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Streaming subscription services are only getting more expensive. If you still want to watch all your favorite movies and TV shows, where do you turn? There's a surprisingly affordable alternative: free, live TV streaming channels.
If you haven't explored your smart TV's home screen lately, you may be surprised to learn that most come equipped with built-in apps these days with mind-blowing, expansive libraries of free content.
While these channels are supported by ads, they offer hundreds of live channels for free, making them a great option for cutting the cord.
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Two of the biggest streamers that offer this free content are The Roku Channel and Google TV Freeplay. Both have hundreds of channels available across a wide range of categories, and both are easy to use. But only one can emerge victorious. Here's which service we crowned as the winner.
What free TV channels are available on Roku?
I can't say I'd ever truly looked at the live channels on The Roku Channel, so I was pretty surprised at how many channels there are. According to Roku, it offers more than 500 live TV channels, including over 100 free local channels.
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