Weve officially entered the dog days of summer. So, if you need to beat the heat, Hulu is offering a range of new titles to keep you inside. With every month comes the death of some shows streaming availability and the birth of others August is no exception. Late summer will see a few recent big. During a North Country wrestling meet held at Soukerry, England, the 18year old William Richardson of Caldbeck scores his first professional wrestling victory. Why You Cant Watch ABC Online. I cut the cord with cable a long time ago. Its been a great experience for me, and an amazing money saver to boot. I wrote about how to cut the cord with cable and how Im using my Roku and Play. On TV to watch the shows I want to see. Watch The Legend Online Hulu. While it isnt perfect and doesnt cover every network and every show, it covers everything I care about except some sports. Not anymore. The online streaming of ABC changed on January 6, and now you need to sign in to your cable provider to watch new shows via the ABC app. I have a major philosophical issue with this, as ABC is network television and meant to be free tv. When you stream ABC on the abc. In fact, you watch a lot of commercials. There are at least six commercial breaks in an hour long show, one before the show starts and five throughout the episode, and you cannot fast forward through them or change apps on your tablet or phone to avoid them. Youre pretty much forced to watch them, unlike when I used to use my VCR to tape show or even my DVR where I could fast forward. Apparently ABC has decided that they arent making enough money from the commercials, and now you have to have an affiliation with an approved cable provider to use the ABC app. GTd0Ns-xQTa7xQhQxSnD8Ec_dio=/1200x630/2017%2F07%2F26%2F1c%2Fa3941e3954864a13b81bdf5fb7c7a981.db52a.jpg' alt='Watch Cujo Online Hulu' title='Watch Cujo Online Hulu' />Whether its because they cant charge enough per viewing of the commercials online or their shows cost too much to make and license or some other problem altogether, address that root cause. This is not the answer. Within two days, the abc. They updated it to fix some not insignificant bugs, and already there are almost 1,5. That should tell you something there. My personal opinion aside, this is the reality at the moment. ABC follows the trend set by Fox and CBS in making this change, as Fox has long required you to provide your cable provider to watch recent shows but Ill be honest, there arent any Fox shows I watch, so I sort of hadnt cared. CBS has been late to the game in providing online streaming, and again there arent any CBS shows Im interested in watching primarily because they havent streamed shows in the past. While CBS doesnt require you yet to have a cable subscription, they simply dont load shows to their app until a week has passed, which is essentially the same result. NBC, however, still keeps free tv as free tv for all, not just those who are overpaying for cable with select providers. For now. You know its a matter of time, rightABC If youre listening, I have a message for you. There are some shows that Im willing to wait to watch, but not many. And those are only the shows that I currently watch and love, which is down to four yep, just four right now. Three Ill wait to watch, but the fourthNope. So that means you just lost a viewer. When they go off the air, I wont be searching for new ABC shows to replace them. Ill find other ways to spend my time, and thats fewer eyeballs youll have anywhere. You cant stop the tide of change. People simply dont sit down on a Thursday night to watch live television anymore. More and more of us are cutting the cord with cable for a variety of reasons. If you want to retain a fraction of your viewership, this is a decision you need to seriously revisit. So whats up with the new ABC app Ive been exploring and testing and playing with it for awhile, and I at least have some answers to what you can and cant do. ABC App FAQ what you can and cant do with ABC. Can I just not update the abc. Nope. When you open the app anytime after January 6, you receive the message that this version of the app is no longer supported and that you have to update the app. You can either choose to not update it and simply not stream ABC anymore, or you can update it with the new restrictions. If I dont have cable, can I watch nothingFortunately, no. I have a feeling there would be some regulatory involvement if the networks made all their shows pay only. Shows are available for select cable subscribers the day after they air. They are then available to everyone one week after they air. So if youre up for watching Greys Anatomy seven days after it airs, you can still do so. How do I know what I can view if I dont have an approved cable plan When you open the app and view the television shows, episodes that are in their protected period will have a bar across them VERIFY TO VIEW. If you click on one, it will ask you to sign in with an approved cable subscription. These shows will also list how long until the protected period expires so you know when you can come back to watch it without a subscription. The show I want to watch is expiring soon. Thats not fair From what I can see, shows will be uploaded for streaming twice. The protected period upload will have the one week countdown and the verified requirement. Once that period has passed, the episode will be pulled and reuploaded with for streaming accessible to everyone. Those shows will have no notifications on them, and they dont state when they will expire. Typically, five episodes including the protected viewing episodes, if any are available at any given time, but sometimes there are fewer or rarely more. Watch Senna Online Facebook. If I have cable, am I set to watch just like I did beforeOnly if you are lucky enough to live where the cable provider has partnered with ABC. Right now, only some providers are participating, though this may change going forward. For ABC, if you have a cable subscription with AT T U verse, Charter, Cox, Google fiber, Midcontinent Communications, Optimum, Verizon Fi. OS, or Xfinity, you are set. If you have any other provider, youre out of luck. That includes major cable providers like Time Warner, as well as Dish and Direct TV. How do I log in if I have a subscription with one of the participating cable providersClick on any episode that has VIEW TO VERIFY on it. That will take you to the list of cable partners. Select your cable provider, which will open a new page where you enter your credentials. Once youve signed in, it should take you back to the show you wanted to view and keep you logged in going forward. That said, it doesnt yet work perfectly. You may need to close the app and reopen it before it accepts your login. If I stream television via Roku or Apple TV, can I watch ABC protected view episodesYes and no. If you had access to ABC streaming to your television via a third party provider previously, you may be able to. Hulu subscribers can still watch the recent episodes part of the subscription, for example.