Watch out cable TV, YouTube is coming to get you. And now it’s after your paying subscribers in Boston, Tampa, Seattle and 11 other cities. YouTube TV, Google’s live TV streaming service that costs $35 per month, is available in 14 more US cities starting Thursday. Combined with the 15 cities already served, half of …
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Hunting for a streaming TV option that doesn’t make you pay for ESPN? Viacom may be aiming to deliver. The TV company, which owns networks like Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon, is talking with rival programmers AMC and Discovery about a possible digital-TV bundle that could cost as little as $10 a month, according to a report late Monday in …
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Hulu couldn’t have picked a better time to launch its live-TV streaming service. After promising one year ago to launch a service with live-streaming TV channels within a year, Hulu made good on its vow Wednesday, rolling out a $40-a-month “skinny bundle” that adds more than 50 live channels to its Netflix-like tier for on-demand shows and movies. It doesn’t …
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Almost one out of three people who use a free trial to try out a streaming video service end up subscribing, researcher Parks Associates said Monday. That “sizeable portion” of trial users dwarfs the amount of people who abuse free try-outs, Parks senior analyst Glenn Hower said. “There is a potential for free trial abuse, but only roughly 1 percent …
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What will TV look like in the future? Will it be streaming? Will it have sports? Will it be a-la-cart, one big package, or some workaround that heads to the courts? Bad rhymes aside, the only thing that’s clear about the future of TV is that we don’t have any idea where it’s going. Hulu, for example, is readying a …
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With a new live TV service, YouTube is wagering young people are as hooked on their phones for a full TV meal as they are for video snacks. YouTube TV launches Wednesday, offering a “skinny bundle” of about 50 live TV networks online for $35 a month, starting in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco. The …
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AT&T hopes to win over fans of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” and other HBO shows with a promotion that offers access to HBO for free for a year on its new DirecTV Now streaming TV service. But there’s a catch: You’ll have to dish out the big bucks for one of the company’s most expensive streaming TV bundles to get …
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With SlingTV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV Now and traditional cable, YouTube is joining a crowded field with its new YouTube TV service. For $35 a month, YouTube is offering unlimited DVR on the cloud along with all the broadcast networks and some cable extras like FX and ESPN. With so many options out there, it’s hard to choose an online TV …
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Now playing: Watch this: Jumping on AT&T’s cheaper unlimited plan? Not so fast… 2:46 AT&T just fired the latest salvo in the unlimited data wars. The Dallas telecommunications giant unveiled two new unlimited data plans. The first is Unlimited Choice, a stripped-down plan that comes with unlimited data at a maximum speed of 3 megabits per second, standard definition, and …
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On Friday, pay television service Sling made its already affordable TV service even more so by announcing lower prices on its Extras bundles. The deal bodes well for customers not wanting to pay for channels and content they don’t watch. Sling TV is an internet service that streams live and on-demand television shows, and it was one of the first …
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