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Amazon Music will be integrated for the first time by a pay-TV provider through a new deal with Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex services. The streaming music service will roll out on Comcast over the coming weeks on X1, which serves two-thirds of Comcast’s 21 million U.S. cable households, as well as on its…

Comcast has launched a feature enabling viewers with physical disabilities like spinal cord injuries or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) the ability to navigate their television using only their eyes. Xfinity X1 eye control is a web-based remote for tablets and computers that pairs with an existing eye gaze system…

Call it a bundle within a bundle. Viacom’s Pluto TV, a free, ad-supported streaming offering with more than 100 live and curated channels from a range of programmers, is expanding to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform. Comcast, the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, has said that X1 accounts for more than two-thirds of its total…

Comcast and Amazon have announced that Prime Video service will launch over the next week on Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform, a higher tier of service that is now the choice of most of the company’s 22 million video subscribers. Prime joins Netflix, YouTube, TubiTV and a host of other digital offerings alongside…

Comcast and the Fox Networks Group have settled a high-profile carriage dispute over the Big Ten Network ahead of the September 1 end of the current contract and on the eve of college football season. Under the new deal, Comcast will continue carrying the network and the companies also reached an agreement for Comcast…

FX is expanding the scope of its ad-free programming hub, FX+, making it available to all of its 90 million U.S. subscribers. Previously, it had been an add-on option only for Comcast and Cox cable customers. The announcement came as the Fox-owned (for now) network kicked off its day of presentations at TCA summer…

Comcast and Netflix have expanded a partnership that will provide Comcast the ability to include a Netflix subscription in new and existing Xfinity packages. Comcast launched the Netflix service on the X1 platform in 2016, offering customers voice control and seamless access to the Netflix service. "Netflix offers one…

Irish drama Striking Out, the BBC comedy Detectorists, and the Aussie period drama A Place To Call Home are among the shows now available to US customers as Acorn TV, the largest North American SVOD specializing in British and international TV, makes its set-top box debut with Xfinity TV/Comcast. Xfinity On Demand and…

Comcast Xfinity X1 customers will soon be able to access NPR directly on their TV sets. Comcast and National Public Radio are launching the NPR app on X1 which enables customers to access NPR content by simply saying “NPR” in the X1 voice remote. NPR content also will be integrated into Xfinity on Demand menus…

It’s that time of every fourth year again — the Winter Olympics start this week from PyeongChang, South Korea. For fans of the human drama of athletic competition, here’s a detailed guide on how to watch the games on TV and online. If you’ve got one of those old-fangled television machines, you’re golden; NBC is…

In a synergistic campaign around the return of Will & Grace , NBC parent Comcast is making an original, behind-the-scenes companion series available on its X1 cable platform as well as its YouTube channel. Inside Stage 22 with Max and David, an Xfinity Originals Series, is named after the studio where the sitcom is…

Comcast customers who want to watch AMC Networks’ programming on-demand both in and out of home, and without ads, now have a new extra-pay option: They can pay $4.99 a month for a package called AMC Premiere. It has a soft launch today offering current season shows, with new episodes available simultaneously with live…