Category: News

  • ViacomCBS Closes Purchase of 49% Stake in Miramax

    ViacomCBS Closes Purchase of 49% Stake in Miramax

    ViacomCBS and beIN Media Group have just announced the closing of the ViacomCBS purchase of a 49% stake in Miramax. beIN Media Group will keep its 51% stake in the company. This deal was announced back in December 2019. The deal, for $375 million, gives ViacomCBS joint ownership of Miramax’s catalog of 700 titles which…

  • Watch Cooking Shows & Improve Your Skills for Free with Tubi

    Watch Cooking Shows & Improve Your Skills for Free with Tubi

    Are you working on improving your cooking skills while staying at home? Just looking for something fun to watch, other than news? The free streaming service Tubi has a collection of “Good Eats” titles available, from instructional videos to competition cooking shows. Tubi TV currently has over 20,000 movies and TV shows in categories for…

  • Here’s the Full April Lineup For Sundance Now

    Here’s the Full April Lineup For Sundance Now

    With dramas, thrillers, documentaries and even a mockumentary, April brings a full new slate of programming available on Sundance Now. And don’t forget, Sundance Now has an extended free trial offer going on right now. Use the code SUNDANCENOW30 for a free 30-day trial for new subscribers. Here’s the full April lineup: Wednesday, April 1…

  • ABC News Live & ABC Stations Launch New Streaming Apps for Android TV & Amazon Fire TV

    ABC News Live & ABC Stations Launch New Streaming Apps for Android TV & Amazon Fire TV

    ABC News Live has launched new apps for Android TV and Amazon Fire TV. Viewers will get 24/7 live breaking news, live events and original programming through a newly developed native app. Additionally, ABC Owned Television Stations are launching apps for Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, the Roku platform, and Apple TV, bringing local newscasts…

  • Good News, Simpsons Fans: Disney Plus is Correcting the Aspect Ratio Issue

    Good News, Simpsons Fans: Disney Plus is Correcting the Aspect Ratio Issue

    Just after Disney+ launched in November 2019, Simpsons fans noticed that the episodes weren’t looking quite right. The aspect ratio had been adjusted to fit the screen, which caused some episodes to lose visual jokes. This was pointed out by subscribers on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, as in the tweet below, and even by former…

  • Free Streaming Service Pluto Turns 6 Years Old This Week

    Free Streaming Service Pluto Turns 6 Years Old This Week

    Pluto TV had a birthday this week marking 6 years of delivering free streaming content. Pluto TV has been consistently adding and rotating channels since being purchased by Viacom earlier this year. Right now Pluto TV has 242 channels from movie channels to news channels, and everything in between. PLUTO TV TURNS 6 TODAY! And…

  • AT&T Stops Selling U-verse TV As It Shifts Focus to AT&T TV

    AT&T Stops Selling U-verse TV As It Shifts Focus to AT&T TV

    For some time now we have heard that U-Verse TV’s days were numbered. Last year, AT&T had confirmed to Cord Cutters News that U-verse TV is no longer offered in markets where the new AT&T TV is now available. A few weeks ago, AT&T moved U-verse sales to be by phone only. Now, AT&T has…

  • Amazon Adds Free Live Content to IMDb TV’s Fire TV App

    Amazon Adds Free Live Content to IMDb TV’s Fire TV App

    A while back, we reported on Amazon potentially adding free live TV content to its IMDb TV streaming service. And now we’ve heard from a reliable source that the company has indeed updated the service’s Fire TV app to include channels like Tastemade, Buzzr, Shout TV, and more. IMDb TV launched in early 2019 under…

  • Here’s Everything Coming to Amazon Prime Video in April 2020

    Here’s Everything Coming to Amazon Prime Video in April 2020

    Here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video: April 1 Bangkok Dangerous Bird of Paradise Blind Husbands Broken Blossoms The Bodyguard The Boost The Brothers Grimm The Chumscrubber Daniel Boone Diamonds Are Forever Diary of a Hitman Die Another Day Dishonored Lady Dollface Dr. No Dr. T & the Women Drums in the Deep South For…

  • Edge Networks Will Test the Pay OTA Waters with Evoca Service This Summer

    Edge Networks Will Test the Pay OTA Waters with Evoca Service This Summer

    Edge Networks announced a new pay TV service it claims will offer more than 80 channels for less than half the cost of a cable subscription. The service, called Evoca, will use the new ATSC 3.0 standard, aka next-gen TV, to offer over-the-air (OTA) content for less than $50 per month. Expected to launch this…