TV

“Cable TV” online analogs

Works fine on Chromebook and others (Tablet, Linux, etc.)
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/

Works on ROKU, has worked on Android tablet, having issues on Chromebook at present:
https://pluto.tv/us/live-tv/

Works on my ROKU but not on the Chromebook (endless spinning wait):
https://www.crackle.com/

Alternative Video non-Youtube

Note that I’m not including things like Facebook videos, TED Talks, and even Twitter Videos (yet) as historically these have had bias / editorial issues. Until I do more “vetting” on the list, they are in the “maybe later” bucket. I’m sure if you want them you can find them anyway.

My present favorite, Odysee:

https://odysee.com/

Just behind it, Rumble:

https://rumble.com/

Howtube has Kosmographia:

https://www.howtube.com/

Bitchute. One of the first alternatives:
Has Dave Cullen, Salty Cracker, The Quartering, Banned Video (Alex Jones), Rubin Report, Podcast Of The Lotus Eaters (Carl Benjamin – “cancelled” for stating the truth clearly and in a humorous way), Prager U and a whole lot more.

https://www.bitchute.com/

Rokfin: Had not heard of this one until The Duran said they were on it. Jay Dyer too.

https://rokfin.com/discover

Vidlii: Claims “Famous 2012 YouTube Channel layout is finally on Vidlii”. Does look pleasant and familiar in a “want to explore more” kind of way. This one needs exploring and looks like a keeper, maybe.

https://www.vidlii.com/

Locals: Has a lot of Name Names. Pick the person you like and follow them in their “community”:
https://locals.com/

9gag: Looks to be all about humor and with a lot of shorts and memes. I think it will be fun to explore on downer days ;-)

https://9gag.com/tag/video

Internet Archive (Wayback machine) has movies:

https://archive.org/details/movies

Vimeo: Lots of login nags (that you can bypass) and mostly Artsy stuff at first glance.

https://vimeo.com/watch

Twitch: Has a whole lot of Live Feeds of all sorts of stuff.
https://www.twitch.tv/

Top Level is a bit klunky, but the topics look interesting. Popup for email and subscribe nag.
https://www.brighteon.com/

Has a sort of European feel. Some French & German. Bits of Japanese. Artsy vibe bit with non-art videos.
https://playeur.com/

Dailymotion: Has a Cookie Nag. Looks like a lot of Social Magazine type stuff. Glitz, Glamour, and Fame. So not my kind of thing, mostly. But maybe for others.

https://www.dailymotion.com/us

“A shared open video collection” Open Video: Looks like you get to “Go Fish” for things. Whatever they might be.

https://open-video.org/

D.Tube: I get the top level with a side panel of category choices, but when I pick one it is just the spinning circle…

https://d.tube/

Others to explore (and for me to rank, eventually):

Peertube has a bunch of sites. To become a creator. Search content. Etc. This one finds channels for you:

https://joinpeertube.org/instances

Real.Video is having DNS issues as I test it.
https://www.real.video/

The GNU approach: MediaGoblin.

https://mediagoblin.org/

One must search for users, but the list looks slim at the moment:
https://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Live_instances

https://www.veoh.com/

Has a list of “alternatives for kids” that I need to look at later:
https://nordvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/

Invidious is a an open source front end to YouTube that hides commercials and blocks tracking:

https://invidio.us/

(Github entry here: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious )

Why?

I have moved to online TV. Why? Well, for one thing, bundles of TV has become a bit of a wasteland.

Now YouTube (aka EwTube) has become a pain to use. (Censorship, about 1/3 advertising, banned channels that I like, constant push to make a “login account” to better track me). So I’m updating this page (editing in progrees) to have many more links to all the “alternative providers” of video content / channels, and remove a lot of things that are now irrelevant to what I watch.

The Wiki list – it is long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms surprisingly, includes a list of “porn” sites. Who knew Wiki was “into” that…

Youtube & Other Channels I Use sometimes

Note To Self: Find alternative sources and / or just drop them. -EMS

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-12-sites-watch-videos-youtube/

BBC Channels on Rumble: https://rumble.com/search/all?q=BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news

BBC World News: https://rumble.com/c/BBCWorldNews

DW News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNosnzCaS4I

https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

Fox (Not live): https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel/

The Rumble links are basically useless. Weeks or months old or just dead. Clearly Fox is protecting their cable business. https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Fox%20News

France24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ydto3Iyzic

https://www.france24.com/en/

Newsmax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INDQmzbHhI8

https://rumble.com/NewsmaxTV

RT – Russia Today (not live): https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday

https://www.rt.com/
https://rumble.com/RTNews
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=RT
https://rumble.com/c/RTNews

SKY News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg

Alternative Broadcasters

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/category/news/

This list needs review / update. Trump’s video sources / sites like Truth Social are absent. That will take a while.

