The Matrix may be resurrecting today, but the era of same-day streaming is dying out just a year after it was born. On Wednesday, the Matrix franchise’s long-anticipated revival, The Matrix Resurrections, landed in theaters and on HBO Max. That caps a year of unprecedented availability for new movies, with Matrix’s maker, AT&T’s WarnerMedia, being the …
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YouTube TV, Google’s popular live-channel streaming service, was set to lose access to all channels from Comcast’s NBCUniversal late Thursday, but the two companies have reached a new carriage agreement to replace the one that was originally set to expire on Friday night. The news was announced over the weekend, after the two parties agreed to a temporary extension. “We’re …
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Amazon Prime Video will exclusively stream live-action movies from Universal’s film studios about eight months after they hit theaters and four months after they stream exclusively on rival service Peacock first, according to a complex new licensing deal between Amazon and NBCUniversal announced Thursday. The deal joins others confirming how the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed big-screen movie release cycles, …
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The Stanley Cup Finals continue tonight as the Montreal Canadiens battle the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5. The Lightning took the first three games before the Canadiens made it a series by winning Game 4 in Montreal. Now the action moves back to Tampa Bay where the Canadiens hope to build momentum (and stave off elimination) with a second win. …
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NBCUniversal is looking to give its Peacock streaming service a boost, so it’s sending WWE into the ring. The wrestling giant and the NBC-focused streamer announced on Monday that they’ve reached a multiyear deal in which Peacock will become the exclusive streaming home of the WWE Network in the US. The WWE will join Peacock starting on March 18, beginning a rollout …
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NBC’s new streaming service Peacock launched in July and is packed with TV shows, movies, live sports, news and original series — much of which you can watch for free with ads, unlike competitors Netflix and Hulu. The free tier cuts you off from Peacock’s most coveted programming, like newer movies and its originals. But whether or not these titles matter …
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Roku still doesn’t have HBO Max’s streaming app. Peacock streams free shows and movies but not on Amazon Fire TV. And T-Mobile just rolled out its own live-channel streaming service, TVision — but Roku users, again, are out of luck. These gaps in app support used to be rare on streaming devices. This year, they’ve cropped up with nearly every …
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If you’re running out of stuff to watch on Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime, now is the perfect time to widen your streaming horizon. A bunch of new services have come online recently, including Apple TV Plus, Quibi and HBO Max, and the latest is called Peacock. Owned by NBC, it has tons of familiar shows and movies, including all seven seasons of both …
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The battle between Roku and Comcast over Peacock is expanding, with the telecom and media giant now asking Roku to pull NBC apps from its streaming TVs and devices. On Friday, Comcast asked Roku to remove NBC TV Everywhere apps from its platform. According to Variety, 46 apps could be affected, including the main NBC app. Comcast owns NBCUniversal, which …
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Peacock, the free streaming service from Comcast‘s NBCUniversal that launched on July 15, is finally coming to Roku. After news broke that NBCUniversal’s other apps on Roku were going to be removed from the streaming platform on Friday, the two sides were able to finally reach a deal. As part of the deal, those apps — which include the main NBC app — …
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