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StreamingTVGuides is moving the website changelog to this WordPress-based blog. For anyone interested, here’s the current history of StreamingTVGuides.com. New updates will be provided through posts to the “Updates” Category. Over time, these historic updates posts may be changed to individual posts with back-dated post dates.
I received a heads up from “Mark” that Sling TV added the Fuse channel for all Orange and Blue subscribers.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/fuse-multicultural-entertainment-sling-tv/
DirectTV Now added Aspire TV and Up Family TV, so I added them to the Go Big lineup.
I also went through all the lineups and made some minor corrections here and there.
Still working on adding OTA and OTT channels…
https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/directv-now-adds-two-new-channels-2/
I received a nicely written email from “Lori” that had some really good feedback about the new “Jump To” feature, so I made a couple of quick updates.
First is that while 4 hour blocks makes the list a bit longer, it just works better than 6 hour blocks since the grid displays 4 hour blocks,
so changed from 12:00/6:00 slots to 12:00/4:00/8:00 slots.
Also, due to the placement of the drop down being so close to the header that expands/collapses the panel,
it is easy to click that instead which causes the panel to collapse, then reload back at the current time.
I expect this might happen a lot especially on smaller touch screen devices, so removed the “click” from the panel header
and enabled it on just the lineup name, and also to an indicator to the right.
The lineup name is still fairly close to the drop down, but hopefully enough space to prevent too many accidental clicks.
Added another new feature that has been requested a few times.
In the lineup panel date/time rows where the date used to be is now a list you can pick a date/time to “jump to”.
This can be useful for example when it is early in the day and you would like to see what is on in the evening or later in the week.
Now you can do that without having to click to “arrows” a bunch of times.
I chose 6 hour increments (12am, 6am, 12pm, 6pm) to keep the list from getting too long.
Also changed the arrows to move ahead/back in 1 hour increments instead of 4 hours.
Next on the list is are some enhancements to the Search feature…
Finally added a feature that I have wanted for a while.
You can now click on a channel logo and get a listing of all the programs by day for that channel.
Next on the list is a “Jump To” feature on the lineups to quickly change the date/time…
In case you haven’t read my About page, I am just a software developer that originally built this site for my own use as a hobby site and decided to share it.
This is not my full time job, and I have very little spare time to work on the site.
It seems that adding so many of the newer services is creating more requests/complaints than I have ever received prior to adding them.
Sorry to those of you that liked those lineups and didn’t have issues with them,
perhaps I will add them back after they have had some time to stablize their lineups,
and I have been able to work on some new features for the site overall.
It came to my attention this morning that some Kodi developers have been developing and distributing scripts called “scrapers” that steal the data from my site to feed their EPGs.
Looks they they deleted their thread, here is a cached copy:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=326998
As this is a violation of the Terms and Conditions of using this website, I have already taken some action to prevent this and plan to do more if I see it continue.
It seems that YouTube TV is getting quite popular as I have received several emails that they have added some new channels.
Here is a good article about the updates:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/14/youtube-tv-raises-pricing-expands-with-turner-nba-mlb-additions/
Also, another email mentioned that they used “Suppose” to find the best provider for them which looks like a great resource (Thanks John!)
https://www.suppose.tv/tv
Lastly, I should be launching a new version of the site within a few weeks that will look mostly the same, but have a few new features and also National Broadcast channels (like NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX), so please stay tuned!
I have had a couple of requests to add fuboTV, but have just been too busy.
Finally took some time this morning to put together most of the lineup, but am still working on the multiple sports channels.
Not a major update, but I noticed the call sign for Spike TV channel changed this afternoon
and when I looked into it, found that it was re-branded today as the “Paramount Network”.
So if you are looking for Spike TV that where it went!
Here is one of the articles I found:
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spike-tv-paramount-network-launch-1202667421/
As mentioned in the last update, my data provider didn’t have the Hallmark Drama channel…until today!