Not your traditional TV Networks. Typically small, some, like Periscope, are “Citizen Provided” programming. They often have a ‘feedback’ feature where you can send a text snip to the broadcaster.

Trump TV via Facebook

(with an annoying pop up ‘log in to avoid this crap’ that only partly goes away if you decline to log in):

https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/videos/

Others:

Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/ Citizen Journalists & Performers.

Rightside Broadcasting: http://rsbn.tv/ live and recorded events with a right POV. Choose live events, video archive, or their Shows.

Got News: http://gotnews.com/ seems mostly oriented to print, but includes a YouTube channel:

http://gotnews.com/youtube-podcast/

I’m putting PBS here as it isn’t a typical commercial broadcaster but is ‘viewer supported’ (along with tax dollars…)

http://www.pbs.org/video/

I’m also putting Deutsche Welle here as they have a variety of shows and remind me of PBS in tone and web site design:

DW Deutsche Welle. OK, first off, you click on the “TV” tab up top (that is faded out as you land on a different tab by default). That gives this odd looking URL at the moment. We’ll see if it changes over time:

http://www.dw.com/en/tv/s-1452

DW also has a ‘live news’ link, that I’ll put under the news tab down below.

Internet Bundles & Bundlers

Online.tv has an extensive listing of channels, sorted by category along the left panel. I’ll be adding some of their specific lists, such as news, under headings here (at least until I sort out the specific channels I wish to highlight directly). It includes many local US stations under various topic headings.

Online.tv: http://www.onlinetv.net/

http://www.webmaster-gratuit.com/tele/tele-liste.htm List of 200 stations around the world, French and English

Uptream has a LOT of detail in their lower menues. From “Live free” to comparisons of paid satellite providers. Worth wandering around. As I find things there I care about, I’ll add specific links in categories here. Your preference may differ, so “hit the link”. Be advised the top level tries to sell you their commercial streaming services, so you need to hunt a little for the video.

Ustream.tv: http://www.ustream.tv/
They have a bunch of channels, including the NASA channel in this grouping, here:

http://www.ustream.tv/explore/allr

Lots of channels and categories listed. (h/t Larry Ledwick in a comment here.

Streema: http://streema.com/tv/

Misc. Odd Languages and Lesser Used Channels

French

From France (h/t LG in comments) includes some US and other stations:

Gratuit.com (“free”.com) http://www.webmaster-gratuit.com/tele/tele-information.htm

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Sports

Football – American

Recorded football games (h/t tucsonaustrian):

NoonKick: http://noonkick.com/

Football – Rest Of World (USA Soccer)

From, with h/t:

A C Osborn says:
28 September 2016 at 5:34 pm (Edit)
Sport Internet Channels (they are predominantly Soccer as that is what we watch most in the UK)

http://www.nowfeed2all.eu/type/football.html

http://goatdee.net/

http://www.stream2watch.cc/

http://bosscast.net/

http://www.getyourfixtures.com/uk

http://cricfree.sx/football-live-stream

http://firstrowsportes.com/soccer

http://www.lshunter.net/live/

http://mamahd.com/chelsea-live-stream2-1

http://www.vipleague.is/sports/football.html

Some do not like Ad Blockers and some require joining for free.

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Religion

Catholic and Catholic Mass:

http://www.heartofthenation.org/online-mass/sunday-mass

http://www.ewtn.com/

Has various programs for a Catholic audience, including drama, mass, and some in Spanish along with the English:

http://www.catholictv.com/watch-live

Mass via Upstream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Catholic-Church-Mass

Non-Catholic / Misc:

United Christian Broadcasters (from the UK and no, I don’t know who they are, just here due to my curiosity)

http://www.ucb.co.uk/ucblive

I think these folks were more evangelical. Now with “new” Pop Up nag for a ‘free’ book that doesn’t go away on reload, so I’ll not be watching them until that is gone:

http://www.revelationtv.com/

“Love World”… again, just curious as it is from the UK.

http://www.loveworldtv.co.uk/watch-live/

Not TV, But useful if watching Religious shows:

All those funny names of places got you down? Want to know where they are? Here’s your Biblical atlas:

http://bibleatlas.org/nile_river.htm

They are using some weird Bible version you don’t own? A nice way to get a Bible with variations on line, since if you are watching services on line they may be using a version different from yours:

http://biblehub.com/

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Financial Channels

http://www.bloomberg.com/live

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Live News

General USA networks

CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/live/

MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live

USA centric aggregator list

Online.tv: http://www.onlinetv.net/category/news

From the UK

h/t to LG in comments below for:

Sky News: http://news.sky.com/watch-live
(While LG says some places blocked and to watch via VPN, I’m getting it clear and live in California It is now blocked ‘in my location’; go figure… I did have a popup ‘accept cookies?’ that froze the video even after clicking ‘yes’ and I needed a reload on the Chromebox.) It looks like their geolocation “has issues” sporadically…

From France

Frnace24: http://www.france24.com/en/ (Mostly in English…)

Direct to the news:www.france24.com/en/vod/latest-news

France24: http://www.webmaster-gratuit.com/tele/france24.htm en français

h/t to LG in comments below for:

BMF TV en direct (in French): http://www.webmaster-gratuit.com/tele/bfmtv.htm

iTélé en direct (in French) http://www.webmaster-gratuit.com/tele/itele.htm

From Germany

http://www.dw.com/en/media-center/live-tv/s-100825

The Russia Today Cluster

RT: https://www.rt.com/on-air/
(Presently running very high quality video from inside Allepo. Why I like them, they get to places other folks can’t.)

RT America: https://www.rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/

RT UK: https://www.rt.com/on-air/rt-uk-air/

RT Documentaries: https://rtd.rt.com/on-air/

Global Aggregator:

http://wwitv.com/news_tv_live/index.html

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Canned News Stories

Often “you pick” so you can pick your topic, but rarely really fast news.

BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world_radio_and_tv
(has tabs where you can narrow your geography to parts of the world)

Claims live, but looks like packaged stories to me, Euronews:

http://www.euronews.com/live

http://www.onlinetv.net/united-kingdom/euronews-2
(This may get moved to the aggregator listing once examined)

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch.html

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Various Local TV Stations, by Region

Due to licencing issues, the local station usually can not webcast the various series and movies they licence from content owners, nor the national sports leagues games. For that reason, these links usually just show local news, weather, sports, or anything that they have created locally. You can find stations for most areas via a web search on: “online TV {name_of_city}”. There are way more than I can list here.

The South

Florida, Orlando: http://www.fox35orlando.com/

Georgia, Atlanta: http://www.fox5atlanta.com/live

Kentucky, Lexington?: http://www.wkyt.com/video

La., New Orleans: http://www.wwltv.com/ but it looks like the videos are all here:

http://www.wwltv.com/media/videos

Texas, Waco (Central): http://www.kxxv.com/video

The West

California, Los Angeles: http://abc7.com/video/

California, Los Angeles, Ch.4: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/

East BosWash / NYC

Boston: http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/ for canned videos, live, that is only up “sometimes” here:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/show/cbs-boston-live-video/

Midwest / Chicago

Chicago: http://wgntv.com/on-air/live-streaming/

Alaska

Anchorage: http://www.ktva.com/stream/

Hawaii

Honolulu: http://www.kitv.com/

Claims to want Microsoft Silverlight installed for out of time sync viewing (has limited hours). As Silverlight is evil, I’d avoid it. Also a Honolulu station:

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/category/198303/livestream

Honolulu. Olelo Community TV:http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=88 Claims to demand a login at the top level, but this link worked…

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National / Language Stations I have viewed and worked

This list will reflect my language interests. Those are mostly French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Feel free to point me at others in tips.

French:

http://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/live-video/

(Also via gratuit.com under ‘news’ down below)

Portuguese:

The .pt is Portugal while .br is Brazil.

I’ve used all these Portuguese links without issue, or at least, none that I noticed ;-)

http://redesuper.com.br/assista-online/

http://tvbrasil.ebc.com.br/webtv

http://www.rtp.pt/tv/

http://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtp3

A list of more links here:

http://www.portuguesweb.com/tv_gratis_portugues.htm

Euronews em Portuguese:

http://pt.euronews.com/live

Not TV, but a newspaper, IIRC:

http://www.acheiusa.com/

BBC em Portuguese:

http://www.bbc.com/portuguese
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Requires Account / Login / “Authentication” / Payments/ Whatever…

Looks like RFDTV has some live content, but nags for a ROKU account or “Sign In to the Country Club or make an account”. RFDTV is a Rural America and Farmers channel:

RFDTV: http://www.rfdtv.com/category/268316/rural-lifestyle-programming-line-up

CSPAN: https://www.c-span.org/networks/ Sometimes live, often recorded.

