Cordcutting Fortnightly provides readers with a collection of news in cordcutting that has occurred over the past two weeks. View last fortnight’s news. Twitter Starts New Shows After Twitter’s successful earnings call, where they beat expectations and shot the stock price up, they have continued to dive into live video as a central part of their […]
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The cordcutting field continues to grow more popular and diverse, and there continue to be news. This is a summary of the big cordcutting news that has happened this week. Boomerang Launches $5 / month streaming service You may know Boomerang as a TV channel where you can watch classic cartoons like Looney Tunes and Tom and […]
Twitter has continued to boost their live streaming capabilities through their app. In addition to sports like the NFL, they are now partnering with ESL and DreamHack, two major e-sport leagues. As e-sports continue to grow in popularity, having these deals will allow Twitter to continue becoming a major media organization. The deal will include […]
About two months ago Twitter launched a new app for the Fire TV. It was a compilation of all of their video services: Twitter’s live video partnerships with the NFL, Periscope, and the now defunct Vine. At the time of the app’s launch, it could be sideloaded to an Android TV and work exactly like […]
Twitter FireTV APK Is Android TV Compatible
If you heard about how Twitter was intending to Pivot and expand their platform to live streaming sports then you’d expect them to make it accessible on all Set top box platforms right? Well almost, but technically yes for the most part. By this I mean there’s no Android TV version officially up in the Play […]
Twitter To Livestream Baseball and Hockey
Twitter has been partnering with a variety of organizations to stream live video. They worked with NFL to stream 10 of their games and Bloomberg to stream two of their shows. Now they’ve entered in partnerships with NHL and MLB to stream games. These games will be available for free for anybody, users or not, […]
Twitter Partners with Bloomberg to Stream Shows Live
Twitter has been continuing to invest in the live streaming industry by partnering with a variety of media companies to connect content with users. They recently made a deal with Bloomberg to stream three shows live: Bloomberg West, What’d You Miss?, and With All Due Respect. This partnership will make it easier for individuals to […]
TV Design Case Study: Twit-on-TV
Twit-On-Tv was recently published on the Google Play Store and so I decided to try it out. My hope was that it would be a great way to consume byte-sized content on a TV, much like Hopwatch for Reddit. Unfortunately, after trying it out I was disappointed by the subpar experience. This article is going […]
Twitter Obtains Right to Stream 10 NFL Games
Cordcutting has been a growing trend over the past few years. Instead of paying a large amount of money for many channels that you won’t watch, you pay just for the services and programs that you want to watch. If you only watch STARZ, for example, then your bill goes from roughly $100/month to just […]