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In this week's rundown of recent news items for cord-cutters: How to stream the Mayweather-McGregor fight, Roku still top streaming device and growing, Hulu now available through Web browsers, streaming service market may be headed for consolidation, and more.

FandangoNOW, Roku's embedded on-demand streaming movie and TV service, has issued a challenge to film buffs to bring attention to classics and relevant new films that are available on any streaming device. The challenge is called "Rotten Tomatoes' 200 Essential Movies to Watch Now" and consists of films hand-picked by Rotten Tomatoes editors from "Certified Fresh" titles (scoring 75% and above on the Tomatometer).

In this week's rundown of recent news items for cord-cutters: How to livestream the 2017 eclipse, Turner entering streaming sports market, YouTube TV expanding to over 30 new markets, Apple to spend $1B on content creation, and more.

It was a slow week in the Roku channel store with only one new channel. But we found three more that we previously missed. The channels bring content in the categories of Apps, Movies & TV, Religious, and Sports, to the Roku. Click on the links below for more details on each channel.