Two that are like cable but cheaper and without the cable:

Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/welcome

Slingbox: https://www.sling.com/

Then there is the time honored Netflix. Low cost on the go movies and series. Also useless for news or other live events:

NetFlix: https://www.netflix.com/browse

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You must login with your “provider” info
i.e. already have it on paid Cable or Satellite

OK, it’s a “service” I guess… but not for “Cord Cutters” dropping out of that paradigm. So I’m listing it down here near the bottom. It exists, but of what use is it to me? Not much, it seems…

Fox News: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1241186546001/fox-news-channel/?#sp=watch-live

Fox Biz: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1251429410001/fox-business-network/?#sp=watch-live

DirecTV is already mergered by The Death Star AT&T, while CNN and TCM are under the merger gun now… Oh well, I can easily live without them…

CNN: http://go.cnn.com/
(Gives me an ‘error reload’ on the Chromebox… it’s “special”… Works on Tablet in Opera.)

TCM http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/livestream/ Requires login with you provider ID. As part of Time Warner, being absorbed by AT&T so who knows what the future holds.

DirecTV lets those who are buying the service at home get it while “on the road”, kinda sorta… Not live, but saved / time delayed:

https://www.directv.com/entertainment

Fine for series (though I was watching Dexter one week late when ‘on the road’… kind of a pain if you are only on the road for a few days and do not want to miss THIS WEEK’s episode of a suspense murder mystery… Can you say “Unclear on the concept?”… Also a bit useless for news.
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Prior Postings

First off, the prior posting links. I’ll eventually incorporate their links here, sorted and with details, but for now, just the links. Oh, and expect this page to evolve over time and do not expect it to be a finished product for months to years. Order will take time to grow.:

An older posting on Internet TV. From 2012, so may be dated. I’m going to fish through it and pull the current links into this page as specific types.:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/internet-tv/

From a couple of years later, as I was “on the road” and needed some specialized things (like Catholic Mass and Brazilian stations) along with general interest. I’ll also be fishing through it and pulling links up into categories here.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/some-online-tv-links/

Then there is WUWT TV (on-air sometimes) from a TV show Anthony Watts did:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/wuwt-tv/

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wuwt-tv-live
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Experimental / Foreign From Here On Down

WARNING!!!

Stuff from here on down is not vetted in any way.

I Have No Idea If These Sites Are Virus Ridden Or Not

I’ve done no reputational search, nor have I tested the sited (run it with a sniffer on the network, run it on a testing / isolated platform). I’ve stumbled on these links, and, for now, they are here as “need proving up” at best.

Being from outside the USA, and names I don’t know:
I have no idea who these folks are.

At best, I’ve run one or two as a test case and even then only on the Chromebox (which I consider fairly hardened compared to MS and which is 100% ‘disposable’ config so I’m happy to just press ‘reset to factory’ anytime).

Non-United States – English & Mixed or Unknown

http://wwitv.com/

Non-United States – Foreign Language

This list will reflect my language interests. Those are mostly French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Feel free to point me at others in tips.

French:

Either this next one, or the 52mx.tv after it, caused the browser in the Chromebox to give “unresponsive script” warnings and act a bit doggy after a test run of the link. I rebooted to clear (as is my standard action when “something seems wrong” after an untested link – it can disrupt a script attack before it completes…). You have been warned (and feedback welcome if you are brave enough to test them in an isolated kit).

http://www.filmesdetv.com/ A collection of movies. The site is French, but I’m not sure what all languages might be in all the movies. Some links refused to connect. Some have “activate your account to view”. Basically, this is The Wild West in terms of vetting, so use care. Mostly here as a “Dig Here!” someday when I have time to watch movies ;-)

Spanish:

Mexican TV:

Either 52mx.tv or the ‘free movies’ under French above, caused the browser in the Chromebox to give “unresponsive script” warnings and act a bit doggy after a test run of the link. I rebooted to clear (as is my standard action when “something seems wrong” after an untested link – it can disrupt a script attack before it completes…). You have been warned (and feedback welcome if you are brave enough to test them in an isolated kit).

http://52mx.tv/ Not explored yet. May need ‘activation’ and not vetted.

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