The Roku Channel is an over-the-top video streaming service available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the UK. The service was launched in 2017, and is owned and operated by

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. It is the most popular

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(FAST) service in the U.S., reportedly reaching 145 million people, as of 2024. The Roku Channel includes over 500 free channels, more than 80,000 free movies and shows, and access to paid content. The service can be streamed using streaming players and

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s from Roku as well as other providers, through the Roku mobile app, or via

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s running on PCs, tablets or mobile phones.

History

2017–2019: Launch in North America

The Roku Channel was launched in September 2017 as a free, ad-supported streaming television service ("FAST"), available to viewers in the U.S. Roku's CEO Anthony Wood stated in the same month that the channel was a "way for content owners to publish their content on Roku without writing an app". By August 2018, the channel had expanded to Canada, and a website version of the service was launched, allowing it to be accessed via any web browser. In August 2018, The Roku Channel was also reported to have signed content licensing deals with

Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and rec ...

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered ...

Lionsgate Lions Gate, Lion Gate or similar terms may refer to: Gates *Lion Gate at Mycenae in Greece *Lion Gate, one of the entrances to the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa, now in Turkey *Lion Gate, one of the entrances to the gardens of Hampton Court Pala ...

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

and

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount ...

. Additionally, the service offered content from existing partners including American Classics,

FilmRise FilmRise is an American media company, headquartered in New York City, that operates a film and television studio and a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) network. As of November 2024, the FilmRise app has reported more than 31.5 milli ...

, Nosey,

OVGuide OVGuide is a website aggregator which allowed users to find online video content. The company was acquired by FOTV Media Networks Inc. for over $10M in 2016. Included sites Sites are submitted by users and selected based on editorial review. O ...

, Popcornflix, Vidmark and YuYu.

2020–2022: Expansion into the UK, Mexico

April 2020 saw the launch of The Roku Channel in the UK. In January 2021, Roku announced that it had acquired the original content library of the defunct mobile video service

Quibi Quibi ( ) was an American short-form streaming platform that generated content for viewing on mobile devices. It was founded in Los Angeles in August 2018 as NewTV by Jeffrey Katzenberg and was led by Meg Whitman as CEO. The service raised $ ...

for an undisclosed amount, reported to be around $100 million, for availability on The Roku Channel. The content was rebranded as Roku Originals. In August 2021, The Roku Channel was reported to add

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, AccuWeather Now,

True Crime, Haunt TV and

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for free streaming. By March 2022, The Roku Channel included news services such as

ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to: * ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation * ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company ABC News may a ...

Bloomberg Bloomberg may refer to: People * Daniel J. Bloomberg (1905–1984), audio engineer * Georgina Bloomberg (born 1983), professional equestrian * Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P.; politician a ...

, Cheddar,

NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Media Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations r ...

, Newsy, People TV,

Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency ...

USA Today ''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headq ...

, WeatherNation and

Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo network. It provides financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases, financial reports, and original content. It also offers online tools for personal fina ...

, all available for free streaming. In October 2022, The Roku Channel was launched in Mexico. According to ''

Deadline Hollywood ''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with en ...

'', October 2022 also saw Charlie Collier, previously the CEO of

Fox Entertainment Fox Entertainment is an American entertainment company owned by Fox Corporation known for television production and distribution. The company was formed in 2019 after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, with offices in ...

, join Roku as the President of Roku Media to manage ad platform business and content for The Roku Channel and more. Later, in December 2022, Roku announced that it would sign an agreement with the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the 70th (2022) and 71st (2023) editions of the

Miss Universe Miss Universe is an annual international major beauty pageant that is run by a Thailand and Mexican-based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stree ...

beauty pageant in the United States, making the first time the pageant would broadcast on streaming television, after several years on linear television. By the end of 2022, The Roku Channel was offering premium subscriptions for over 50 services including

Discovery+ Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discov ...

Paramount+ Paramount+ (formerly known as CBS All Access in the United States and 10 All Access in Australia) is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, stream ...

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, Showtime,

Starz Starz (stylized in all caps as STARZ; pronounced "stars") is an American pay television network owned by Starz Entertainment, and is the flagship property of Starz Inc. Launched in 1994 as a multiplex service of what is now Starz Encore, ...

