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Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna
Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air. Is this legal?
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Investors Have Growing Concern about Viacom’s Anti-Cord Cutting Stance
Earlier this year Viacom took a hard anti-cord cutting stance. It pulled its popular stations MTV, Spike TV, Comedy Central, and others from services such as Hulu and PlayStation Vue. It also decided not to strike deals with newcomers such as YouTube TV.
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Netflix Stock Has Increased In Value By 5,110% Since Adding Streaming - Streaming Observer News
Once upon a time, Netflix was just a mail order video service, famous for its red envelopes containing DVDs. And when the company went public in 2002, its stock traded for under $9 per share. Five years later, the company introduced streaming, forever changed the world of entertainment, and its stock eventually exploded. Like Apple and Microsoft, Netflix’s stock also comes standard with a “what if” question: What if I would have purchased at the IPO? Or even a year or two later?
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Cable's New Brilliant Idea: Charging You More Money To Skip Ads
We've noted for years how cable executives facing market (r)evolution just can't stop making bone-headed decisions. As cord cutting accelerates and ratings take a dive, many cable and broadcast executives have decided the solution is to stuff more ads than ever into every viewing hour, in some instances actually editing down or speeding up programs so the additional ad load will fit.
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Disney to offer two streaming services and end its movie distribution agreement with Netflix
Walt Disney Co. is ending its distribution agreement with Netflix for new releases in one of the boldest moves a traditional studio has taken against the leading digital platform.
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Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting
It has become the laziest "hot take" in technology media. Once a month or so, a writer decides to subscribe to as many streaming video services as possible. They then proudly declare that this whole cord cutting thing (ditching traditional...
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Fifth-Generation Apple TV to Include 4K Video: Report
The long-awaited 4K video feature in Apple TV is expected to be announced by Apple when it unveils its new iPhones and Apple Watches in September.
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Mayweather-McGregor outages expose limitations of streaming tech
Showtime and UFC Fight Pass both had major issues with their streams of the Mayweather-McGregor fight. And those issues demonstrate a larger problem with the promise of streaming technology.
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Report: There Will be 22.6 Million Cord Cutters By 2018
A new report indicates that the rate of cord cutting is occurring at a faster rate than previously believed. A new report by eMarketer notes that ad investment will expand just 0.5% to $71.65 billion this year, down notably from the $72.72 billion predicted in the company's original first quarter forecast for 2017. That sinking ad spending is thanks to the growing rate of cord cutting in the United States, as more and more streaming alternatives arrive on the market.
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Plex News launches to keep cord-cutters informed for free
Plex has continued to grow beyond its simple media playback roots, and today it adds another new feature that brings something extra to your library of video, music and pictures: news. Plex News builds on the acquisition of Watchup earlier this year by using a machine learning-powered system for finding news from 190+ publisher partners (including CNN, CBS and Al Jazeera) that it presents to you -- for free.
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Roku’s Fall Lineup: Faster Chips, a New 4K Stick And Almost No More Boxes
Just a few days after its successful IPO, Roku is back in the news with the introduction of its new hardware lineup. Altogether, the company is announcing five new or updated devices this fall. It …
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Roku’s Fall Lineup: Faster Chips, a New 4K Stick And Almost No More Boxes
Just a few days after its successful IPO, Roku is back in the news with the introduction of its new hardware lineup. Altogether, the company is announcing five new or updated devices this fall. It is also slowly saying goodbye to the good, old streaming box.
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Netflix raising US prices by 10 pct for most popular plan
Netflix is raising the price for its most popular U.S. video streaming plan by 10 percent— a move that could boost its profits but slow the subscriber growth that drives its stock price. The change announced Thursday affects most of Netflix’s 53 million U.S. subscribers.
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OTT Platforms: If Cable Networks Can’t Beat Them, It’s Time To Join ‘Em
Last month, Nielsen painted a rather alarming picture for cable networks. Despite an increase in the total number of TV homes, traditional cable subscriptions have continued to decline at an accelerated pace, Nielsen said. Taken in totality, this suggests a widening gap of -3.9% in cable subscription growth as a proportion of total TV homes.
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TV Stocks Tumble After AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure
The research firm eMarketer says that by the end of last year 16.7 million U.S. adults had already cut the cord and that by the end of this year it will be 22 million. A day after DirecTV parent AT&T said it would lose subscribers because people are ditching their satellite and cable television services — a phenomenon known as cord-cutting — shares of companies heavily invested in the TV industry tumbled.
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Comcast Loses 134,000 TV Subscribers as Cord Cutting Continues
Comcast's third quarter earnings report indicates that while the company managed to add 214,000 broadband subscribers last quarter, the company lost 134,000 traditional TV subscribers as the cord cutting phenomenon the industry used to claim didn't exist continues to accelerate. Comcast's earnings indicated that the company continues to see a decline in customers that bundle two or three services, and a notable spike in users interested in standalone broadband. Double and triple play users dropped by 79,000 since June to 9.919 million, while single-play customers increased by 125,000 to 8.055 million.
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Comcast and Charter Lost a Ton of Cable Customers Last Quarter
The hurricanes that hurt Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc. have passed, but investors are still waiting for the storm clouds over the cable industry to lift. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, posted the biggest loss in cable-TV customers in three years, while No. 2 provider Charter reported a drop that was almost four times what analysts had expected.
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Disney’s streaming service has won, and it hasn’t even launched yet
When you have the most important franchises in the world, nothing else matters
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Best gifts: 2017's top five TV media-streaming devices
Now, more than ever, to make the most from your TV you must include an internet streaming device with it.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch Series Moves From CW to Netflix With 20-Episode Order
The new series about Sabrina the Teenage Witch is on the move. The untitled series based on the Archie Comics character is headed to Netflix with a 20-episode, two season order. It was originally in development at The CW to serve as a companion series to fellow Archie Comics property “Riverdale.” It is unclear if the shows will still exist in the same universe given the fact they will air on different platforms. Under the new deal, Warner Bros.
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