Out of all the options for streaming TV shows and movies, Hulu is one of the heavy-hitters, and for good reason. I don’t have cable, but with a Hulu subscription, new episodes of current shows are uploaded to the platform quickly, so I can still keep up despite having cut the cord. In addition to …
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Looking to slow the spread of disinformation about the novel coronavirus, YouTube is expanding its fact-checking feature so it’ll now appear in search results for US audiences, the company said Tuesday. The feature, a box that shows up atop YouTube search results when a user is looking for particular information, launched in India and Brazil last year. For the feature to …
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Fox on Monday said it has completed its acquisition of Tubi, a free video-streaming service, for around $440 million. The companies announced the acquisition last month. Tubi is an ad-supported video streaming site with over 20,000 movies and TV shows. It works with more than 250 content partners, including Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. In February, the service said its monthly active users hit 25 million in …
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Movie ticketing company Fandango confirmed on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Walmart to acquire TV and movie streaming service Vudu. In an email to CNET, a Fandango spokesperson said the companies expect the deal to close in the next few months. Vudu customers won’t experience any disruption to their Vudu libraries, a Walmart spokesperson told CNET. Customers’ …
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If you’ve read that the rate of US cord cutting is about to speed up and also about to slow down, don’t feel confused; It’s all in the nuances of what is no longer a simple household decision to “stick it to the man.” Now playing: Watch this: We’re obsessed with broadband and streaming at home…. 15:57 Bruce Leichtman is principal …
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During quarantine, my wife and I are rewatching Community on Netflix as our kids watch it for the first time, and we cannot recommend Letterkenny on Hulu highly enough. (We would advise kid-free viewing for the latter.) We picked up Community in part to replace our weekly dose of Saturday Night Live, a family favorite, which is why there was …
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With no March Madness, can I interest you in a bit of April Absurdity? The NCAA basketball tournament is canceled and the NBA season is on hold, but hoop fans can fill the roundball void with a virtual NBA 2K20 tournament. And not just any NBA 2K tournament you might find on Twitch. For one thing, 16 current NBA players, …
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Disney Plus has surpassed 50 million subscribers in the five months since it launched, the company said Wednesday. By comparison, Netflix — the biggest subscription video service in the world — had 167 million global subscribers as of the end of last year. That’s three times the size of Disney Plus now, but Netflix began streaming more than a decade ago. Disney Plus …
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For a lot of people, Blu-ray’s day has come and gone. It’s not hard to see why — streaming services have made the concept of inserting a plastic disc in a machine to watch Birds of Prey seem as archaic as my old 400-disc audio CD carousel (and if you’re too young to remember such things, yes, they were real …
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WarnerMedia has appointed a new CEO. Effective May 1, Jason Kilar will take the helm. Kilar was the founding CEO of Hulu and served in the chief executive role until 2013. He was also SVP at Amazon, according to a statement out Wednesday. WarnerMedia owns HBO, among others. “Stories well told have always mattered, and they matter even more in …
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