Tom Brady leads the New England Patriots to yet another AFC Championship game against the upstart Jacksonville Jaguars. Will the Patriots’ ageless quarterback solve Jacksonville’s dominating defense? Or can Blake Bortles take the Jaguars to their first ever Super Bowl? These questions will be answered on Sunday. Here’s how you can watch the game if …
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The College Football Playoff selects the four best teams to compete in a three-game playoff to decide the national championship. This year, the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl will host the semi-final games on New Year’s Day, and the National Championship game will be played a week later in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 8. In the Rose Bowl, the Oklahoma …
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It took a little more than a year for AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming video service to reach its first million. The Dallas telecommunications provider said Tuesday that more than 1 million consumers have subscribed to its service, which offers a mix of live television channels and on-demand content over the internet to your phone, tablet or TV box like a …
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It looks like “Game of Thrones” and the “Justice League” may not be heading to AT&T after all. The Department of Justice is suing to block AT&T’s pending acquisition of Time Warner, saying the $85 billion deal would concentrate too much power in one company. Time Warner is the media giant behind movie studio Warner Bros., premium cable channel HBO …
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Cutting the cable TV cord and shopping on or around Black Friday are two great ways to save money, and they go perfectly together. Whether you’re about to ditch cable TV or you never had it in the first place, chances are that you’re watching a good portion of your TV via streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video, …
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Cut out the sports, news and local channels, and suddenly live TV is cheaper than ever. A new multichannel live TV streaming service called Philo launches today, and it’s just $16 per month. That’s the least-expensive of its kind yet, undercutting former lowball champ Sling TV, which starts at $20. Philo is less than half as much as DirecTV Now, …
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YouTube TV, the $35-per-month live TV service aimed at cable cord cutters, launched in April. At the time I lauded its potential, but complained about the experience on an actual TV: namely, the need to stream using a Chromecast and a phone as the remote control. Competitors in the fast-moving TV streaming space launched with TV apps for Roku, Apple …
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AT&T can’t stop reminding people that it’s in the entertainment business now. But the reality is the company’s still in the phone business. The country’s second-largest wireless provider by subscribers added 3 million net customers in the third quarter, the company said in its earnings report on Tuesday. Roughly 2.3 million of those customers were in the US, the company’s …
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AT&T dangles HBO and the promise of “Game of Thrones” when you sign up. T-Mobile throws in Netflix for its family plan customers. Where’s the Verizon entertainment bundle? The New York telecommunications company has waded into the media world with its acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo, but those deals are more about delivering advertisements, not video. It also has an …
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Are phones getting boring? Little-known phone maker ZTE has something to say about that. The Chinese company on Tuesday introduced the Axon M, a phone that rocks two displays — one on each side — that flip open to create a larger combined screen. Is it weird? Yep. It also marks a radical departure from the slew of lookalike metal-and-glass …
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