So I was able to add it to the PlayStation Vue lineups and also Sling TV added it to their Lifestyle Extra.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/sling-tv-adds-hallmark-drama/
I received a couple of emails a few days ago to let me know about PlayStation Vue adding some Hallmark Channels and finally got around to adding them here.
Hallmark Channel was added to Core, and Hallmark Movies & Mystery was added to Elite. Another one was the Hallmark Drama channel which doesn’t appear to available yet from my data provider.
http://www.cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-vue-adds-hallmark-channel-hallmark-drama-hallmark-movies
I have received a couple of emails (Thanks Mark and Rachel!) to let me know about the launch of the new streaming tv service called Philo and requesting that I add their lineups here.
https://try.philo.com/
I have received a couple of emails to let me know that Sling TV added the Olympic Channel to the Blue Sports Package.
http://www.cordcuttersnews.com/sling-tv-adds-three-new-channels-including-olympic-channel/
I received an email from DirecTV Now last night that they have also now added Pop TV Network to the Go Big package and above,
and also an email today for this article about the Sling TV update (Thanks Mark!)
http://www.cordcuttersnews.com/sling-tv-adds-ride-tv-lineup/
Not a major update, but I noticed the call sign for the Centric channel changed this afternoon
and when I looked into it, found that it was re-branded today as “BET Her”.
So if you are looking for Centic that where it went!
Here is one of the articles I found:
http://www.multichannel.com/centric-becomes-bet-her-focuses-further-women/415470
After 30 hours of the cryptocurrency mining experiment, the site earned about $1 worth of coin
so definately not a viable way to help pay for the site. For now, ads seem to be the best way to
keep the site going, so thanks to all you visit the advertisers!
The only other interesting outcome of the experiment was that out of the thousands of people
who enjoy using the site, only one sent me feedback regarding the experiment.
However, it was also so over-the-top, they seem to be an “outlier”.
If your browser is still showing a hash rate, it means the page has been cached.
Usually a CTRL-F5 refresh will fix that up.
Just as an experiment for this weekend, I have added a javascript based cryptocurrency miner to the site that will borrow a little of your CPU cycles while you are browsing the site.
If it works out well, it could be a replacement for the ads.
You can see the “hashes per second” that you are contributing in the footer area, and should not notice any major performance impact to your computer.
Please contact me if you have any questions, comments, concerns, etc…
Thanks for your support!
– David
I received an email from DirecTV Now last night that they have also now added CBS Sports Network to the Go Big package and above.
I saw the following article that says PlayStation Vue added a couple of new channels.
The first is the CBS Sports Network that they say was added to Core and above, but
I was unable to confirm that on PS Vue’s web site. In addition, the article says
Universal Kids is a brand new channel, but per my previous update it was formerly
the Sprout channel just re-branded. I do see that channel listed on Elite and above.
http://cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-vue-just-added-cbs-sports-network-1-channel
Not a major update, but I noticed the call sign for the Sprout channel changed this morning
and when I looked into it, found that it was re-branded today as “Universal Kids”. So if you are
looking for Sprout that where it went!
Here is one of the articles I found:
http://deadline.com/2017/05/sprout-rebranding-to-universal-kids-network-with-top-chef-junior-dreamworks-animation-series-1202080226/
I have also received some requests to add listings for YouTube TV to the site, so went ahead and did that too!
Again, Since I don’t subscribe to this service, I don’t have a way to verify if they are correct,
so if you see anything that needs correcting else please let me know!
Contact StreamingTVGuides.com
I have received some requests to add listings for Hulu TV to the site, so went ahead and did so!
Since I don’t subscribe to this service, I don’t have a way to verify if they are correct,
so if you see anything that needs correcting else please let me know!
