PlayStation Vue was an American streaming television service that was owned by the Sony Interactive Entertainment subdivision of the Sony Corporation of America division of Sony.
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12 Facts About PlayStation Vue
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On October 29,2019, Sony announced PlayStation Vue would be ending service on January 30,2020, because "the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected".
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PlayStation Vue initially launched on March 18,2015, in the form of a limited rollout in the major markets of Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, Miami, New York City and Philadelphia.
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On June 15,2015, in a press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, House announced that PlayStation Vue would become available in Los Angeles and San Francisco beginning that evening, and that the service would become the exclusive launch partner for the linear feed of online video network Machinima, which would be included as part of the Vue Elite tier.
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On November 12,2015, PlayStation Vue expanded support to the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick; support for Google Chromecast devices was added the following month on December 15 it was limited to iOS users as PS Vue had not yet launched an app for Google's Android operating system.
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Two months later on January 25,2017, PlayStation Vue announced it would move the Esquire Network to its "Elite" package, in advance of the network's planned shutdown that spring.
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PlayStation Vue was not necessarily designed as a substitute for a "traditional" pay television provider, but as a complement to subscription-based online services and broadcast television.
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PlayStation Vue featured video on demand content, including catch-up programming from the channels carried on the service and content provided by over-the-top services operated by individual networks; an alternative VOD channel featuring content from each of the major broadcast networks was available as a substitute for a local station in certain markets.
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Around the time of its March 2015 soft launch, Sony announced that it had reached agreements with many major content providers to supply channels for PlayStation Vue's lineup, including The Walt Disney Company, Discovery Networks, Fox Corporation, NBCUniversal, AMC Networks, WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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The CW programming on the network's Chicago affiliate, WPWR-TV, was blacked out on WPWR; all other programming carried on WPWR to which PlayStation Vue held streaming rights – including those supplied through its MyNetworkTV affiliation – was carried unobstructed.
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Outside the aforementioned CBS affiliates, Miami Fox affiliate WSVN, and NBC affiliates KPRC-TV in Houston and WDIV-TV in Detroit, all of the other broadcast television stations that offered on PlayStation Vue were owned-and-operated stations of their respective parent network.
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On October 27,2016, Sony announced that PlayStation Vue would become available on Android TV, requiring users of the device to have or update to Android OS 4.
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