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based a ...

AMC+ AMC+ is an American subscription video on demand streaming service owned by AMC Networks that was launched on June 11, 2020. The service is a premium bundle that includes the live feeds and program libraries of the company's television networks ...

, Shudder and

Acorn TV Acorn TV is a British-American over-the-top VOD streaming service offering television programming from Australia, Canada, other Commonwealth countries, Spain, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In other countries, it is available on a variety ...

. Moreover, The Roku Channel was reaching U.S. households with a total population of 100 million, in Roku's estimates. The Roku Channel was also reportedly the most popular FAST service in the U.S. in 2021 and 2022.

2023–present: Viewership growth

In February 2023, BGR reported that Roku announced the addition of nearly 2000 hours of on-demand content to The Roku Channel. This content included offerings from HBO,

HBO Max Max (known in other countries as, and soon to be reverted globally to HBO Max) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. It is a proprietary unit of Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming on behalf of Home Box Of ...

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...

HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...

Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both televi ...

TLC TLC may refer to: Arts and entertainment Television * ''TLC'' (TV series), a 2002 British situational comedy television series that aired on BBC2 * TLC (TV network), formerly the Learning Channel, an American cable TV network ** TLC (Asia), an A ...

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film studio and distribution arm of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group division of Warner Bros., both of which are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex ...

and

Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television Studios, operating under the name Warner Bros. Television (abbreviated as WBTV; formerly known as Warner Bros. Television Division), is an American television production and distribution studio and the flagship studio o ...

. Moreover, this content would be available to stream for free. In August 2023, it was reported that The Roku Channel was adding several NBCUniversal services as free, ad-supported options. These included

NBC News Now NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Media Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations r ...

, Dateline, Today All Day, NBC local stations, regional

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news channels, Universal Action,

Alfred Hitchcock Presents ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 ...

, Sky News International, The Rotten Tomatoes Channel and a Universal Crime channel. Further, The Roku Channel became available on Google TV and other

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OS devices, in addition to Roku-branded streaming devices and smart TVs,

Amazon Fire TV Amazon Fire TV (formerly stylized as amazon fireTV) is a line of digital media players and microconsoles developed by Amazon since November 2014. The devices are small network appliances that deliver digital audio and video content streamed v ...

Apple TV Apple TV is a digital media player and a microconsole developed and marketed by Apple. It is a small piece of networking hardware that sends received media data such as video and audio to a TV or external display. Its media services include ...

and Samsung smart TVs. Moreover, a report by ''Variety'' in September 2023 stated that The Roku Channel offered more than 80,000 TV shows and movies and access to premium content. Variety also reported that U.S. FAST services, including Roku,

Pluto TV Pluto TV is an American free ad-supported streaming television service owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. Founded by Tom Ryan (business executive), Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf in 2013 and based in ...

, Samsung SmartTV+ and Vizio WatchFree+, had "commercial loads" of about 8 to 9 minutes per hour, compared to 15 to 17 minutes per hour on

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. In January 2024, Roku announced an agreement with

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to air all but 5 races per year. Roku was slated to also air ''Recharge'', a studio program aired 24 hours after every race. According to

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in February 2024, The Roku Channel offered over 400 free live linear TV channels and distributed content from over 250 partners. In April 2024,

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(NBA) announced a partnership with Roku to launch "NBA Fast", the first FAST channel from NBA, on The Roku Channel. Roku also announced an agreement with NBA to air more than 40

NBA G League The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is a professional basketball league in North America that serves as the Minor league#Basketball, developmental league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The league comprises 31 teams; as of ...

games during the 2024–25 season. In May 2024, The Roku Channel secured a multiyear rights agreement with

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to stream live the league's '' Sunday Leadoff'' games for free. In June 2024, measurement firm

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found The Roku Channel to be the most popular among all free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) streaming services in the U.S. In the same month,

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stated that The Roku Channel could be watched using the Roku mobile app, available for both

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and Android, and allowed switching among free content, premium subscription services and live TV. In August 2024, Roku launched a new FAST channel, ''Roku Sports Channel'', to be made available on The Roku Channel. At launch, the sports channel would show live events from

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and the

and live studio programming from ''

