This is the Best Free Way is to Watch Live Network TV – Live Local TV

Do you want to know the what the best free way is to watch live Network TV – Live Local TV Programming? This is it.

I’m basically going to walk you through two free, no sign up live internet TV streaming methods

Channel Repeaters

There’s something about watching a show live. A sense of connectedness, commitment and anticipation that you don’t experience with video on demand streaming.

Hulu falls into this category, but only by subscription. You can binge watch shows for a practically free subscription rate. However, you pay substantially more to get to watch live streaming network TV programming. Hulu is like cable pricing without any equipment or install costs.

That’s nice but what about absolutely free? Live broadcast network repeaters have been around for over 15 years, but mostly for news. Today, you can use video streaming websites with any device and watch cable TV networks. Plus NBC, ABC, and CBS, who has their own subscription service ironically. Nobody is buying into the notion that we the audience should have to buy a subscription to every TV network we want to see, likewise, for every podcast we want to hear.

There are streaming boxes that can search and replay free live TV and movie channels while removing any ads, sign-ins, or website overlays. So you can get a Roku and explore, at just the cost of the device.

The subscription TV market has been utterly disrupted by the emergence of direct streamers. I don’t know how they do it legally, but we now have sites that work on any wifi connection and an open browser. They are USTVGO.TV and USTV247.TV

Curated Shows

Netflix would top off this category if it was free. Hulu’s basic service works this way too. It would be impossible to claim every movie you want can be found in one collection. The services hope you simply are wanting something, anything, new.

There’s a lot of old public domain videos and then there’s new movies and live streams playing edited down recent show episodes. You see them when you YouTube Search for a title plus “full episode” and check out the results. It’s somewhat like pirate waters you’re sailing through like this. You can be sure of a few things, though. You will not be seeing much in HD quality even if the file is a high resolution .mp4 file. It will also suffer quality loss from being copied, converted, edited and converted for export. They skirt the copyright laws in several ways. They can crop down the screen, Then maybe zoom in and pan, alternating with  a few seconds of un-modified screen. I’ve seen them change the pitch of the audio and playback speed. Many times it’s a small 350 pixel wide video frame surrounded by a background. They might additionally put a vignette overlay to reduce the show’s visibility. To end this list is their use of color mods like hue, saturation and brightness or used video distorting effects on it. The point of all this is to degrade the video they’re uploading or streaming. If they can present less than 60% of the actual content, In theory, enough to keep it from being re-sold or re-purposed as a valuable unit of product.

A New Live Internet TV Option Has Arrived

What I’m really liking right now is a new streaming live internet-TV site run by Sinclair Media. You can get local live and simulated on demand shows for a selected media market like Chicago. Then you’ll get all but prime-time shows. It’s good enough for regional news, sports network feed and local programming.

Sinclair Media, through their many corporate takeovers of regional stations in media markets all across the USA. They have in this way collected re-run shows. They have been broadcasting these on all those categorized oldies channels. Now they are also creating hundreds of online live broadcast channels

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