Randy Harward
Randy Harward is a Senior Staff Writer at CableTV.com and the site’s resident horror expert. With over 25 years of experience covering music, film, and television, Randy’s work has been featured in a broad range of publications. He has held key editorial roles, including Music Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly, Senior Editor at Blurt, and Associate Editor at HARP magazine. His writing has also appeared in over 20 outlets, such as Guitar World, Salt Lake Magazine, CMJ New Music Monthly, Rockpile, and Mean Street. At CableTV.com, Randy focuses on TV services—both streaming and traditional—and scary movies.
Shows Like Squid Game
by Randy Harward | Jul 20, 2023 | Entertainment
Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Netflix series Squid Game is a smash, but we won’t see a second season until late 2023 or early 2024. In the meantime, here are six similar shows that should scratch your itch for dystopian death-puzzle madness.
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10 Ways to Save Money on Cable and Streaming TV
by Randy Harward | Jun 12, 2023 | Entertainment, Outreach
Inflation is jacking up prices everywhere, and entertainment is always the first budget-cut. Here are some money-saving tips on TV service to mitigate the sacrifice.
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Best 55-Inch TV
by Randy Harward | Jun 12, 2023 | Best Of, Equipment Guides
Black Friday is the best time to buy a new 55-inch smart TV. Our TV experts think the Samsung QN90B (QN55QN90BAFXZA) is the best 55-inch TV overall, but the Hisense U8H is the best 55-inch TV under $1,000. And Amazon has the best 55-inch deal we’ve found: the QN90B bundled with either a SteelSeries Stratus-Duo video game controller or Mackie CR-STEALTHBAR soundbar.
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Best 75-Inch TV
by Randy Harward | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
We think the Samsung QN90B (QN75QN90BAFXZA) is the best 75-inch TV overall, while the TCL 5-Series 75S555 Roku TV is the best 75-inch TV under $1,000. And we’ve found two of the best 75-inch TV deals on Amazon—QN90B bundles where you can save 41% ($48) on a Mackie CR-STEALTHBAR soundbar or get a free SteelSeries Stratus-Duo video game controller.
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Best Horror Movies to Stream
by Randy Harward | Jun 6, 2023 | Best Of, Entertainment
Well, hello—or greetings, or some other salutation that sounds creepy when you wear a black cape and try to affect an English accent. The horror hosts are CableTV.com have compiled a scary movie watchlist for you to watch late at night when your air conditioner’s on the fritz and you can’t sleep.
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How To Program a DISH Remote
by Randy Harward | Jun 2, 2023 | TV FAQs
So you’ve got a DISH universal remote, and you want to get it set up to control your entire home theater, rather than just your Hopper or Joey receiver. Piece of cake!
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What Is FAST TV?
by Randy Harward | May 19, 2023 | Entertainment
The late writer/director John Hughes, writing as Ferris Bueller, said, “Life moves pretty fast.“ So does streaming TV technology. We had broadcast TV, then cable TV, then satellite TV. Now we have streaming TV and it’s evolved offshoots, like FAST services. In this article, we’ll explain FAST and several other streaming TV terms.
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fuboTV is Now Called Fubo, and (Maybe Someday) Cable
by Randy Harward | Mar 23, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News
So fuboTV has a new name. No, the sportsball-focused live TV streaming service partly owned by Deadpool actor and biz whiz Ryan Reynolds didn’t add “+” to its name (as streaming services are wont to do). Instead, fuboTV laid off “TV” and promoted the “f” to “F” for a simple moniker: “Fubo.”
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How to Connect Your iPhone to Your TV
by Randy Harward | Nov 10, 2022 | Equipment Guides, TV FAQs
Whether you need to mirror your phone screen or use your iPhone as a remote, we’ve rounded up the most common ways to connect your iPhone to your TV and how to do it.
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America’s Most Popular News Networks
by Randy Harward | Oct 31, 2022 | Entertainment
We surveyed 1,126 Americans to find the most popular TV news networks in the United States, collectively and regionally—here are the results.
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