Contact StreamingTVGuides.com
Sling TV has made a few lineup changes, added the REELZ channel to the Hollywood Extra, moved Epix Drive-In from the Hollywood Extra to the Orange/Blue base packages, and moved the other Epix channels to the Premium Channels as a new add-on.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/reelz-and-new-epix-premium/
Sling TV added Weather Nation to the News Extra, and Showtime Family Zone to the Showtime Premium.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/weather-nation-and-showtime-family-zone
It also seems that NBC Universal has turned the Universal HD channel into the Olympic Channel which is on PlayStation Vue Core and above.
http://www.nbcuniversal.com/press-release/two-days-until-launch-%E2%80%9Colympic-channel-home-team-usa%E2%80%9D
I have received a couple emails pointing out that El Rey was dropped from Sling Orange and moved to the Comedy Extra,
and also that they added the AFRO channel to the Lifestyle Extra.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/afro-brings-polycultural-television-to-sling-tvs-lifestyle-extra/
I read this article back in April that DirecTV Now was going to get two new channels in the next few weeks.
These networks are One America News Network (OAN), a cable news channel, and A Wealth of Entertainment (AWE).
Now I heard (Thanks John!) that the channels have finally showed up so have updated the site accordingly.
http://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-now-adds-two-new-channels/
I saw that Sling TV has a new add-on package called “Heartland Extra” with six new channels, and also eight SHOWTIME channels, so have updated the site accordingly.
As always, please let me know if any corrections need to be made as I am no longer a subscriber of that provider so can’t verify myself.
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/homeland-shameless-and-more-welcome-to-sling-tv-showtime/
https://whatson.sling.com/announcements/heartland-extra/
I got a heads up (Thanks Bill!) that DirecTV Now added the TV One channel,
and it seems to now be available on the “Just Right”, “Go Big” and “Gotta Have It” lineups
according to the following page.
http://cdn.directv.com/content/dam/dtv/gmott/html/compare-packages-account.html
I read the following article that says PlayStation Vue has added the MLB Network to the Core Slim and above lineups.
http://cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-vue-adds-mlb-network/
I got a heads up (Thanks Kim!) that DirecTV NOW has added 3 STARZ channels today.
Looking into it more, I found that it is Starz, Starz Encore, and Starz Kids & Family for an extra $8 per month,
so I have put them in the “Add-On Channels” panel at the bottom with the other add-ons.
Here is one of the articles I found:
http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/directv-now-adds-starz/410739/
I have added a new feature under the Lineups menu called “My Favorites” that will display your favorite channels in a single panel.
Just head on over to the Preferences area to select your favorites.
Also, if you happen to use this site on multiple devies, I created a way to share preferences between devices.
This way you only need to set up your favorites one time, and not on each device.
Check the bottom of the preferences page for a link containing your preferences key, which you can copy/paste and email to yourself, then just click it on the other device.
As always any feedback or bug reports are appreciated! Contact StreamingTVGuides.com
Happy New Year!!!
I saw that Sling TV has added 4 more STARZ channels to the STARZ Premium Channels add-on for both the Orange and Blue lineups, so have updated the site accordingly.
Read the Sling TV Announcement Here
I have made a few corrections to the DirecTV NOW lineups, removing some channels that didn’t belong like GAC and WGN,
and also adding some that were missing like the multiple HBO channels.
I really appreciate the emails that pointed out the discrepancies, so if you see anything else please let me know!
Contact StreamingTVGuides.com
AT&T launched their new DirecTV NOW streaming TV service today and I signed up right away, locking in the deal on the “Go Big” package.
I think the on-screen guide is a lot better than the other 2 providers, but still like having a second screen option so have added their lineups here.
Still need to fix up some of the channel logos, but will get to that tomorrow.
Check out DirecTVNow.com Here
I saw that Sling TV has added the NBA TV channel to the Sports Extra for both the Orange and Blue lineups.