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'' and ''GMFB: Overtime''. In February 2025, Roku announced it was launching a women's sports studio show, ''Women's Sports Now'', featuring Renee Montgomery, Sarah Tiana and

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. In May 2025, Roku announced that The Roku Sports Channel would now stream on

Samsung TV Plus Samsung TV Plus is a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service owned by Samsung Electronics that was introduced in 2015. The platform was designed to provide free, live streaming content for users with Samsung devices. As of 2022, the ...

as well. The Roku Channel was the most watched U.S. FAST service in November 2024, as per Nielsen's TV viewership data. It reached households with nearly 145 million people by the end of 2024, according to Roku. The channel gathered 2.4% of all U.S. TV use in April 2025 and ranked as the fifth-most-watched streaming service, trailing

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

(12.4%),

Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ...

(7.5%) and

Prime Video Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by ...

(3.5%). Roku reported that streaming hours on The Roku Channel increased by 84% year over year and that it was the second most-engaged service on the Roku platform among U.S. viewers.

Content

Free, ad-supported streaming TV

The Roku Channel includes more than 500 free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels, as of November 2024. They include: * News:

ABC News Live ABC News Live (a.k.a. ABCNL) is a U.S.-based streaming video news channel for breaking news, live events, newscasts, and longer-form reports and documentaries operated by ABC News (United States), ABC News since 2018. The channel is available ...

, AccuWeather Now, America’s Voice,

Black News Channel The Black News Channel (BNC) was an American pay television news channel, targeting the African American demographic. The channel was based in Tallahassee, Florida, and launched on February 10, 2020.Bloomberg Bloomberg may refer to: People * Daniel J. Bloomberg (1905–1984), audio engineer * Georgina Bloomberg (born 1983), professional equestrian * Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P.; politician a ...

CBC News CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC ...

, Cheddar, Dateline,

LiveNow from Fox LiveNow from Fox is a digital and broadcast television network operated by Fox Television Stations, a division of Fox Corporation. The channel carries live coverage of breaking news events throughout the day on several streaming and smart TV plat ...

, LX News, NewsmaxTV Live,

NowThis NowThis Media is an American progressive social media-focused media organization founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating short-form videos. Their target audience are Gen Z and Millennials. History NowThis was founded by ''Huff ...

One America News One America News Network (OANN), also known as One America News (OAN), is a far-right, pro-Trump news and political commentary television channel and website founded by Robert Herring Sr. and owned by Herring Networks, Inc., that launched ...

Encore,

Scripps News Scripps News is a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) streaming news channel, and a former American digital subchannel network headquartered in Atlanta, GA Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state ...

, Sky News International,

regional news channels,

The Young Turks ''The Young Turks'' (''TYT'') is an American progressive and left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program live streamed on social media platforms YouTube and Twitch, and additionally selected television channels. ''TYT'' se ...

-Go, Today All Day,

, WeatherNation and

. * Movies: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cinevault, Cinevault Classics, Cinevault Westerns, FilmRise Action, FilmRise Classic TV, FilmRise Family, FilmRise Free Movies,

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Movies, Haunt TV,

IFC Films Independent Film Company (formerly IFC Films) is an American film production and distribution company based in New York City, New York. It is an offshoot of IFC (U.S. TV channel), IFC, owned by AMC Networks. It mainly distributes independent fil ...

Picks, Movie Favorites by Lifetime, MovieSphere,

Redbox Redbox Automated Retail, LLC was an American video rental and streaming media company, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois west of Chicago. Redbox specialized in automated DVD rental kiosks, and operated transactional and ad-supported streamin ...

Free Movies,

Reelz Reelz (formerly known as Reelz Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The network's programming was formerly devoted to entertainment-oriented programming focusing on the Hollywood ...

, The Rotten Tomatoes Channel, Samuel Goldwyn Channel, Samuel Goldwyn Classics, Universal Action,

Universal Monsters The Universal Monsters (also known as Universal Classic Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise comprising various horror film series distributed by Universal Pictures. It consists of different horror creature characters o ...

