My favourite free TV streaming service now has 250 reside channels

I’ve so many fond recollections of when streaming was truly low cost. I bear in mind when YouTube TV was simply $35 a month, Disney+ was $7, and Netflix’s premium plan was solely $12. Sadly, these days are lengthy gone, and streaming costs simply keep climbing. One vivid spot, although, has been the rise of FAST (free ad-supported tv) streaming providers.

Apps like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Tubi, Plex, and MyFree DirecTV have grown in reputation due to the wide range of free TV channels they provide, making it simpler than ever to observe your favourite exhibits and flicks with out paying a dime. Even large firms like Google have jumped on the pattern, with Google launching “free channels” on Google TV in 2023. In late 2024, Google rebranded them as Google TV Freeplay — and since then, the variety of free channels has grown exponentially.

Now, in accordance with 9to5Google, Google TV Freeplay has over 250 free channels, due to a batch of latest additions simply earlier than the vacations. There’s one thing for everybody, with highlights together with NBC Sports activities Now, BBC Drama, The Graham Norton Present, America’s Obtained Expertise, and loads of Common-themed channels like Common Monsters, Common Motion pictures, Common Motion, and Common Westerns.

If you wish to discover all of the channels Google TV Freeplay gives, together with the 1,000+ different free reside TV channels throughout totally different FAST providers, simply head to the “Stay” tab on the Google TV residence display. You could find a whole checklist of all the brand new channels beneath.

All the brand new Google TV Freeplay channels

There are 48 new free channels in whole

Credit score: Google / Pocket-lint

Google has added a mixture of leisure and native channels in its newest Google TV Freeplay replace, and so they’re all now obtainable. Nevertheless, these channels are solely accessible within the US. If you happen to’re outdoors the US, you may want to show to different free reside TV providers, like Roku or Plex.

This is the total checklist of latest Google TV Freeplay channels added this December (through Google and 9to5Google):

Leisure/Sports activities

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• American Crimes (True Crmz)
• America’s Obtained Expertise
• American Ninja Warrior
• Antiques Highway Journey
• BBC Drama
• Bizaar
• Bravo Million Greenback Itemizing Vault
• Bravo Actual Housewives Vault
• Bravo Vault
• Darkish Matter TV
• EarthDay 365
• E! Preserving Up
• Filmrise: Anime
• Hang-out TV
• Ok-Pop by CJ Enm
• Lassie
• Depart It To Beaver
• Little Home on the Prairie
• Murdoch Mysteries
• NBC Comedy Vault
• NBC Sports activities Now
• Ninja Kidz TV
• Oxygen: True Crime Archives
• Saved By The Bell
• SNL Vault
• Swerve Girls’s Sports activities
• The Graham Norton Present
• The Lone Ranger
• Common Motion
• Common Monsters
• Common Motion pictures
• Common Westerns

Information/native stations

• Motion Information Jax (CBS 47 Fox 30)
• Boston 25 Information
• Kiro 7 Seattle
• NBC LX Information
• Oan Plus
• Telemundo Deportes Ahora
• Telemundo Noticias California
• Telemundo Noticias Florida
• Telemundo Noticias Noeste
• Telemundo Noticias Texas
• WFTV 9 Orlando
• WHIOTV 7 Dayton Ohio Now
• WSB Now Atlanta
• WSOC 9 Now Charlotte
• WPXI Pittsburgh

As I discussed earlier, if these Google TV Freeplay channels do not seize your consideration, there are many different free reside TV choices to discover, like Roku, Plex, Pluto TV, and even Prime Video. That mentioned, Google TV Freeplay gives a few of the greatest channels, in my view, and you’ll try its full checklist of channels here.

In different Google TV information, Google has additionally begun rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to the Google TV Streamer.