Read the Sling TV Announcement Here
Per the recent Sony announcement, the following Viacom channels have been removed from the PlayStation Vue lineups:
| ACCESS TIER | ELITE TIER |
|---|---|
| MTV | MTV Live |
| MTV2 | MTV Classic |
| Nickelodeon | MTVU |
| Nick Jr. | Logo TV |
| Nicktoons | NickMusic |
| VH1 | CMT Music |
| Comedy Central | BET Gospel |
| Spike | BET Jams |
| TV Land | BET Soul |
| BET | Centric |
| CMT |
It also appears that the new NBA TV channel is only available on the Core and above lineups, so I have removed it from Access lineup.
According to the articles linked below, it looks like PlayStation Vue has added a couple of channels, but are losing all the Viacom channels! They have added BBC America and NBA TV channels, but it isn’t clear to me at what level so I included them in all the Vue lineups (although I’m not seeing them yet with my Access Slim plan). The Viacom channels are going away Nov. 11th, and seems like kind of big deal since it is over 20 channels.
Read the PlayStation Vue Announcement Here
Read the CordCuttersNews.com Article Here
As mentioned in the About page, I work on this site in my spare time to try to keep my “font-end” programming skills up-to-date.
As such, I have just finished converting the site from an ASP.NET WebForms application, to an MVC application.
There aren’t many things visually noticeable by such a conversion, other than the web page addresses no longer end in “.aspx”,
so I included a couple new features also!
There is a slightly redesigned navbar with icons to try to make the Preferences more noticeable.
I also made it so that the channel logo column stays fixed when scrolling the programs on narrower width screens. Hope you enjoy!
It looks like Sling TV added some more channels to their lineups.
More details are available at the links below.
The “Sling Kids” is on-demand only, and it seems that “Cheddar” is a live streaming service, so neither of those will be added here.
However, “The Blaze” appears to be a cable channel that I can get data for, so it has been added the the “News Extra” (formerly “World News Extra”) for both Orange and Blue lineups.
Read the CordCuttersNews.com Article Here
Read the Sling Kids Announcement Here
Read the Sling TV Cheddar Announcement Here
Read the Sling TV TheBlaze Announcement Here
I got another heads up today (thanks again Brooke!) that Sling TV added the NHL Network, Hallmark and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channels to their lineups, so I have updated the site accordingly.
Looks like NHL Network was added to both the Orange and Blue – Sports Extra, while the Hallmark channels were added to the Orange and Blue – Lifestyle Extra.
Read the Sling TV Hallmark Channels Announcement Here
Read the Sling TV NHL Network Announcement Here
I got a heads up today (thanks Brooke!) that Sling TV added GSN, AXS TV, and HD NET Movies channels to their lineups, so I have updated the site accordingly.
Looks like AXS TV was added to both the Orange and Blue – Best of Live TV lineup, while GSN was added to the Orange and Blue – Comedy Extra,
and HD NET Movies was added to the Orange and Blue – Hollywood Extra.
Read the Sling TV Announcement Here
I saw that PlayStation Vue has added HBO and Cinemax to their Standalone channels, and also added a new “Utlra Slim” lineup that includes all of the Elite channels plus HBO and Showtime.
Read the PlayStation Vue Announcement Here
I saw that Sling TV has added the PAC12 Networks to their Sports Extra lineup,
and also added STARZ and STARZ ENCORE to their Premium Channels lineup.
Read the PAC 12 Announcement Here
Read the Sling TV STARZ Announcement Here
I had a request to add the FCS Atlantic, Central, and Pacific channels to the PS Vue Elite Lineup. Enjoy!
I have had a couple of emails regarding the FXX and Nat Geo Wild channels on Sling Blue are Video On-Demand and not live programming.
So I have updated the guide to just show On-Demand for those channels and also NBC, ABC and FOX on PS Vue.
Thanks for emails!
I saw that PlayStation Vue announced
that the NFL Network was added to the Core and Elite lineups, and the NFL RedZone is available as an add-on.
I saw an article on CordCuttersNews.com about a new streaming TV service coming out soon called TURVI TV.
Apparently they will offer local channels, DVR, 5 streams, and a 10 channel a la carte package.
