General news
NEW YORK, NY -- Media projections for the annual This Year, Next Year reports have shown that TV Ad growth has been steady in the US and the UK. However, by the same reports, it would seem that ad revenue...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Comcast and DISH drop sports programming due to higher costs as cord-cutting becomes more popular with users. With recent news on push backs against sports content, it suggests that cord-cutting is causing satellite TV and cable TV...
LONDON, United Kingdom – As 4Q2019 draws to a close, cord cutting has started to show signs of losing momentum. According to a recent report, the amount of pay TV users have stabilized somewhat in the past year, as opposed...
LOS GATOS, Calif. - With the most common question about the most popular live TV streaming services, Roku has named their top three. According to Roku, the top three live streaming services in the US are Hulu, YouTube TV,...
LOS GATOS, California - Owners of Roku TVs and players have been asking Roku for web browsers since its first few iterations, and such requests intensified with frequency with the announcement of Amazon’s official web browser. To fulfill this request,...
LOS GATOS, Calif. - Sadly for those planning to subscribe, Netflix ends 30-day trial offers to all its new customers worldwide. Unfortunately for millions of new subscribers from all over the world, there won’t be any complimentary service from Netflix...
DALLAS, Texas - In October of 2019, it was revealed that AT&T intends to invest $2 billion to produce content for HBO Max come 2020. After this primary investment, AT&T is to commit an additional $1 billion, to be parcelled...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Subscribers will have access to Amazon videos now on Chromecast dongles, months after Amazon, and Google decided to end their long-running dispute. The conflict between Amazon and Google started several years ago when Amazon declined to...
NEW YORK, New York – The merging of Viacom and CBS on December 4th into ViacomCBS will result in eight streaming services clustered under one parent company. What follows is an assessment of the eight services that will be under...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Pluto TV added three channels to their lineup to keep the holiday spirit going for all their subscribers after the Thanksgiving holiday is over and done with. Pluto TV wants to help all their users get...
NEW YORK, New York – NBA’s TV ratings continue to decline as December comes. Analysts consider this to be one of the most alarming developments in the league’s broadcast history. When audience figures were last gauged on November 22, NBA...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - DISH demands subscriber names, telling IPTV sellers to hand them over so they can send their subscribers a demand letter. TV users who have subscribed to some of the popular IPTV services such as OF2, Vader Streams,...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - With this week’s confirmation that Comcast is going through with their previously announced price hike in mid-December, Comcast subscribers are set to pay $169 annually in order to rent Comcast’s stock modem and Wi-Fi router. Luckily, subscribers...
LOS GATOS, Calif. - Some old Netflix accounts reactivated by hackers without their permission, former Netflix users have warned. Streaming service users who had a previous subscription to Netflix are warning people that old accounts on the streaming service may...
AMSTELVEEN, Netherlands -- The “streaming wars" are seeing new challengers in the form of legacy media companies such as Comcast entering the fray in recent months. With this development comes a new market survey which shows substantial evidence that consumers,...
BURBANK, Calif. - Since its launch from around two weeks ago, Disney+ soars into new heights in the streaming industry. Disney+ started out great since its launch date, excluding the technical glitches the service experienced during the first day. On...
PLEASANTON, CA – SiliconDust’s HDHomeRun EXTEND Tuner with Dual OTA, known for allowing viewers to watch and record simultaneously (or watch or record two channels at once), is available for $139 at Newegg, and $140 on Amazon. This Black Friday...
SAN MATEO, Calif. - PlayStation Vue takes off on-demand section and search from some of their devices. For subscribers of the PlayStation Vue still hanging around the service until it shuts down, which is set to discontinue their service on...
SEATTLE, WA – Black Friday comes at an opportune time for cable subscribers seeking to cut the cord following the recent price hikes. Amazon’s top media streaming devices have had their prices slashed up to 50% off. All Fire TV...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Comcast broadcast TV hikes up the price again, expected to raise its subscription price to about 50% more starting on December 18. Comcast recently gave a statement on their plans for a nationwide hike, citing reasons for...
DALLAS, TX – Recently, AT&T has been reporting a decrease in their TV subscriber figures; however, they expressed that they still had faith a turnaround was coming. As it stands, AT&T TV NOW, alongside DIRECTV NOW and U-Verse TV, are...
LOS GATOS, Calif. - Netflix announced content deal with JTBC Content Hub, a known producer in Korea, which marks the second news within the week announcing such pact. With the content deal, Netflix and JTBC will join forces in developing...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Hulu had announced recently that there would be a $10 price hike to the monthly subscription cost of their Hulu with Live TV service. Hulu's limited ad and ad-free subscription plans will not experience a price...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - AT&T released its earnings report for quarter three, showing AT&T TV NOW subscribers count down by about 37% in just 12 months. Based on the reports AT&T released, the streaming services have already lost over 195,000...
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado – Amidst a cord-cutting trend in which more than 3 million subscribers have cancelled their subscriptions to pay-TV services, DISH Network has turned to alternate avenues that can help mitigate their substantial losses to cord-cutting. Being a smaller,...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - AT&T TV NOW DVR updates are set to roll out this week after AT&T announced last month on the updates they are planning, informing grandfathered customers that they are going to lose their access to the...
IRVINE, California – VIZIO SmartCast TVs released since 2016 are getting a major update, mainly dealing in speed optimizations and added features. The update, dubbed the SmartCast 3.5 update, improves load and startup times for affected devices, as well as...
BELLEVUE, Wash. - T-Mobile TV supposedly launched in 2019 still has no updates about the service, whether it’s still in the works or dead. T-Mobile announced last year that they are going to launch a new TV service they named...
SEATTLE, Washington – Amazon had recently unveiled the Fire TV Blaster, an addon for Fire Smart TVs that will enable users to control their cale box, A/V receiver, soundbar, and TV with voice commands. The Fire TV Blaster is essentially...
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - Clarksville Department of Electricity (CDE) Lightband unveils a new channel streaming service to give more options in terms of traditional video offerings for those wanting to cut the cord. CDE Lightband has already started is promotions for...
