Tag: nickelodeon

YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative

On Tuesday, Google’s YouTube TV announced a monthly $15 price hike, bringing its streaming package of channels to $64.99 monthly, from $49.99. “YouTube TV is now the most expensive of the cable TV streaming alternative services,” notes USA Today. “When YouTube TV launched in 2017, it was $35.” From the report: In a company blog post, YouTube defended its decision by…

Instagram Users Flood the App With Millions of Blackout Tuesday Posts

Instagram users are flooding the platform with black squares in support of black victims of police violence as part of a Blackout Tuesday protest. CNBC reports: As of 11:45 a.m. ET, more than 14.6 million Instagram posts used the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. Searches for “blackout tuesday image” and “blackout image” surged 400% Tuesday morning, according to Google Trends. The idea of an…

ViacomCBS Plan Would Unify All of Star Trek In One New Streaming Service

According to CNBC, ViacomCBS is planning the launch of a new streaming service that would expand upon the already successful CBS All Access with films from Paramount Studios and Miramax, plus TV program from networks like MTV and Comedy Central. As Ars Technica points out, both Star Trek films (Viacom) and TV series (CBS) would likely appear on this new service….

Apple Begins Pulling Creepy, Unlicensed Disney and Nickelodeon Games from App Store

Laura June, reporting for Input: Two days after Input reported that there were hundreds of unofficial — often disturbing — knock-off Disney and Nickelodeon gaming apps aimed at children in Apple’s App Store, the company has begun removing the apps from the store. Some of the games found had been available for longer than a year. It remains unclear — partially…