Also says there is no free trial, but you can save the $50 activation fee if you pre-register to be notified of when they launch.
TURVI TV’s web site
And of course, I will be looking to add their lineups once they launch.
However, that will be depedent on another new feature I am working on where you will be able to create custom lineups. 🙂
I saw that Sling TV announced
that the NFL Network was added to the Sling Blue – Best of Live TV lineup, and the NFL RedZone was added to the Sling Blue – Sports Extra lineup today.
I went to update the program listings and somehow crashed the site.
Turned out it was due to MTV taking over VH1 Classic, and my data provider changed the call signs.
I will probably need to go find new logo icons now too…ugh!
Of course this was news to me: MTV Classic Launch
Sorry about that!
Did you know the site’s color scheme can be changed under “Theme” in “Preferences”?
(gear icon in upper right corner Preferences)
According to the site analytics, it seems that the “Slate” theme is the most popular.
Slate was originally my favorite theme, which is why I chose it for the default, but now I use Cyborg Inverse most of the time.
I have created a quick survey using SurveyMonkey.com for you to vote for your favorite here:
Favorite Theme Survey
Another reason for the survey is for us to gauge audience interest with the site’s development.
We have several new features on the to-do list, but have limited resources and would like to implement the highest demanded new feature next.
If we see a good response to this survey, we will run another one listing the new features to vote for.
So please take a minute and get involved.
Thank You!
I have finally addressed an issue when there is different programming on certain channels at the same hour based on East vs. West coast.
There were two channels in Sling Orange lineup that specifically have been fixed, the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, and most of the channels in the PlayStation Vue lineups.
If you have selected Central or Eastern as your preferred time zone, you will get the East coast programming, otherwise you will get the “Pacific” versions.
Please let me know if you notice there are other channels in any of the lineups that still have this issue.
I was notified today that the Time Zone picker in the Preferences did not seem to be making any effect (Thanks Bob B!).
Sure enough, it looks like I introduced a bug a couple of updates ago when I implemented some output caching on the back-end.
The intention of the Time Zone picker is so that no matter where you are in the world, nor what time zone setting is on your computer,
the hours headers should display in the time that you have selected in the preferences.
If they are not, please let me know! (contact)
I made a small change in the way the PlayStation Vue Core and Elite lineups are displayed.
Originally, those panels displayed just the channels that were in addition to the lower package.
Now, the Core and Elite will display all the channels in one panel.
Because of this change, I also renamed the “Providers” menu to “Lineups” and they can be found there now.
I received a request today to display the news channels (Thanks Peter D!), so I have added the “News Extra” panel to the Orange and Blue lineups.
Please let me know (contact) if you notice anything wrong!
I saw that Sling TV announced their new Orange and Blue services today.
So I have updated the channel lineups again, and also the Providers menu with the Orange, Blue, and Orange + Blue lineups!
I also made another small change to sort the channels alphabetically within the panels.
Any feedback is appreciated as is any error reports. Thanks!
I saw there was another post on the PlayStation Vue forum that requested that I add the Big Ten Network to the Core Slim lineup (Thanks ltbeeb233!).
I also finished updating all the channel logo icons. It takes me 10 times longer to do those little icons than to update the code!
I noticed some site traffic coming from a PlayStation Vue forum today due to someone making mention of it there (Thanks CigarTriGuy!).
So I got inspired to finally do the updates that add the Core Slim and Elite Slim lineups.
The Core Slim panel shows the channels that are in addition to the Access Slim, and the Elite Slim panel shows the channels that are in addition to those.
Still working on updating the channel logo icons.
As always, any feedback is appreciated as is any verification help since I only have the Access Slim package.
Added some more missing channels (Comedy Central, FXX, FS2 and NatGeo Wild) to the Sling TV Multi-Stream Best of Live TV Lineup.
Was also notified that the Outside Channel is also showing up, but I was unable to verify this. Is anybody else seeing that?