, XUMO FREE Movies, XUMO FREE Westerns and Warner Bros. TV At the Movies. * Sports: ACC Digital Network, Adventure Sports Network,

BeIN Sports Xtra BeIN Sports USA is an American pay television sports channel that launched on August 16, 2012. It is part of the BeIN Sports family of channels, a subsidiary of the Qatari-based BeIN Media Group. BeIN Sports primarily airs soccer; featuring ...

, EDGESport,

ESPN8 The Ocho ESPN8 The Ocho is a special program block showcasing seldom-seen obscure sports that airs on the networks of ESPN Inc. The Ocho is also offered as a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel on the Roku Channel and DirecTV Stream. ...

, ESTV, FIFA Plus, FITE,

Fox Sports Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world. The name originates from Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States, which in turn derives its name from Fox Fi ...

, Fubo Sports Network, GolfPass, HBCU-Go Sports, MAVTV Select, MLB Channel, NBA Fast, NBC Sports NOW, NFL Channel, NHL Channel,

PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champion ...

, Outside TV, Pickleballtv, PowerNation, Racing America, SportsGrid,

Stadium A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...

and Tennis Channel's T2 * Entertainment: Baywatch Remastered, BET Pluto, Bounce XL,

BUZZR Buzzr (stylized as BUZZR) is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Fremantle North America, a unit of the Fremantle subsidiary of RTL Group. The network serves as an outlet for the extensive library of classic game shows ow ...

The Carol Burnett Show ''The Carol Burnett Show'' is an American variety/sketch comedy television show that originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in fall 1991. It starred Carol Burnett, Harv ...

, CMT Pluto, Circle Country, Comedy Central Pluto,

Complex Complex commonly refers to: * Complexity, the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe ** Complex system, a system composed of many components which may interact with each ...

Crunchyroll Channel Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian media, including Japanese anime, an ...

Deal or No Deal ''Deal or No Deal'' is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch '' Miljoenenjacht'' (''Hunt/Chase for Millions''). The centerpiece of this format is the final round (a ...

Family Feud ''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. Two families compete on each episode to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The show has had three separate runs, the ...

Game Show Central Game Show Network (GSN) is an American Cable television in the United States#Basic cable, basic cable channel owned by the Sony Pictures Television#Sony Pictures Television Networks, television network division of Sony Pictures Television. The c ...

, GOT Talent Global, Heartland, HerSphere,

Ion An ion () is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by convent ...

Ion Plus Ion Plus is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network originally launched in 2007 as Ion Life, maintaining a format featuring lifesty ...

Ion Mystery Ion Mystery (formerly Escape and Court TV Mystery, stylized as ESCAPE and MYSTERY; formerly branded on-air as Mystery) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. It focu ...

Little House on the Prairie The ''Little House on the Prairie'' books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adulthood in the Midwestern United States, Americ ...

The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a ...

Midsomer Murders ''Midsomer Murders'' is a British Mystery fiction, mystery television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' book series created by Caroline Graham (writer), Caroline Graham. ...

MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...

Pluto,

Murder, She Wrote ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...

, People TV, SNL Vault and

TMZ ''TMZ'' is an American entertainment-focused tabloid news organization owned by Fox Corporation. It made its debut on November 8, 2005, as a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested ...

. Also

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#M ...

's WMX Pop, WMX Rock and WMX Hip-Hop * Music: MTV Biggest Pop, MTV Block Party and Yo! MTV * Kids: Ameba, Barney and Friends, Battery Pop,

BBC Kids BBC Kids is the international children's brand of BBC Studios, and has been applied to a number of TV services. It draws from the long history of children's programming on the BBC, and is strongly related to the CBBC channel in the United King ...

Bob the Builder ''Bob the Builder'' is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment which ran from to in the United Kingdom through the CBBC strand and later CBeebies. The series centres on the adventures ...

Caillou ''Caillou'' ( ; , stylized in lowercase) is an animated educational children's television series that aired on Teletoon (both English and French versions) with the first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997 until the fou ...

, FilmRise Kids, Julius Jr., Kidoodle.TV,

Kidz Bop Kidz Bop is an American children's music group that produces family-friendly covers of pop songs and related media. Kidz Bop releases compilation albums that feature children covering songs that chart high on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and/or r ...

