With the 2020 NFL season now into Week 14, there are plenty of options for following the most popular sport in the US. Paying up for a cable subscription is the simplest solution. It allows you to watch your local team and a bunch of others without worrying about which channels are available. For cord-cutters …
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Disney Plus will raise its US subscription price by $1 in March, bringing it to $8 a month, Disney said Thursday as it unleashed a flood of news about its streaming services at a four-hour event. Disney laid out plans for as many as 20 new Marvel and Star Wars series, promised to let animation fans stream animated fantasy Raya and the …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Today is Election Day. While millions of Americans have already voted, millions more are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. We probably won’t know the winner before going …
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T-Mobile, best known as a company that you pay for phone service, is gunning for your TV now, too. Its revamped TVision service comes out Nov. 1 and offers packages of familiar TV channels that you stream live. It’s a direct competitor to not only traditional cable TV but also to a bunch of other similar services like YouTube TV, Sling TV and Hulu …
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from their first World Series championship in 32 years. The Dodgers won Game 5 on Sunday behind a strong start from Clayton Kershaw and three-plus shutout innings from its bullpen. The Tampa Bay Rays will try to extend the series to a full seven games and win Games 6 and 7, a …
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Attention cord-cutters, the battle for your live TV streaming dollar got a bit more interesting. TVision from T-Mobile is getting a radical redesign and a nationwide launch as it looks to take on cable companies and streaming TV services such as YouTube TV, Sling TV and Hulu Plus Live TV. The original TVision service, which launched in April 2019, was …
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Beginning Friday, Hulu With Live TV will no longer offer several Sinclair-owned regional sports networks, including more than a dozen Fox regional sports networks as well as the YES Network, home of the New York Yankees, and the Marquee Sports Network, which airs Chicago Cubs games. The streaming network reportedly sent a message to customers, saying it was “unable to reach an …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Get ready for a night of political firsts. Tonight’s debate will be the first and only one between the two vice presidential candidates, Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris, herself the first Black woman and the first …
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HBO, the jewel of AT&T’s $85 billion takeover of WarnerMedia, overhauled its various apps Saturday. What was once three — HBO Go, HBO Now and the newer, big-budget HBO Max — is now winnowed down to just two: Max remains, and Now became a renamed app simply called HBO. For a change that AT&T claims would simplify matters, streaming HBO is more …
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Live TV streaming services promise a cord-cutter’s delight. They’re typically cheaper than a cable TV subscription with similar channel lineups and no need to sign a contract, so you can cancel anytime. Unfortunately they also suffer one of cable TV’s major flaws: constant price hikes. My former favorite such service and CNET’s Editors’ Choice, YouTube TV, announced a monthly increase of …
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