Today, Diamond Sports, the parent company of Bally Sports RSNs, announced a deal a deal that will allow it to exit bankruptcy. With this deal, Amazon will become a minority investor in Diamond...

Today Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that they will move Adult Swim up to 6 pm. This announcement was made during the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront event talking to the press and advertisers....

Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount could have a new CEO as soon as its board is looking at removing Bob Bakish from his leadership role and replacing it with a committee of top...

Paramount+ and Peacock have started talks to merge into a single streaming service, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report said that Comcast and Paramount recently met to look...

One of the main complaints many customers have is how do you cancel something you signed up for. It can be easy to start a subscription, but figuring out how to cancel it is confusing at best...

This month marks 15 years since The Office first appeared on TV. To celebrate, why not binge watch 15 hours of the classic sitcom? Dish Network will pay one super fan $1000 to watch 15 hours of The...

Earlier this week YouTube TV announced that they will be dropping Sinclair Owned Fox Sports Networks on February 29th. Now YouTube has announced that Sicnair and Google have reached a short term...

Do you miss the ability to quickly jump back to the last channel you watched? Now, YouTube TV has added the ability to quickly jump back to the last channel you watched, making watching sports...

Earlier this year, we learned that Paramount+ would be merging with SHOWTIME. Now we have learned the date for when this merger will happen thanks to Apple. Here is an email being sent to subscribers...

Starting on January 1, 2020, the over the air network MeTV will be adding even more classic TV favorites to their lineup with The Waltons, Adam-12, and Dragnet taking their places on the weekday...

Paramount+ and Peacock have started talks to merge into a single streaming service, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report said that Comcast and Paramount recently met to...

One of YouTube TV’s best features is the ability to offer the option to watch up to four sporting or news events at once on the same screen. The only downside has been the fact that customers have...

With the ViacomCBS merger last year, the companies combined their respective channels to create a strong portfolio that includes BET, Comedy Central, VH1, Nickelodeon, MTV, and more. Now, the merged...

Back in December, Disney+ launched a beta version of the merger with Hulu. With this beta test, you could find Disney+ and Hulu content in a single place as a part of the Hulu beta launch inside the...

Are you looking to save money on your streaming bills? You may want to consider giving free ad-supported streaming services a second chance. Not only can they save you money, but the quality of their...

Viewership across the top networks is falling fast as cord-cutters jumping from traditional linear television to streaming platforms.

Great news for sports fans. Today, YouTube TV announced it will now let you reduce the broadcast delay. This means you will be able to see what is happening with sports even faster. The catch is,...

AT&T yesterday gave an update on a plan to eliminate dead areas by using a combination of towers and satellites powered by AST to offer wireless phone service to all phones from space. This satellite...

Free ad-supported streaming services are one of the fastest-growing areas in cord cutting. FOX owns Tubi, Paramount owns Pluto TV, NBC Universal has Xumo Play, and Warner Bros. Discovery is launching...

Earlier today, we reported that Google was testing letting customers pick what games would be in your multiview experience. Now Google has confirmed to Cord Cutters News that you can now customize...

Amazon plans to shut down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming video service, according to AdWeek. Update: Amazon called the AdWeek report inaccurate, and said there were no changes to Freevee....

2024 marks 10 years since I launched Cord Cutters News. A lot has changed over those 10 years, including selling the site and buying it back. Now, as we get ready for the next 10 years, we are making...

One of the last things saving cable TV right now are the millions of people forced to pay for cable TV and Internet through cable companies because they live in an apartment or condo that has a...

Are you ready for more sports on your TV? Warner Bros. Discovery is overhauling TruTV with a heavy focus on sports according to a report from Variety. This comes as increasingly what people are still...

One of YouTube TV’s most popular features is the ability to watch multiple channels at once with multiview. With this feature, you can watch up to four channels at once, meaning you can catch four...

Christmas is here and that means a huge day for the NFL and NBA. Now YouTube TV for the first time, is making it easy to watch both NFL and NBA games at the same time with Multiview. In the past...

Back in January, Diamond Sports, the parent company of Bally Sports RSNs, announced a deal that would allow it to exit bankruptcy. With this deal, Amazon will become a minority investor in Diamond...

