Author: Luke Bouma
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Hulu Adds Support for Alexa Voice Commands
A few weeks ago Hulu announced that you will soon be able to use your voice to control Hulu on Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices. Today Hulu updated their Fire TV apps to now support Alexa voice commands. By simply pairing a Fire TV and an Echo device, users will be able to ask…
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DIRECTV NOW Added More FOX & CBS Affiliates Last Night
Last night AT&T started to add Meredith owned CBS affiliates and Sinclair owned FOX affiliates to DIRECTV NOW. Now, this may not mean all Meredith owned CBS or all Sinclair owned FOX affiliates will go live this week. Recently DIRECTV NOW has not been waiting to add every affiliate at once from a company but adding them as…
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PlayStation Vue Is Moving Some Fox Sports Networks to Their Sports Add-on
Yesterday PlayStation Vue quietly moved several networks including FOX College Sports Central and FOX College Sports from several of their packages to their Sports Pack add-on. This means even if you have their Elite or Ultra plan, you will need to pay an extra $10 a month to get access to FOX College Sports Centra,…
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Roku is Rolling Out The 8.0 Update to More Roku TVs Today
Over the last few weeks, Roku has updated most of the current Roku line of players including the Roku Stick and Roku Express. Today Roku quietly started to roll out the Roku OS 8.0 update to more Roku TVs. Did your Roku TV update to 8.0? Leave us a comment and let us know the…
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DIRECTV NOW Has Started to Add Meredith Owned CBS Affiliates
If you live in a market with a Meredith Owned CBS Affiliate you may want to check your guide. Today Cord Cutters News started to receive multiple reports from our readers that if you search for CBS shows in a Meredith market they now show up in the DIRECTV NOW guide. Now the stations are not live…
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AT&T is Fighting Back Against the DOJ Lawsuit
Well, it looks like AT&T is not going to take the DOJ lawsuit to block their purchase of Time Warner laying down. (The TV company, not the cable company.) Now AT&T is making it clear they are willing to offer concessions but are not willing to sell assets. Today during a speech at The Economic…
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Spike TV Is Becoming the Paramount Network in January
If you have Spike TV on your live TV streaming service, it will soon be getting a new brand and a new lineup. Recently Viacom, the parent company behind Spike TV, announced that the network will be renamed The Paramount Network on January 18, 2018. The network is said to be making a slight shift…
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Hulu & Disney Announce a New Stream Deal
Today Hulu and Disney announce a new streaming deal to add several popular Disney/ABC Television Group owned ABC hit shows to Hulu. These show include Designated Survivor and classics like Blossom. Now not only will you get the newest episodes from Designated Survivor but the full back catalog on Hulu. Revenge: All four seasons of the…
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Hulu Officially Opens Their New Viewer Experience HQ
First announced back in March 2017, Hulu this week officially opened their new Viewer Experience Headquarters (HQs) in San Antonio, Texas. Hulu is creating 500 new jobs at this locations: 300 of these jobs will be hired by the end of 2017 with the additional 200 coming in 2018. It has been reported that the…
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ESPN Fires 150 Employees to Cut Costs as Cord Cutting Grows
Earlier in November, it was reported that ESPN planned to lay off more staff. Today we learned that 150 ESPN employees have been laid off. Here is a copy of the memo sent to employees form ESPN President John Skipper: Today we are informing approximately 150 people at ESPN that their jobs are being eliminated.…