Previously on Cord Cutter Weekly …

When commercial breaks become drastically shorter, or when a subset of viewers can watch new shows with no breaks at all, spacing every program into 30- or 60-minute time slots becomes obsolete.

FuboTV doesn’t have the name recognition of other streaming bundles, but it’s been quietly building up a service to take on the likes of Dish’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, and Sony’s PlayStation Vue.

While it’s great to see so much antenna innovation, there are other ways to watch broadcast TV on your own schedule, ones that don’t demand making an up-front investment in new hardware.

In lieu of a new column, this week I updated TechHive’s Sling TV guide.

With this week’s news that Amazon Prime is coming to Apple TV–with TV app support and all–I took a look at why Netflix is holding out, even as it supports universal browsing on other platforms like Amazon Fire TV and Android TV.

Plex DVR is addressing its biggest blind spot as it comes out beta, adding live TV from over-the-air antennas.

Google’s Android TV platform is getting a major overhaul later this year, transforming the home screen from a sea of app icons into a series of “Channels” that suggest what to watch.

I’ve got two related features on TechHive this week, including a review of Hulu’s live TV service and an interview with Hulu’s CTO.

In a game of survival of the fittest, networks are now turning against one another to the benefit of consumers.

Sling says it’s offering “a la carte TV,” but that’s just marketing fluff.