Author: Luke Bouma
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Facebook Plans to Spend Billions on Sports Streaming Rights
Sports streaming is becoming one of the hottest markets in the world of cord cutting. Amazon, Twitter, Stadium, Facebook, and other companies are all fighting it out for sports streaming rights. Now Facebook is stepping up their efforts to get streaming rights to sporting events. According to Sports Business Journal Facebook has set aside a…
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AT&T-Time Warner Antitrust Trial Date Set For March 19th
Today it was announced that the Department of Justice lawsuit to block the AT&T merger with Time Warner will be in court on March 19th 2018. This will cut it very close to AT&T’s April 22nd, 2018 date for the deal to end if no ruling has been reached and the Judge did warn that…
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5 YouTube Red Originals Are Now Free for a Limited Time
Starting today YouTube Red is making five of their family-friendly original shows free for a limited time. Now you can enjoy them even if you are not a YouTube Red subscriber on the YouTube Kids app. This is the first time YouTube has ever made their original shows free on YouTube. The free trial is…
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Hulu Added 32 ABC & NBC Affiliates This Week
Hulu has been busy this week adding new locals to their live TV streaming service. Today Hulu confirmed to Cord Cutters News that they added 23 new ABC affiliates and 9 new NBC affiliates to their live TV streaming service. With the addition of these new ABC and NBC affiliates, Hulu’s live TV streaming service…
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Expired: Deal Alert: 30% Off KindleUnlimited Or 3 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited For $0.99
Love reading or music? Well, Amazon has a deal for you. Right now KindleUnlimited is 30% off of a 12-month membership. If you love music you can get 3 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for just $0.99. KindleUnlimited legal details: Kindle Unlimited offer is limited to one per account and is a limited-time deal. The…
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Verizon Gives a First Look at Their 5G Home Internet
5G has been the dream of cord cutters for years. Now Verizon has announced plans to roll it out to several markets next year. For some time though Verizon has already been testing 5G Internet in several markets. Last week they released a video with a first look at what they have been working on:…
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Sling TV Launches Standalone Premium On-Demand Channels
Today Sling TV announced that you can now add several popular streaming services to Sling TV as a stand-alone option. No longer will you need to set up separate billing options you can now use Sling TV as your all in one billing option for several different streaming services. “Here at Sling TV, we’re constantly expanding our…
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Here is Every Local fuboTV Currently Offers (Updated December 2017)
Recently fuboTV has been busy adding locals. From having only a couple locals at the start of the year fuboTV now has 105 locals at the time of this posting. Here is the breakdown of the locals on fuboTV: * NBC coverage in 35% of U.S. households and 11 of top 20 markets. * FOX…
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Comcast Is Raising the Rental Price of Their Internet Modems
If you are still renting a modem from Comcast, it may be time to buy one. Right now Comcast is rolling out new rental prices on their modems that will raise the monthly rental to $11. From our understanding, some Comcast subscribers are already seeing the price hike, and all Comcast subscribers will see the…
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Hoopla Digital is Now Available on Roku Players
A few weeks ago we learned that hoopla digital was added to the Apple TV, Android TV, and the Fire TV. Today they launched an app on Roku Players and Roku TVs. hoopla digital told Cord Cutters News that this is an early “sneak peek” version of their Roku Channel. With this Roku Channel, you…