You can watch NFL games three nights a week and, of course, Sunday afternoons. Games are broadcast on CBS and Fox on Sunday afternoons, NBC on Sunday nights and ESPN on Monday nights. A Thursday night game is on the NFL Network each week, but five will be simulcast on CBS, followed by another five on NBC. (For the record: CNET …
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President Donald Trump‘s threat to pull NBC’s broadcaster’s licenses, in response to a report he called “fake news,” has First Amendment hawks lining up. But could he really do it? Not without a lot of effort, say experts. “Anyone can file a challenge with the FCC to the renewal of a broadcast license,” said Glen Robinson, a former FCC commissioner …
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The fall season sees the return to Hulu of lots of popular shows like “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Mindy Project” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” Fox’s reality-cooking show “Hell’s Kitchen” also returns for its 17th edition. Spoiler: Some chefs will be hopelessly outclassed and Gordon Ramsay will yell at whatever he perceives as incompetence. Some older shows are coming …
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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 the households in America can …
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Now playing: Watch this: What’s it like to use YouTube TV? We go hands-on 1:55 The free version of YouTube is an internet behemoth visited by 1.5 billion viewers worldwide each month, but the pay version, with more than 40 channels of live TV, is only available to a fraction of the US population. That fraction just got a lot …
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The first of June sees a huge amount of movies hitting Hulu’s streaming catalog. Let’s highlight just some of them (well, because there’s a full list below — so why highlight all of them?). Way back in 1983, Michael Keaton starred in “Mr. Mom.” A lot of the jokes are pretty dated by today’s standards. However, it does have some …
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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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It’s only natural for a potential cord-cutter to think, “Why do I need cable when I can just stream everything online?” Indeed, most of the major networks — from ABC to TNT — have web portals and mobile apps, all of them capable of streaming their current shows. Just one problem: Once you ditch cable or satellite or whatever “traditional” …
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Sling TV is ready for baseball season. The internet TV service on Thursday said it will be adding NBC Regional Sports Networks to the streaming service in select markets. Sports fans in California, Chicago and Mid-Atlantic markets will soon have access to CSN California, CSN Bay Area, CSN Chicago, or CSN Mid-Atlantic networks. The channels will be available for free …
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What do you get for the US president who has everything? According to one report, the perfect present might be a wanted man who’s living in Russia to avoid being tried on charges of espionage and theft. Russia is considering sending Edward Snowden back to the US as a gift for President Donald Trump, NBC reported Friday. The report cites …
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