Over the last year, Disney has talked a few times about offering ESPN as a stand-alone service. At first, they said it was just a what-if for someday down the road. Now according to the Wall Street...

Is there a new movie coming out that you want to see? Are you planning on going to your local movie theater or will you wait for it to come to a streaming service like Disney+, Max, or Paramount+ to...

About an hour ago DIRECTV NOW went down according to reports for our readers. The outage seems to be scattered through parts of the Midwest, Northeast, East, and West coast of the United States. Some...

Roku announced today that it has acquired global content distribution rights for Quibi content. The Roku Channel will become the exclusive streaming home to over 75 shows and documentaries created...

It has been four years since Pluto TV last updated its logo, and now we are finally getting a new and very different logo. Long gone is the bold white lettering and multi-colored logo. Now, Pluto TV...

Pluto TV is once again adding to its free channel lineup. On November 24, Pluto TV will be bringing six more channels to its platform, adding over 60 seasons of classic TV series. Here are the...

Earlier this year, we learned that Disney was building a streaming service and planned to offer ESPN as a stand alone direct-to-consumer streaming option. Now Disney’s CEO says he is open to selling...

After months of negotiations, and some last minute back and forth, Roku and NBCUniversal have come to an agreement for Peacock to be made available on Roku devices. With the new deal, NBC content...

Recently Pluto TV has been adding new channels bringing it’s total channel count to 244, all of them free. This is up from just over 200 Pluto TV channels back in September 2019. This comes as Viacom...

Over the last 48 hours, Roku has slowly been rolling out a mandatory update to its terms of service. In this terms it changes the dispute resolution terms but it is not clear exactly why. When the...

fuboTV and Disney Media Networks announced today a distribution agreement to add Disney’s lineup of channels to fuboTV’s streaming platform. Beginning this summer, fuboTV’s Standard base package...

Today the progressive online news program TYT announced its 24/7 news channel will be available on Samsung TV Plus. Now you can watch TYT’s highly rated, progressive shows like The Young Turks hosted...

Yesterday Warner Bros. Discovery held its annual upfront event for the press and advertisers. During that event, we learned some new details about HBO Max’s plans to rebrand to Max next week. Today...

Today Disney announced that it now has added 10 million new subscribers since it launched. This would make Disney+ one of the fastest-growing streaming services ever. The Disney+ app is now available...

Rumors are spreading around social media, with YouTube TV subscribers saying NFL Network and a new sports add-on will be added to the streaming service ahead of the start of the NFL season. Subscri...

Even as cord cutters embrace streaming and a move away from old-fashioned cable TV plans, they’re also increasingly looking at something even older: an over-the-air TV antenna. Twenty percent of U.S....

Want to win a TCL Roku TV & a Mohu Antenna? Right now TCL is celebrating national Cut the Cord Day by giving away 103 Roku TVs & Mohu Antennas.  Update: TCL just confirmed to Cord Cutters News that...

A new law has finally stopped TV providers from charging customers a monthly fee for equipment that the customers have purchased on their own. ARS Technica first reported on this law that will affect...

Apple TV+ is getting ready for the holiday season by adding a slew of themed programs to its offerings, including a chance for non-members to catch Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang celebrating the...

Some Hulu subscribers are receiving emails inviting them to take a survey to gauge their interest in a potential new plan with fewer live channels and a lower price point. The survey introduction...

Today YouTube TV added full DVR Controls to CBS owned channels. No longer will you be forced to view the on-demand versions of programs from CBS, Smithsonian Channel, and Pop TV. This means you can...

Earlier this month, Cord Cutters News surveyed over 2,000 of our readers about how they cut the cord. From the Fall survey, Roku is the clear leader in the world of cord cutting and is almost twice...

For years, even before Elon Musk bought Twitter, now called X, has worked to take on YouTube. Now, according to a report from the NY Post, as soon as next week, X will launch an app on streaming...

Disney is making a lot of moves recently to make its streaming services profitable. Just this week, Disney announced plans to raise the price of Disney+, Hulu, Hulu + Live TV, and ESPN+. Now Bob Iger...

