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In self-reliant/conservative media circles, we know that Rush is the king of Radio monologues and Hannity owns Television interviews.  But now there’s a fast-growing new guy on the block who I think is the odds-on favorite to lead the Internet TV and podcast expert dialogue format. His name is Bill Mitchell, and the political operatives he’s in on-line conversation with (one-hour shows Monday-to Saturday) are the sharpest minds in the political business – and that fits quite well with the content FReepers love. It’s no surprise that the Left-leaning Wikipedia has ignored Bill Mitchell altogether.  For the longest time,...

As of this past week, the popular TVAddons website — and their large Fusion super repository — is down. Many of the addons that TVAddons had collected, including Exodus and Phoenix, also took a hit. These recent events have left many Kodi users scrambling to find some great alternatives to the popular and highly-relied-upon TVAddons. The good news is that TVAddons is not the only place to locate many great addons. Here are several TVAddons replacement repositories that will get you some (but not all) of the addons you’re looking for.

Dish's grand experiment is called Sling TV, and before going on, we need to point out that it has very little to do with the Sling brand you may already be familiar with. There's no direct partnership with Slingbox or Sling Media, though both it and Dish are beneath a single parent company, EchoStar. So right off the bat, it's a somewhat confusing name that Dish maybe could've done better with. Another thing: though this is a service designed by and coming from Dish, you wouldn't know it without being told. The satellite provider's own logo is nowhere to be...

I have an old laptop connected to my TV to share my network and wifi. Is there a set top box that would allow me to access my network and internet with surfing ability? The boxes I see seem to be limited to Hulu and Netflix but not able to look at my hard drive in the other room. If I wanted music or films stored on the bed room puter, is that possible with a set top box? I wouldn't do away with my laptop unless I could get the same service as the laptop. Also, what if I...

Speaking at a gathering of digital advertisers in New York City last night, Mr Schmidt refused to forecast when internet video would displace television, instead declaring: "That's already happened." "It's not a replacement for something that we know," he added. "It's a new thing that we have to think about, to program, to curate and build new platforms." YouTube recently surpassed the milestone of a billion unique users a month. Only the Google search engine and social network Facebook are frequented more often by those browsing the internet worldwide. However, the video site lags behind traditional television in the UK,...

Most television will be streamed over the Internet in the coming years, said Anthony Wood, CEO of Roku, maker of the streaming TV device of the same name. The question is how Internet-delivered content will get to your TV and who will deliver it, Wood told CNBC's Squawk on the Street. Right now, set-top devices like Roku and Apple TV and Internet-enabled Smart TVs are best positioned to take advantage of the sea change, said Wood. "Those are the two ways that most people are going to be watching television that's distributed over the Internet," said Wood. In the set-top...

Can anyone help me with a Vizio Razor that won't connect to the internet? Vizio has been no help during the past 60 days of calls. On my 2nd TV and still no luck getting it connected to my network. Now they want me to replace my router or send back both tv sets with no refund offered.

I tuned in to Glenn Beck's radio show this morning to hear him telling listeners how down and disappointed he is that not one, NOT ONE media outlet reported on the Puerto Rico Statehood Bill HR 2499 debate that was to be taken up in Congress today. Left unsaid by Glenn was any mention of Faux News, but to my ears, the omission was deafening. It's evident that Glenn's not ready to cut that cord yet. And thank goodness for that, because we need him telling us what's going on. God knows NO ONE ELSE is doing the research...

NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. (T) is launching an Internet TV service where subscribers can watch live cable channels such as Fox News on any computer with a broadband connection for $20 per month. The AT&T Broadband TV service announced Tuesday features about 20 channels of live and made-for-broadband content. The channel lineup includes the History Channel, the Weather Channel, the Food Network, Bloomberg and Oxygen. Additional channels will be added soon, the company said without elaborating. The content is being provided by MobiTV Inc., a company that has specialized in delivering live cable channels to cell phones through...

CHICAGO, March 9 (UPI) -- Newton Minnow once famously called television a "vast wasteland." Referring to the mix of action-adventure programming, situation comedies, variety shows, quiz shows and cheap movies, Minnow, who at the time was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, also told TV executives he was not convinced that viewers' "taste is as low as some of you assume."One rightly wonders what Minnow, who was speaking of the nascent TV business in 1961, would think of the fare being offered by today's Internet protocol television, also known as IPTV. A flurry of deals in the past two months...