November 25, 2025

DirecTV x Google: The Hotel TV Future… Explained by Two People Trapped in the 90s

We didn’t just announce the DirecTV Hospitality + Google partnership…

We announced it from the 1990s.

Kimberly Twiggs and I traveled back to the 1990s — the land of dial-up internet, beepers, giant remotes, and free HBO weekends — to report on the 2025 partnership between DirecTV Hospitality and Google.

Yes, you read that right.

We announced a futuristic tech integration… from inside a 90s party.

On #NoVacancyNews, we break down DIRECTV HOSPITALITY and Google TV’s new strategic relationship bringing enhanced, personalized streaming experience to hotels nationwide by integrating Google TV’s business-to-business version of the Android TV™ operating system into DIRECTV’s Advanced Entertainment Platform.

It’s a match as seamless as segues between bits on Mr. Show with Bob and David.

What you’ll see:

📺 Chunky TVs that weighed more than housekeeping carts

🟦 Legit 90s slang that embarrasses us more than our report cards did

📟 A beeper cameo you absolutely didn’t ask for

🚀 And the real story: how DirecTV + Google are changing hotel entertainment

🔒 Secure log-ins, Google Cast built-in, and personalized streaming in every room

🎬 Pauly Shore references that no one requested… yet here we are

Glenn: During the hospitality show. Direct TV hospitality announced a strategic relationship with Google. In today’s episode, we caught up with direct TV hospitality during the hospitality show’s 90s themed party and looked into the future 2025 to be exact, to predict that direct TV Hospitality and Google will team up to help enhance the hotel guest room entertainment experience on direct TV’s advanced entertainment platform. Let’s find out what happened.

Glenn: What’s up everybody? Thanks for tuning in. We are here live from the Raddest decade of them all. The 1990s. I’m Glenn Haussman. I got Kimberly Twigs with me of direct TV, and dang, this is cool being here in the 90s.

Kim: As if. Glenn. Whatever. Tell me the 411.

Glenn: So the 411 is we’re broadcasting live from this epic 90s bash. The hair is big, the TV is even bigger, and hotel rooms everywhere are bragging about free HBO weekends.

Kim: Oh yeah, that was all that and a bag of chips. And how did we even know what a Google was back then? I still don’t. Back when, binge watching meant staying up way too late to watch sex and the city.

Speaker4: That’s right, 1998, baby. Carrie Bradshaw was dialing up love in the city on a landline.

Speaker5: Not just sex and the city. What about the Sopranos?

Speaker4: Bada bing, bada boom.

Kim: Classic. But don’t change the channel. We’ve got another throwback coming in hot. And let’s not forget Poltergeist on Showtime. Oh, man, these old TVs are scary.

Glenn: Go into the light. Hoteliers with Showtime.

Kim: No doubt. Man. Look how far we’ve come since those days of chunky remote controls and room service movie menus.

Glenn: Yeah. What’s up? Tvs aren’t just boxes anymore. They’re portals.

Kim: Fast forward to 2025. Directv hospitality is teaming up with Google to launch the next generation of in-room entertainment.

Glenn: And we’re talking personalized streaming so I could watch Pauly Shore 24 over seven. Google cast built right in and access to all your favorites. Stuff that I hope to hear about one day. Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney, and more. Future sounds great.

Kim: When you’ve never heard of this before because you’re stuck in the 90s.

Glenn: I know, hold on. I think I got someone calling my beeper.

Kim: Hotel guests can log in securely with a QR code from any device and stream, just like they do at home.

Glenn: So whether you’re traveling for work, fun, or a 90s reunion tour or, like my case, still in the 90s, DirecTV Hospitality’s got your entertainment dialed in, baby on a rotary phone.

Kim: Back in the day when you could get free HBO on the weekends at a hotel to Google powered everything. Today, the future of hotel TV is so bright.

Glenn: You gotta wear shades. Yeah.