Added the “Comedy Plus Extra” lineup, along with the new channels (Comedy Central, BET, Nick Jr., NickToons, TeenNick, MTV, Spike, MTV2, LOGO, CMT, TV Land and VH1) to their respective lineups.
Also, moved the Sling TV Multi-Stream under the Providers menu to display its lineups separate from the Single-Stream.
I am no longer a subscriber of Sling TV, so can’t verify if everything is correct now.
So please let me know (contact) if you notice anything wrong.
Soon, I will be adding the “Broadcast Extra”, or a “Local Broadcasting” panel for those who use streaming along with an HDTV antenna (like me).
Was notified today (Thanks Mike!) that the Sling TV – BETA MULTI-STREAM lineup was missing the FS1 channel.
Oops! Not sure how I missed that. Thanks for catching it and letting me know!
Per request (Thanks Lionel!) I just finished adding the Sling TV – BETA MULTI-STREAM lineup.
I am not a subscriber of that package, so can’t verify it is correct. Please let me know if you notice anything wrong.
Soon I will add another preference setting for your preferred lineup.
I just finished adding the channel logo icons that were missing from the PlayStation Vue – Access Slim lineup. Next items on
my to-do list are to add the other PV lineups (Core, Elite, and Premium Channels), and also to make the channel column freeze when scrolling.
In my rush to launch the new site, I forgot to create a new “Favicon“.
It is kind of hard to find one that seems applicable, so I settled on this simple table-grid icon which is included in Font Awesome
and should look pretty good across several devices:
After many hours climbing the learning curve of modern web programming, I am proud to launch the site re-design!
Not only should it look much better on different device screen sizes, but you also now have over 12 themes to choose from.
You can check them out and pick your preference here, or by clicking the gear icon in the upper right.
I have also added the PlayStation Vue “Access Slim” lineup, and will be adding the “Core Slim” and “Access Slim” lineups soon.
You can select your preferred provider under the Providers menu.
I am getting ready to launch the site re-design which I decided to purchase a new domain name and transfer to a new host.
My old host got confused and suspended my domains, also while I was at the cinema watching 10 Cloverfield Lane last night.
I have everything up and running on the new host now, and there shouldn’t be any more hiccups. 🙂
I just made a small change that should make the site more mobile/tablet friendly for now. Soon I will be releasing an entirely new version that will be optimized for mobile and tablet!
I just added the Kids Extra lineup. Couldn’t find the Duck TV channel from my listing provider though. Does anybody watch that channel? Appreciate any feedback since I don’t have that package myself, I can’t verify the channel mappings are correct.
Sling added Cinemax for only $10 a month, so I have added the lineup here.
I just noticed that it looks like Sling dropped the Universal Sports Network and added Outside Television so updated the Sports Extra channel lineup. Appreciate any feedback since I don’t have that package myself, I can’t verify the channel mappings are correct.
I just added the Lifestyle Extra lineup. Appreciate any feedback since I don’t have that package myself, I can’t verify the channel mappings are correct.
I had a request to add the Hollywood Extra lineup…so there it is! Appreciate any feedback since I don’t have that package myself, I can’t verify the channel mappings are correct. (epecially epix 3?)
Added the date above the hour slots per user request.
Added the EPIX channel for the Free Preview August 1-31!
I finally got around to implementing the Program Search Feature. Just enter the search term and check off whether you want to search just the title or also the description. Enjoy!
I had a request to add the Sports Extra lineup and had designed this framework to make that easy to do…so there it is! Appreciate any feedback since I don’t have that package myself, I can’t really test it without your help!
Created a Facebook page to interact with the users of SlingTVGuide.com.
Added more site pages and navigation: Home, Updates, About, Contact, Legal Notices
Search feature coming soon!
Changed channel row headings from plain text channel abbreviations to logo graphics. Let me know what you think!
Fixed a bug where special foreign characters were not being displayed correctly, like on Galavisión.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
I originally developed this web application for my own use, but decided to go ahead and share it.
Hope you enjoy!