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Call Your Publicist is a podcast in a TV channel's clothing.
JMG PR's twice-weekly conversation about media strategy got a Roku channel in February 2026. It plays. There is not much else to say about it as a TV experience.
MAY 10, 2026
Moody Radio on Roku turns the TV into a faithful background companion.
A free, ad-free Christian radio bouquet from a 100-year-old Chicago broadcaster, ported to the living room with the bare minimum of TV-app polish.
MAY 10, 2026
Vlad and Niki on Roku is the YouTube channel your kid already won't stop asking for.
A free Roku port of one of the largest preschool brands on Earth — 530 million subscribers, billions of views, and a CARU finding that says the parent should be in the room.
MAY 10, 2026
KLST+ delivers San Angelo's CBS newscasts to Roku without asking for a login.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for KLST channel 8 carries live morning, midday and evening newscasts plus on-demand weather and Concho Valley reporting. The bar for local-news streaming apps is low, and KLST+ clears it without distinguishing itself.
MAY 10, 2026
OurQC+ is the local-news channel WHBF needed five years ago.
Nexstar's CBS 4 Quad Cities now has a free Roku channel that streams its newscasts, weather radar, and KLJB/Fox 18 packages. The bones are right; the polish isn't there yet.
MAY 10, 2026
KREX+ does the local-news job, and not much else.
Nexstar's CBS 5 channel for Grand Junction puts Western Slope newscasts and weather on the TV for free. The shell is a stock template, the ads are heavy, and that is roughly the deal you sign up for.
MAY 10, 2026
FourStates+ does the local-news job and almost nothing else.
Nexstar's Roku channel for KSNF NBC 16 in Joplin gives the four-state region its newscast on the big screen. Beyond that, it's a thin wrapper around a livestream and a clip reel.
MAY 10, 2026
KTAL Now is a competent local-news channel built for the four counties that already watch it.
Nexstar's free 24/7 stream of NBC 6 and Fox 33 newscasts gives Shreveport-Bossier-Texarkana viewers a cord-cut path to the same anchors they already know. Outside that DMA, there is nothing here for you.
MAY 10, 2026
Community Baptist Church PA brings one Coopersburg congregation to the living-room TV.
A single-church Roku channel for the independent Baptist congregation at 7350 Elementary Road in Coopersburg. Useful if you're a member or shut-in. Not a destination channel for anyone else.
MAY 10, 2026
New Years Eve Rockin' Musical is a $3.99 fireworks loop with a December shelf life.
A short ambient channel of firework displays set to music. Useful for one party a year, hard to justify the price tag for the other 364 days.
MAY 10, 2026
New Years Eve America Show is a $5.99 channel that runs once a year.
A patriotic pyromusical loop themed around America's 250th, charged as a paid app on a platform where the same developer gives away comparable countdown channels for free.
MAY 10, 2026
Doug Heady Weather is a hyperlocal channel built for one corner of four states.
A KOAM-TV chief meteorologist's standalone Roku channel, aimed at Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkansas, Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. Outside that footprint there is almost no reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
Southern TN Weather is exactly as niche as it sounds, and that is the point.
A hyper-local Roku channel covering seven Middle Tennessee counties with radar, alerts, and a small in-house meteorology team. If you live in Bedford or Coffee County, that is unusually valuable. Anywhere else, it is a curiosity.
MAY 10, 2026
Christine TV is a personal channel with almost no public footprint.
An independent classic-TV channel published in late 2025 by a single developer credit, with no website, no press, and no programming details outside the Roku listing itself.
MAY 10, 2026
1Ezlife is a white-label Roku channel that hasn't earned its slot yet.
Built on the Lightcast template that powers thousands of niche broadcaster channels, 1Ezlife arrived in late 2025 with little catalogue, no editorial direction, and no clear answer to the question of who installed it.
MAY 10, 2026
ETERNAL TV is a player shell for a grey-market IPTV subscription.
The Roku channel itself is a thin front-end. What it streams is somebody else's cable feed, repackaged at $15 a month with no licensing paperwork. We can describe what it does without endorsing it.
MAY 10, 2026
RokInSpace is a curio that proves Roku can still run a game.
An endless-runner set in the Solar System, free on the Channel Store, controlled with a five-button remote. Charming for ten minutes, thin after twenty.
MAY 10, 2026
Sawyer's Animal Wallpapers is a hobby project on a TV-app shelf.
A free, single-developer kids-and-family channel that puts animal images on the screen. There is not much more to say about it, and that is fine.
MAY 10, 2026
FuturoRed26 is a small Spanish-language curio in a noisy Roku store.
A free kids-and-family channel from FutureTV that lands without fanfare, without a description, and without an obvious reason to exist outside its own niche.
MAY 10, 2026
Nova Network Television is the kind of small Roku channel the platform quietly runs on.
A free lifestyle-and-culture network from a TvStartup-built channel, launched in January. It's modest, earnest, and exactly the long-tail Roku programming the big guides ignore.
MAY 10, 2026
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