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In this week's collection of recent cord-cutting news items from around the web: FCC expected to repeal net neutrality rules, YouTube TV coming to Apple TV and Roku devices, MoviePass wants to be the Netflix of cinema-going, Verizon may have new deal with NFL, stream The Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas, and m

In this week's collection of recent cord-cutting news items from around the web: Amazon scraps plans for streaming live TV, Sports Illustrated TV launches, 47 college basketball games to be streamed on Facebook, Roku's stock hit a record high, number of pay TV subscribers in US grew last quarter, and more.

We reviewed 36 new channels in the Roku channel store this week. The channels bring content in the categories of Comedy, Games, International, Kids & Family, Lifestyle, Movies & TV, News & Weather, Religious, Screensavers, Special Interest, Sports, Travel, and Web Video to the Roku. Click on the links below for more details on each channel.

Philo, a sports-free streaming TV service that is "focused on entertainment, lifestyle and knowledge programming," is the latest entrant in the live TV streaming service wars. At launch, Roku is the only set-top box supported, but subscribers can also stream through web browsers and an iOS app.

Roku's US customers now have access to the Deezer streaming music service with more than 43 million on-demand music tracks from record labels that include EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. Similar to Spotify, the European-based Deezer allows unlimited streaming and the ability to select any song. Deezer was previously available on Roku only in Europe, and will soon be available to Roku users in Latin American countries as well.

In this week's rundown of recent news items for cord cutters: Major upgrades coming to DirecTV Now, a guide to upgrading your media streamer, Olympic Channel comes to Sling, a cord-cutter's guide to watching college basketball, hints about the new ESPN streaming service, Hulu available on Nintendo Switch, and mo