Roku Live TV Guide includes tons of free channels: Here's what you get

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The Roku Live Telly Guide is the latest salvo in the gratis side of the big streaming state of war. Introduced today, Roku Live Idiot box Guide is a new way for audiences to detect complimentary TV channels (both alive and non) without installing a unmarried app.

There are more than 100 channels in the Roku Live Tv set Guide, and those channels are referred to equally live and linear, like to what you find in Pluto TV. So, when Roku calls it a Alive Goggle box Guide, know that some of its programming is live, and other content is not. Linear in this case ways aired on a schedule.

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The Live TV Guide has all the visual trappings of the TV guide that traditional TV offers, letting you roll horizontally to navigate fourth dimension slots and vertically to scroll through channels.

Roku has likewise revealed how much information technology'south grown The Roku Channel's free and premium streaming content library, which has grown from 200 or so titles to 100,000, with 20,000 kids and family selections.

Roku Alive TV Guide release engagement

Roku Live Television set Guide began appearing in the Roku Aqueduct app on June 1. Roku'south releasing Live TV Guide in staggered waves, similar when Instagram rolls out a new characteristic to select groups of users over a bridge of months.

Roku Live Tv Guide channels

The launch of Roku Live Television receiver Guide happens every bit Roku launches the 100-plus live and/or linear 'channels' that will incorporate the service. Those channels are broken into six different groups:

News: ABC News Alive, Blackness News Channel, Cheddar, Newsy, Now This, Reuters, USA Today, Yahoo Finance, WeatherNation

Movies and TV: Crime360, FilmRise Activity, FilmRise Classic Television, FilmRise Family, FilmRise Costless Movies, Gravitas Movies, Redbox Free Movies, Voyager Documentaries

Sports: ACC Digital Network, Take chances Sports Network, bein sports xtra, Border Sport, Fubo Sports Network, Outside Idiot box

Amusement: BET Pluto, CMT Pluto, Comedy Fundamental Pluto, Deal or No Deal, Game Show Central, MTV Pluto

Kids: Ameba, battery pop, Kidz Bop, Rainbow Carmine, Teletubbies, Kid Gamer TV, pocket watch, Toon Goggles, Toon Goggles Jr.

Home design and lifestyle: Bon Appétit, The Bob Ross Aqueduct, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, GQ, Food52, Vanity Fair, This Old Business firm, Vogue

Spanish language: AFV en Español, américatevé, Latido Music, Dearest Nature en Español,

Of course, these channels are ad-driven, which is how they're gratis.

Roku Live TV Guide design and interface

To movement back from live content to the Roku Live Telly Guide and the actual channels, users tin press left on the Roku remote. In the guide window, pressing left once again lets you jump to the list of channels you've viewed well-nigh recently.

That's important, because while the grid of channels is organized by category, nobody wants to click through 100 channels to observe the right one. The Star/Asterisk push button lets you view channels past grouped lists.

Organized by chronological order, Roku Live Telly Guide shows the next 12 hours of programming, and then you can come across what'southward coming up afterward on. That existence said, there is no search feature, something that we hope Roku figures out in the coming months.

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