Category: News
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A New Food and Drink Focused Streaming Service SommTV Launches
SommTV, a new streaming service featuring food and drink related content, has officially launched. SommTV was created by the producers of the “Somm” documentary film series. The streaming service will make a full launch in March 2020, but viewers can now subscribe at an introductory price of $9.99 per month or $74.99 per year. ‘There’s…
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The FCC Just Awarded $61 Million to Help Expand High-Speed Internet to Rural Americans
Today the FCC announced that it has awarded over $61 million in new funding to help bring high-speed Internet to rural Americans. This award will help expand Internet to rural Americans in Washington, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, Montana, Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kansas. Funding for this initiative comes from the Universal Service…
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YouTube Has Expanded Its Lineup of Free to Watch Movies (With Ads)
Back in November 2018, YouTube quietly added about 100 hours of movies to its platform. These movies are 100% free with ads and include a mix of well-known movies like The Terminator, Lord of War, Meatballs, and more. Now YouTube has tripled the number of movies it is offering for free and started to promote the free…
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Comcast Has Over Charged Thousands of Internet Customers (Check Your Bills)
If you have Comcast as your Internet provider, you may want to check your recent bills. Comcast has confirmed that a “software error occurred” that has resulted in about 2,000 customers being mistakenly charged for going over their monthly data caps. Comcast imposes data caps in 27 of the 39 states it operates in. If…
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DIRECTV & DISH May Merge & Be Run By AT&T According To a New Report
Over the last few months, there has been growing pressure on AT&T from investors to do something with the declining DIRECTV satellite unit. Some investors have even called on AT&T to sell off DIRECTV’s satellite service. Now according to a report from Fox Business, there is a deal in the works that would see DIRECTV…
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Do We Have Too Many Cable TV Channels? Wasn’t Cable Meant to Be Easy?
Recently we have seen a growing number of stories online about how streaming is just too complicated because there are so many services. One recent example of this was the Los Angeles Times story “Oversubscribed! Wasn’t cord-cutting supposed to streamline our lives?” This question about too many streaming services raises one more question. Do we…
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Review: The 2019 Fire TV Cube From Amazon vs The 2018 Fire TV Cube
Today the 2019 Fire TV Cube hits stores with its new hexa-core processor making it more than twice as powerful as the first-generation Fire TV Cube. The question now is will this new more powerful processor show up when you take it home and plug it in. Thanks to Amazon we got our hands on…
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Cord Cutting Today #162 – AT&T Selling Some of Its Operations, TCL’s New Roku TVs, & More
Cord Cutting Today is our daily look at some of the biggest stories happening right now in the world of cord cutting. You can find these videos posted on YouTube every Monday through Saturday. Today we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting. Including AT&T Selling Some…
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Amazon Announces New Details About ‘Jack Ryan’ Season 2 (Spoiler Alert)
Calling all John Krasinski Fans – season 2 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will premiere November 1, 2019, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, and we have all the details of every episode below. In the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, after tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle,…