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Lotus Screensaver turns an idle TV into a quiet flower stand.
A free, ad-free Roku channel that fills the screen with still and slow-moving lotus imagery when the TV would otherwise sit on a logo carousel. Small, single-purpose, and exactly what it says on the tile.
MAY 10, 2026
Sony Pictures FYC is a studio's screening room with the door locked.
A single-studio awards-consideration channel that exists to put one slate of films in front of credentialed voters. Outside that audience it has nothing to offer, and that's the point.
MAY 10, 2026
Beach Screensaver is the Roku channel you install before guests arrive.
A free loop of shoreline footage that turns the TV into ambient furniture. It works, it's quiet, and it asks for nothing — which is exactly the brief.
MAY 10, 2026
Free Movies Club is a small free-movie channel with a single developer behind it.
An ad-supported Roku channel from a solo developer, launched late 2025. Take it on its own scale — not as a Tubi or Pluto alternative.
MAY 10, 2026
Lighthouse Screensaver turns an idle Roku into a coastal painting.
A free channel from a solo developer that loops still photography of lighthouses across the living-room TV. It does one thing, and the one thing is calmer than whatever the Roku home screen wants to show you.
MAY 10, 2026
Nicaragua Premium Tv is a small diaspora channel doing one job.
A free Roku channel from Tilingo Tv aimed at Nicaraguans living in the US who want a window back home on the living-room screen.
MAY 10, 2026
WAVE TV is an indie Roku channel chasing a crowded name.
A free, ad-free movies and TV channel from an independent developer called Thomas, listed under the tagline Connect, create, share. The pitch is broader than the catalogue.
MAY 10, 2026
IMUTV is a small free music-video channel still finding its shape.
Independent Music Universe's Roku channel arrived in late 2025 with a music-and-TV remit and not much else to go on. It's free, ad-supported, and very much a first draft.
MAY 10, 2026
Grace Fellowship MI brings a single Michigan congregation to the living-room TV.
A small church's Roku channel built on Subsplash's template — narrow on purpose, faithful to the people it serves, and welcome on a screen the family already gathers around.
MAY 10, 2026
ON AIR LIVE is a quiet faith-broadcast channel that asks almost nothing of you.
A small ministry-run Roku channel from Gifts From The Giver In Christ Min, Inc — free, ad-free, and stripped to the single job of putting their broadcast on your TV.
MAY 10, 2026
PRTV PREMIUM is a Roku channel that tells you almost nothing before you install it.
An individually-developed channel published in late 2025 with no description, no developer site link, and two screenshots. It costs nothing to try and almost nothing to walk away from.
MAY 10, 2026
Panhandle Weather turns the living-room TV into a regional radar.
A free indie Roku channel from a single developer, aimed at people who want the local forecast on the big screen without opening a phone or a browser.
MAY 10, 2026
Yoga Videos - Relax & Stretch is a free on-ramp, not a yoga studio.
A no-cost Roku channel that pipes a rotating library of stretch and relaxation videos to the TV. Useful for the first month of a habit, thin after that.
MAY 10, 2026
Escape is a generic-named small-publisher channel doing the bare minimum.
A free, ad-supported movies-and-TV channel from a UK indie publisher, released November 2025. The icon and name promise more than the catalogue delivers.
MAY 10, 2026
Journy TV is a quiet travel channel still finding its altitude.
NextTrip's free Roku channel runs destination videos and travel shows without an ad break or a sign-in wall. The catalogue is shallow, the production is mixed, and the discovery surface is bare — but it costs nothing and respects your evening.
MAY 10, 2026
Vietface TV brings the Little Saigon broadcast day onto the living-room stick.
A free Vietnamese-language channel from Vyrtue Media Network aimed squarely at the Vietnamese-American diaspora. Programming-first, design-thin, exactly the brief.
MAY 10, 2026
Verdunville Church of God brings a small West Virginia congregation onto the living-room TV.
A modest faith-based channel from a single congregation in Logan County. Its ambition is local, and that's the right ambition for what it is.
MAY 10, 2026
Santa Screensaver turns a Roku into a $2 December decoration.
A paid seasonal screensaver from a one-person developer. It does one thing for six weeks of the year and then sits dormant on the channel list.
MAY 10, 2026
Yoga Shala TV picks a lane and stays in it.
A free, single-purpose yoga channel from a small studio operator. Nothing flashy, no subscription wall — just classes streamed to the TV in the room you'd actually unroll a mat in.
MAY 10, 2026
CBS 42+ puts Birmingham's tornado coverage on the right screen.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for WIAT 42 carries the central Alabama CBS newscasts, the Storm Team weather block, and live cut-ins during severe weather. In tornado country, that's not a feature — it's the entire reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
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