino Cult (Available in the US and Canada)Dive deep into genre cinema with recent discoveries, midnight movies…

  • fuboTV: Studio and Network Streaming Service Strategies are ‘Unsustainable’

    fuboTV: Studio and Network Streaming Service Strategies are ‘Unsustainable’

    Today, fuboTV released its Q4 2021 earnings report, along with a letter to shareholders. According to the report, fuboTV saw year over year growth and added 185,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter and reached 1.13 million subscribers by the end of the year. In the letter to shareholders, fubo explained that “triple-digit year-over-year growth in…

  • fuboTV Reaches 1.13 Million Subscribers

    fuboTV Reaches 1.13 Million Subscribers

    fuboTV released its Q4 2021 earnings report today and shared that the live TV streaming service added 185,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter and reached 1.13 million subscribers by the end of the year. The company also announced 2022 guidance, expecting to drive over $1 billion in total revenue this year. fuboTV reported record year…