For some time now we have heard that Google was aiming to buy rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket when its contract expires after the 2021-2022 season. Over the weekend, YouTube’s head of product was...

Yesterday, the Federal Communication Commission approved a set of proposed rules that will require satellite and cable TV providers to clearly list all prices, including fees, for their TV service as...

2023 was a tough year for cable TV companies, as over 6.9 million American households canceled cable and satellite TV. Some of the heaviest hit TV companies include Comcast, which lost over 2...

Are you on the go and don’t have access to your YouTube TV app? Maybe you are on a device like a Fire Tablet without an official YouTube TV app. Good news you can use your YouTube TV login to access...

Recently Pluto TV has been adding new channels bringing it’s total channel count to 247, all of them free. This is up from just over 200 Pluto TV channels back in September 2019. This comes as Viacom...

Charter Communication’s Spectrum and Disney will bring back ESPN, FX and a few other channels back to the cable providers’ line up after the two sides struck an agreement to end a 12-day blackout....

Some Amazon Prime customer were angry enough at Prime Video’s introduction of ads that decided to take legal action. The retail giant is facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed on Friday that...

In 2019, a growing number of companies announced plans to launch new home Internet services. Now in 2020, we are seeing these services become a reality. Some of these new Internet providers are...

For some time now, there have been talk that Paramount has been looking for other merger or sale options. Now, it is being reported that Paramount is in talks with Warner Bros Discovery for a...

Warner Bros. Discovery’s new President of Feature Animation, Bill Damaschke, recently announced the company’s motion picture division will rebrand to put more emphasis on filmmakers. “It’s honoring...

X, formerly Twitter, may soon be more expensive to use, if an Elon Musk teases is to be believed. Musk raised the idea of charging all users of X in the middle of a conversation with Israeli Prime...

Nova Labs turned heads in August when it unveiled Helium Mobile, a $5-a-month 5G wireless service that was partly powered by crowd-sourced mini-towers that offered cryptocurrency as a reward. Helium...

Recently, we learned that Warner Bros. Discovery and Skydance Media are both in talks to buy a majority control of Paramount. Now, the New York Post has reported that Shari Redstone, the majority...

Today Sony announced that PlayStation Vue is shutting down on January 30th, 2020. This news comes after it was reported that Sony had tried to find someone to buy the service earlier this year. Now...

One of the fastest growing areas in cord cutting if free ad-supported streaming services. Pluto TV has been on of the leaders in this market and was one of the original free services to really...

Last month, Walt Disney’s ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new streaming bundle that will offer 16 live sports channels and none of the non-sports related channels. Early reports had...

A few months ago Disney announced that Hulu was the fastest growing live TV streaming service. Now a new report from MoffettNathanson supports that claim by reporting that Hulu recently added over...

Next month will be the start of my seventh year as a cord cutter, and that move led to the launch of Cord Cutters News. My goal at the beginning was to offer a positive look at cord cutting. It was...

In more bad news for traditional pay-TV owners, in the third quarter 2017 over a million Americans canceled their pay-TV service; however, we are still waiting for two pay-TV services to report, so...

Do you miss the ability to quickly jump back to the last channel you watched? In December, we broke the news that YouTube TV had started to add the ability to quickly jump back to the last channel...

Cable companies are busy reporting their subscriber numbers and once again we see a new flood of cord cutters. According to Evercore ISI analyst Vijay Jayant, who looked at all the reports, about...

Late last week President Trump signed a spending bill that included a provision to ban hidden fees on cable providers as part of a spending bill. These reforms will go into effect six months from now...

Note: This post is in partnership with Sling TV. Back in June, Sling TV removed NFL Network and NFL Redzone from its lineup when it was unable to come to an agreement on distribution terms with NFL...

Pluto TV now offers over 100 live TV channels, including content from CNN, CBS, Paramount, Nickelodeon, and other networks for free. So could this be a replacement for cable TV allowing you to save...

One of the most common questions we get is what is the best live TV streaming service. So, as part of our Cordie Awards, which asks our readers to vote on the best cord cutting devices and services,...