Author: Luke Bouma
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Hulu is Rebooting Animaniacs With Two Seasons Exclusive to Hulu
Today Hulu announced a deal to bring back Steven Spielberg’s Animaniacs as a Hulu original show. The deal gives Hulu rights to two new seasons and full access to the back catalog of Anaminac show. “We cannot wait to work with Steven Spielberg and the entire Amblin and Warner Bros. teams to bring more sketches,…
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Netflix Has Obtained Rights to The Book Old Man’s War
Netflix has slowly been building up their library of original content, and now they have struck a major deal for John Scalzi’s modern sci-fi classic Old Man’s War. According to reports from Deadline, Netflix will turn the book into a movie for their streaming service. Jon Scalzi is a three-time Hugo award winner including best…
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Sling TV is Offering Free Access to The SEC Network in Time For The National Championship
Today Sling TV announced that they will offer the SEC Network free to all Sling Orange subscribers starting January 6th 2018 and running through January 8th 2018. This is just in time for the NCAA National Championship game between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs on Monday, January, 8th. This will let Sling Orange subscribers…
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TiVo Introduces Their “Next-Gen Platform”
Today TiVo announced a new platform that TiVo says will be “a game-changing TV solution.” With this new platform, TiVo wants to offer hyper-personalization content across linear, over-the-top (OTT), on-demand and DVR platforms for multiscreen capabilities. In short, TiVo is hoping they can help end users discover content across a wide range of apps and services. “Consumers…
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Sling TV Partners With comScore For New Advertising Measurements
Today Sling TV announced that it has partnered with comScore to offer cross-platform addressable advertising measurement for campaigns that join the live OTT service’s impressions and DISH set-top box impressions. This will give Sling TV a leg up on the competition by allowing advertisers to see the campaign’s performance across the OTT service’s connected TV, mobile and…
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AT&T Announces Plans to Launch 5G Home Internet in a 23 Markets
5G home internet brings the promise of fiber speeds wirelessly over the air. A few weeks ago Verizon announced plans to launch in a handful of markets and now AT&T is promises the same. “5G will change the way we live, work and enjoy entertainment,” said Melissa Arnoldi, president, AT&T Technology and Operations. “We’re moving quickly to…
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How To Stop Getting Spam Email And Mail From Comcast, DIRECTV, Dish, TWC, And More
2018 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. Here is how you can get off their contact list for many of the major companies. The first thing you…
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DIRECTV NOW Users Saw Wide Spread Outages Over Night
Last night DIRECTV NOW went down at about 9 pm Eastern according to reports for our readers and some subscribers are still reporting the service as down this morning. At this time AT&T customer support reps are telling subscribers they are working on the issue and hope to have it back online shortly. Update: Cord Cutters News…
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Microsoft Creates “Connect Americans Now” to Push for Rural Broadband
Over the last few years Microsoft has quietly pushed for rural broadband by using TV’s white space spectrum to build fixed wireless Internet services in several states. Now with their Connect Americans Now push Microsoft is hoping to “ensure that there is sufficient unlicensed low band spectrum in every market in the country to enable…
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Piracy Boxes Are Now Being Sold at Legitimate Shopping Centers Including Military PXs
It is increasingly becoming more difficult to spot piracy services because the services are looking more professional and they charge. Piracy devices and services are now trying to make the leap into legitimate shopping centers. For months now we have heard of booths at flea markets, state fairs, and other places selling piracy devices. Now…