It’s called Haystack News, and while it’s been flying under the radar as a streaming-news option for years (under the name Haystack TV until recently), I think it’s worth another look. Haystack’s been making some major improvements lately, with more local news sources, live streams from national news sources, and an interesting “ticker” with weather and other useful tidbits.

Although the app still feels in some ways like a work in progress, it’s been my preferred way to stream the news in a week full of it. Read the full column on TechHive.

At issue is the way T-Mobile splits most entertainment channels into their own $10 per month bundle, while news, sports, and local channels are in a separate package that starts at $40 per month. Discovery and ViacomCBS say their channels should also be part of the bigger bundle, while NBC says its local channels should be part of the smaller bundle. In effect, they all want TVision to be more bloated and less flexible, looking more like existing services such as Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and FuboTV, where the vast majority of channels are mandatory.

T-Mobile says that while it wants to be a good partner to media companies, it also believes it’s not violating any of its contracts. How the company will square those two seemingly incompatible notions is anyone’s guess at this point. Stay tuned.

Here comes the Comcast TV? Comcast may be in talks with Walmart to co-produce a smart TV, the Wall Street Journal reports. This follows a previous story by Protocol that said Comcast was interested in licensing its software to smart TV makers.

Under the rumored arrangement with Walmart, Comcast would supply the operating system—presumably similar to what runs on its X1 and Flex set-top boxes—and a third-party vendor would handle manufacturing. Walmart, meanwhile, would get a cut of revenue from things like ads. Walmart might also supply the branding, since Comcast-branded consumer hardware would probably be a tough sell.

It’s tempting to groan at the idea of a TV from the cable guys, but I do appreciate that Comcast’s X1 and Flex boxes are in the camp of trying to unify disparate streaming sources into a single guide, similar to what Google and TiVo are doing with their respective streaming dongles. If the hardware was aggressively priced—and Comcast’s involvement was sufficiently obscured from shoppers—it might have a fighting chance.

Of the streaming devices, my vote would be for the Fire TV Stick 4K. It’s only $2 more than the non-4K version and a fine way to future-proof even if you don’t have a 4K HDR TV right now. I’d avoid the Fire TV Stick Lite unless you have some universal remote setup, in which the lack of TV volume and power controls on Amazon’s remote isn’t an issue.

Also notable: Target has a 65-inch 4K Android TV from TCL for just $230.