TAG · 28 REVIEWS
Live TV
Every App Comrade review tagged Live TV, across every platform.
KRG Live is a single-channel Fire TV stream with no description and no context.
A free Lifestyle app built on the Lightcast white-label streaming stack, listed under a three-letter acronym and shipped with zero store-page copy.
MAY 11, 2026
MoiTV is Cambodia's state broadcaster on your phone, with all that implies.
A free streaming app from the Ministry of Interior that delivers local channels and government bulletins — useful for Cambodians abroad, but never neutral.
MAY 11, 2026
Hulu's iPhone app is a holding pattern waiting for the Disney+ merger.
The catalogue is still the best mix of next-day network TV and prestige originals on any streamer, but the app itself has barely moved while Disney prepares to fold it into a single unified player.
MAY 11, 2026
Paramount+ is finally one app instead of three.
The CBS All Access rebrand, the Showtime merger, and the Skydance takeover have left a streamer that knows what it owns and has mostly stopped fighting itself about it.
MAY 11, 2026
Paramount+ on Android is a deep catalog stitched to a middling app.
The library — Star Trek, Yellowstone spinoffs, CBS live, Champions League, the Paramount film vault — punches above the app that delivers it.
MAY 11, 2026
Armnet TV puts Armenian living-room television on LG webOS.
A free diaspora-focused channel app from Netherlands-based Digital Technologies B.V., streaming Armenian-language TV to LG smart TVs outside Armenia.
MAY 11, 2026
Urban Edge Network gives HBCU sports the streaming home it's earned.
A free Roku channel built around historically Black colleges and universities — football, basketball, baseball, and the cultural programming around them — in one place that doesn't ask for a cable login.
MAY 11, 2026
Live TV Streaming Channels is the generic Roku tile you should think twice about installing.
A no-description channel from a two-letter developer, published mid-2025, promising live TV. The category is full of these, and most of them aren't what they appear to be.
MAY 11, 2026
ARG TV gives the Argentine diaspora a Roku tile worth pinning.
A small private channel built to pipe Argentine programming into living rooms outside the country. It does one job, mostly does it well, and reminds you how much the long tail of Roku is built on apps like this.
MAY 11, 2026
IPTV Player - Smart Live TV is a blank shell published by a fitness agency.
An empty player app from a developer called Playfit Training Agency, filed under Kids & Family on the Roku Channel Store. None of those three facts line up, and that is the review.
MAY 11, 2026
WOSN is a four-letter call sign hoping you already know what it stands for.
A Lightcast-powered sports channel that lands on Roku with no description, no logo callout, and no on-store explanation of which league, region, or sport you're about to watch.
MAY 11, 2026
DIRECTV In Motion turns a private jet's Roku into a charter-grade lounge.
DIRECTV's post-AT&T mobility arm ships its private-aviation feed as a Roku channel. The catalogue is real; the audience is not you.
MAY 11, 2026
WISH-TV's app is the rare local-news client that earns its install.
Indianapolis viewers rate Circle City Broadcasting's standalone news app well above the local-TV-app average, and the reasons hold up.
MAY 10, 2026
Tubi turned a free movie dump into the third-biggest TV channel in America.
Fox's free streamer now owns 6.2% of ad-supported viewing, runs 260+ live channels, and asks for nothing but your attention between breaks.
MAY 10, 2026
Tubi keeps the bargain, but the ads are testing it.
Fox's free-with-ads streamer still has the deepest catalog of forgotten movies and weird TV on Android. The trade is a mid-roll cadence that feels heavier each quarter.
MAY 10, 2026
1SpotMedia brings Caribbean television to the LG living room.
Radio Jamaica's streaming service ports a focused catalogue of Caribbean live TV and on-demand programming to webOS, and on a big screen it finally feels at home.
MAY 10, 2026
iMPlayer is the playlist-loader power users reach for first.
A long-running webOS/Tizen IPTV brand built around per-user playlists, an EPG that actually parses XMLTV correctly, and a settings menu that respects people who know what they want.
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
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
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
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
OzarksFirst+ brings Springfield's local news to Samsung TVs without much ceremony.
Nexstar's KOLR/KOZL FAST channel for the Ozarks lands on Tizen as a free, signed-in livestream-and-VOD app aimed squarely at viewers in the Springfield-Branson DMA.
MAY 10, 2026
JET 247 puts Erie's ABC affiliate on the Samsung TV home row.
Nexstar's Tizen port of the WJET 24/7 newsroom feed — same Erie, Pennsylvania local-news stream, now sitting one click from Live TV on a Samsung set.
MAY 10, 2026
LouisianaFirst+ brings the Nexstar local-news bundle to Samsung TVs.
A free, ad-supported Tizen channel for Louisiana's Nexstar affiliates — live newscasts, weather, sports, and on-demand clips, with no login and no cable subscription.
MAY 10, 2026
Vivo TV is a small regional channel app that does the basics.
screen craft solutions has shipped a niche live-TV app to Samsung Tizen, aimed at viewers of a specific regional broadcaster. The ambition is narrow, the execution is plain, and for the right audience it works.
MAY 9, 2026
Hulu on LG webOS is the same Hulu, on the same death watch.
Disney's 2026 consolidation of Hulu into Disney+ applies to LG webOS the same way it applies to Roku and Samsung Tizen. The webOS app works fine for now.
MAY 8, 2026
Hulu on Roku is a working app on a death watch.
Disney is folding Hulu into the Disney+ app over the course of 2026. The Roku channel still works. The Nintendo Switch one shut down in February. There is a clock on this app.
MAY 8, 2026
Hulu on Samsung TV is on the same death watch as the Roku version.
Disney's planned 2026 consolidation of Hulu into Disney+ applies across every smart-TV platform. The Tizen Hulu app works for now. The Disney+ install is the future.
MAY 8, 2026