Bill Frost
Bill Frost has been a journalist and TV reviewer since the 4:3-aspect-ratio ’90s. His pulse-pounding prose has been featured in The Salt Lake Tribune, Inlander, Coachella Valley Independent, Las Vegas Weekly, and many other dead-tree publications (see BillFrost.tv). In addition to being a Senior Contributing Writer at CableTV.com, Bill is a syndicated streaming TV columnist for Salt Lake City Weekly and other alternative weeklies, and host/producer of TV Tan Podcast. By night, Bill cranks a Flying V with his band at the bar.
Best Free and Cheap Streaming Services
by Bill Frost | Feb 28, 2025 | Best of the Best, Deals, Entertainment, Streaming
We’re all about the bang for your buck here at CableTV.com, but how about bang for no bucks? Expensive premium streaming services are cool and all, but discovering free and cheap entertainment is a small victory that’s (mostly) priceless. We’ve rounded up some of those small victories for your streaming enjoyment.
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24 TV Shows You Can Binge-Watch in One Weekend and How to Stream Them
by Bill Frost | Feb 21, 2025 | Entertainment, Listicles, TV, What to Watch
The CableTV.com team watches television professionally, so it’s easy to forget sometimes that normal humans don’t have time for all the shows, movies, and sports we throw at them every week. With that in mind, we’ve compiled 23 short series that you could easily take in over a weekend.
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What Channel Is PBS On?
by Bill Frost | Feb 19, 2025 | Channel Guide, Entertainment, TV
The PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) TV network has been around longer than most of us have been alive. Know anyone who’s never heard of Sesame Street, Antiques Roadshow, or Austin City Limits? Probably not. PBS is also more widely available than most of its commercial counterparts—let’s get into where you can find your local station.
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How To Watch Pro Wrestling Every Day of the Week
by Bill Frost | Feb 7, 2025 | How to Watch, Sports
How do I know that pro wrestling is the most American sport of them all? You can watch it every day of the week on TV—boom, mouse drop. Pro wrestling is also not seasonal, which means it’s on 24/7/365, just like all of the hard-working Americans here at the Enormodome tonight! Let me hear you, Atlanta!
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Netflix vs. Hulu
by Bill Frost | Feb 7, 2025 | Entertainment, Reviews, Streaming
The twin titans of on-demand content, Netflix and Hulu, both began streaming in 2007 and have been battling for dominance ever since. So, which does it better?
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Amazon Prime Video vs. Netflix
by Bill Frost | Jan 27, 2025 | Reviews, Streaming
Should you go with Prime Video or Netflix? Depends on what you’re looking for. Prime Video offers a higher quantity of TV shows and movies (over 15,000), and even more content through one-time rentals and premium channel subscriptions. Only a few Prime Video original shows and movies have dented the TV zeitgeist, however—hello, Mrs. Maisel.
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Where You Can Watch The Walking Dead
by Bill Frost | Jan 27, 2025 | Entertainment, Horror, How to Watch, Streaming, TV
The Walking Dead (TWD) is a character-based horror series about a zombie apocalypse, based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics graphic novel of the same name. The TV series premiered in 2010 on AMC and concluded its 11th and final season in 2022.
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The Best Christmas Musicals of the Modern Day
by Bill Frost | Jan 15, 2025 | Entertainment, Holiday, Listicles
You know the usual suspects: White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the rest of the Christmas musicals you see ticked off on holiday listicles year after year. Most of them came out before your parents (or parents’ parents) were born. What if we told you there are other Christmas musicals?
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How to Watch Friends
by Bill Frost | Jan 3, 2025 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Streaming, TV
Friends is one of the most popular American sitcoms of all time, airing for 10 seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004, which adds up to 236 episodes—that’s a lotta lattes. Did we mention that the show mostly takes place in a Manhattan coffee shop?
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What Channel Is TCM On?
by Bill Frost | Dec 17, 2024 | Channel Guide, Entertainment, TV
Turner Classic Movies, commonly known as TCM, launched in 1994 as a cable home for classic films dating back to the ‘20s—the 1920s, to be clear. These days, TCM is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, but it remains commercial-free and uncensored (for now).
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