Category: News
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Cord Cutting Today #79 – Rescan Your Antenna, New Tivo DVR, PlayStation Vue, & More
Did you know we have a daily YouTube cord cutting newscast? Cord Cutting Today look sat the biggest Cord Cutting stories from the past 24 hours in about five or so minutes. We will post these Monday through Friday in an effort to help keep you up to date on everything happening in the world…
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The FTC is Cracking Down on Robocallers Responsible For a Billion Unwanted Phone Calls
Today the FTC announced that they will be announcing a massive crackdown on Robocallers. According to the FTC, they are working with the Indiana Attorney General to go after robocallers responsible for more than a billion illegal robocalls. This new operation will be officially announced tomorrow and will be called “Operation Call it Quits.” This…
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How to Watch The 2020 Democratic Debates on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and More
Looking to watch Democratic Debates on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and more? On June 26th, 2019 and the second debate on June 27th, 2019 starting at 9 PM Eastern you will find the Democratic Debates airing on NBC, Telemundo, and MSNBC. The good news is as a cord cutter you have many options to…
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Tubi Now Has Over 20 Million Monthly Users Using its Free Streaming Service
Today the free streaming service Tubi announced that they have surpassed 20 million monthly active users and customers watched over 94 million hours of content during May. In addition, Tubi announced that it had the single biggest month of revenue in the company’s history. “Tubi has made remarkable strides in the first half of the…
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Can You Use a T-Mobile Hotspot to Cut the Cord on Comcast and Spectrum Internet?
Earlier this month, we shared a post about cutting the cord without home internet. In that post, we included mobile hotspots as one option. In a note about that option, we mentioned that streaming with a hotspot for any significant amount of time wouldn’t be realistic. In this post, we’re discussing whether it’s possible and…
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Tivo Has a New Cord Cutting DVR in The Works Called The Tivo Edge
Last week we learned that TiVo was working on a new DVR for cable customers. Today ZatzNotFunny.com confirmed thanks to an FCC filing that Tivo also has a new DVR in the works for cord cutters. The new Tivo Edge is a 4 tuner DVR with 2TB of storage confirmed. (It is very possible that…
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Viacom Officially Announces a New BET+ Streaming Service
Recently we learned that Viacom was working on a streaming service based on the BET network. Today Viacom officially announced BET+ in partnership with Tyler Perry. The service will launch this fall and be commercial free. “African Americans are the leading consumers of streaming services, with higher SVOD adoption rates than other consumers, which is…
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Cord Cutters Need to Rescan Their Antennas Because Some Channels Are Moving According to The FCC
A few years ago, the FCC auctioned off locals forcing many channels to switch channel numbers. This auction freed up space for things like 5G. Now the time has come for many local TV stations to switch channel numbers, meaning you need to rescan your antenna. That is in addition to all the new locals that went…
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YouTube TV Fixes Known Issues With Roku Players & The Nvidia Shield
Did you notice stuttering when streaming YouTube TV with Roku? Good news! Google says they have fixed this issue with Roku players by rolling out an update at the end of May 2019. A fix for YouTube TV on Nvidia Shield also started to roll out with the last Android TV update that should be…
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Deal Alert: CuriosityStream Is Giving Away a $10 Amazon Gift Card to New Yearly Subscribers
Miss the old Discovery Channel? We have good news for you as the Founder of the Discovery Channel has launched CuriosityStream a streaming service very similar to the old Discovery Channel. Right now for a limited time, CuriosityStream is also offering a $10 Amazon gift card when you prepay for a $19.99 yearly membership. This…