How to Watch Live TV and Local Channels on Roku & Roku TV By Cord Cutting Report

Watching live TV on a Roku is pretty simple these days, even if you're, just looking for local channels that you used to watch on cable below dozens of companies are getting into the streaming game now, and they're all telling you that they're going to give you the best value for your money. So how do you find the free good stuff, and what's the best way to set yourself up with free, live TV and local channels for life? In this video I'm, going to break down all your best options for watching live, TV and local channels on a Roku or Roku TV I'll show you how to get live local channels such as CBS, ABC or Fox for free, so you can watch prime time, shows local news and live sports. I'll cover free ad-supported options and a couple of inexpensive ways to get channels such as CNN Fox, News AMC in ESPN. All of these tips are completely legal. You can start using most of them right away on your Roku, and they should be useful to you for the years to come. Just a heads-up, my first tip is going to require some extra equipment.

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Let's start with over-the-air channels, there's a simple one-two punch that can add a lot of local live TV channels such as CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and even PBS to your Roku. Buying a TV antenna makes a lot of sense, especially if you just got rid of cable, TV or an expensive satellite subscription. Like DirecTV with a TV antenna. You can get free local stations and a lot of sub channels that you didn't get before. Adding these channels to your Roku is pretty simple.

You just need either a separate, TV, tuner or DVR to watch free, over-the-air, TV channels on your Roku pick up an inexpensive DVR like a tableau duo, and you'll, be able to stream these channels to every streaming device tablet and smartphone in your house, and you can record whatever you want to set up a tableau. Dual light is easy because you're connecting just a few things into the back plug in the hard drive to the USB port connect the TV antenna to the jack there's a power adapter you need to plug in, and you can either plug in an Ethernet cord from your router or you can use Wi-Fi I used an app from my Android smartphone to complete the setup process, but if you don't have a smartphone handy, just hop on a PC to finish up with a channel scan during the setup process, you'll also need to download the tableau app to your Roku and that's it. I now have about 60 channels. Major networks like NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox and I have an attractive channel guide ways to record anything from professional sports for the most popular TV shows on broadcast networks. As far as TV antennas go, I use the clear stream Eclipse.

You can check out my in-depth review of the best indoor TV antennas at the end of this video. My top pick for an outdoor TV antenna is the top TV 400 antennas. Direct has a free tool. You can use to figure out what kind of TV antenna you need. I'll leave a link to that below just type in your zip code.

You'll see we're all broadcast towers are in your area, hit the view channels button for a list of channels that you should be able to get. If you own a Roku TV, then you don't need a tableau. Unless you want to record shows you can plug the TV antenna directly into the back. Your television and scan for channels under settings. Most Roku TVs have a built-in channel guide, including the TCL model that I have here for more on the tableau watch.

My video on the best mother DVRs in that video I also cover HD home run tuners, which is another inexpensive option that I like a lot hey. Let's talk about Pluto TV, an ad-supported television, Pluto TV is pretty much the leader in the realm of free live television. That's streamed online. Instead of through a cable cord or satellite feed, Pluto has 250 live TV channels and a massive, on-demand libraries of movies. An older TV shows that once appeared on Animal Planet, Discovery, Channel, Investigation Discovery, so what's the catch yeah, you still have to watch commercials just like with traditional TV and no, you can't skip through the commercials either.

The other thing is you're not getting traditional cable channels like NBC, ESPN or HGTV, but hey it's free and there's some perfect stuff on there. So get off the couch and use your commercial time wisely. I'm not gonna. Tell you what to do with the minute and a half. Actually I, don't want to know who Duty V is a decent way to catch up on news.

Go check out: CBS n, it's CBS's, first all-digital channel with actual live anchors and dedicated reporting all over the country. There's also a CBS n app that you can use on Roku as well. That will give you the same thing, but Pluto TV has its own news section with a bunch of different channels. While we're on the subject news, the news on app has pretty much. Every live local TV newscast that you'll need it's a huge resource, and you can just add it directly from the Roku channel store.

There are couple competitors to Pluto TV. You can find stir and zoom o that offer similar services, and if you dig around on stir and zoom o, you can find some gems that might appeal to you, but I'll. Let you do that on your own. As far as I'm concerned, Pluto TV has the best lineup of live TV channels and a huge movie library, that's worth digging through before I talk about a couple of cable, TV replacements, I'm gonna, give you one more option for free local channels. Low caste org is a nonprofit that live streams, local ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS to computers and most major streaming devices.

All you have to do is be in low caste coverage area. It's a quick way to add local live TV to your Roku or Roku. TV I can get 22 local channels on low-caste. You can easily add to the three dozen channels on your TV depending on where your live low caste requires you to create a profile to use its service, but it's free. You should expect to get hit up her donation while watching because it is a non-profit.

This one is for people who are sick of paying 150 to 200 bucks a month for cable still want to watch. CNN, Fox, News or ESPN live on a Roku. There were about half dozen live TV streaming services that offer huge channel lineups to replace your cable TV subscription. But if you're watching this video I'm going to assume that you just want the cheapest options out there for watching cable TV channels for a more comprehensive look at streaming live TV channels, you can check out my other video on the best live TV streaming services. Here are two picks you can consider right now.

Sling TV is one of the cheapest options around for live-streaming television channels, sling. Let you pick a core bundle. Sling Orange has a little over 30 channels, such as ESPN, AMC and AAA $30 a month. The other core bundle is sling blue, which has about 47 channels. Sling Blue has FX fs1, both National Geographic channels and regional NBC sports networks.

The sling blue bundle also offers local NBC and Fox, and some markets, but sling recommends using their service in addition to a TV antenna. One thing to be aware of is that ESPN is only on sling Orange, so if you want ESPN and NFL Network on sling Blu you're going to have to mash both the orange and the blue bundles together for $45 a month. Sling TV now gives you 10 hours of cloud DVR on the house that can get you by for a few TV shows, or you can get 50 hours, DVR space for an extra five dollars a month. Sling TV is built on the premise for ranked smaller bundles, so budget minded people have more control over cost and channels are added to their subscription. Sling offers a lot of add-on bundles for sports entertainment and more niche channels such as international sports I'll leave a link below, so you can peruse the sling TV channel line up or sign up for a free 7-day trial.

If you're, not a sports fan whatsoever, Phil has 59 live TV channels, any History, Channel, Discovery, HGTV, Travel, Channel, paramount, Network, all the hallmark channels, and it's $20 a month. There is unlimited cloud DVR and a huge, on-demand library of movies and TV shows in case you missed it. There are no sports and no local channels. It's the cheapest way to watch a Walking Dead on AMC or live PD on A&E. Here's a neat hack for activating TV apps on a Roku that no one ever really talks about.

If you're paying for a live TV service such as Phil or sling TV, you can use your subscription to sign in to a lot of apps that you see on your streaming device. Each streaming service has a help page listing the TV Everywhere apps that it supports. So if you want to sign in to the AMI app, and you're subscribed to Phil just choose Phil as your TV provider instead of Comcast DirecTV or whatever you were subscribing to before. Sometimes these apps are worth signing in to not so much for the on-demand content, but because they carry extra live streams of their channels. That you won't get within your live TV subscription.

So now that I've shared with you a few ways to watch, live TV and free local channels on a Roku. What options are you gonna? Try out? Let me know in the comments below if this video helped you out consider giving it a like or subscribing to the channel. I really appreciate it, and if you're going to buy a Roku or try out a streaming service, I'd appreciate it if you'd use the links below as a way to support the channel for more how-to guides and product reviews head over. My website called cutting report. Comm thanks a lot, and I'll see you next time.

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