Rainbow Ruby ''Rainbow Ruby'' (; ) is a CGI animated television series aimed at children, produced by 38 °C Animation Studio and CJ E&M Corporation in South Korea and China Entertainment Corporation (a subsidiary of China ACG Group, which is an enterpr ...

Teletubbies ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...

, Kartoon, Kid Gamer TV, KIDZ BOP TV,

Moonbug Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. is a British children's media company and multi-channel network headquartered in London, with an office in Los Angeles. Founded in 2018 and owned by Candle Media, Moonbug creates and distributes children’s video a ...

, PBS Retro,

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, Popples, ''

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'',

, Rev and Roll, Ryan and Friends, '' Sabrina: The Animated Series'', ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battle ...

'', Toon Goggles, Toon Goggles Jr.,

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...

and

Zoomoo ZooMoo is an international multilanguage pay television channel owned by Rock Entertainment Holdings that was first launched in Brazil in September 2013 in high definition (HD). The ZooMoo brand name is also used for international programming b ...

* Home Design and Lifestyle: A+E Lively Place,

Architectural Digest ''Architectural Digest'' (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920. Its principal subjects are interior design and landscaping, rather than pure external architecture. The magazine is published by Condé Nast ...

Bon Appétit ''Bon Appétit'' is a monthly American food and entertaining magazine, that typically contains recipes, entertaining ideas, restaurant recommendations, and wine reviews. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered at the One World Trade Center ...

, The Bob Ross Channel,

Condé Nast Traveler ''Condé Nast Traveler'' is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast. The magazine has won 25 National Magazine Awards. The Condé Nast unit of Advance Publications purchased ''Signature'', a magazine for Diners Club me ...

, The Design Network, DIY Daily, Glamour, GQ, Food52, PBS Food, Revry, Tiny House Nation, Warner Bros. TV Welcome Home, Vanity Fair,

Tastemade Tastemade, Inc. is a media company that offers food, travel, and home & design-related programming for online and streaming audiences.Spangler, TodYouTube Network Tastemade Raises $25 Million Led by Scripps, Liberty Media''Variety''. September 1 ...

This Old House ''This Old House'' is an American home improvement media brand with television shows, a magazine, and a website. The brand is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The television series airs on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television ...

and

Vogue Vogue may refer to: Business * ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine ** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine ** '' Vogue Adria'', a fashion magazine for former Yugoslav countries ** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine ** ' ...

* Comedy: AFV Family, ''

Anger Management Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control. It has been described as deploying anger successfully.Schwarts, Gil. July 2006. Anger Management', July 2006 The Office Politic. Men's Health magazine. Emmaus, PA: ...

'', '' Are We There Yet?'', College Humor, Comedy Central Pluto TV, Comedy Dynamics,

Funny or Die Funny or Die, Inc. is a comedy video website and production company owned by Henry R. Muñoz III that was founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Mark Kvamme, and Chris Henchy in 2007. The website contained exclusive material from a regular staf ...

, TNBC and

Just for Laughs Gags ''Just for Laughs Gags'' ( French: ''Les Gags'') is a Canadian silent comedy/hidden camera reality television series that is under the Just for Laughs brand created by Pierre Girard and Jacques Chevalier. The series uses a hidden camera forma ...

* Crime:

Cold Case Files ''Cold Case Files'' is a reality legal show/documentary on the cable channel A&E Network and a rebooted series. It is hosted by Bill Kurtis and the original series produced by Tom Golden. The show documents the investigation of many long ...

, Crime360, Crime and Unsolved Mysteries, FilmRise True Crime,

Forensic Files ''Forensic Files'', originally known as ''Medical Detectives'', is an American documentary television program that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and outbreaks of illness. The show was origin ...

, On Patrol: Live, Oxygen True Crime Archives, Reel Truth,

Famous and Infamous, Universal Crime channel by NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. TV Crime Scenes. * Reality: All Reality by We TV, Deal Zone, FailArmy,

Fear Factor ''Fear Factor'' is an American stunt/ dare game show that first aired on NBC from 2001 to 2006 and was initially hosted by comedian and UFC commentator Joe Rogan. The show was adapted by Endemol USA from the original Dutch series titled '' ...

, UFO Cowboys, Ghost Hunters, Hell’s Kitchen,

Kitchen Nightmares ''Kitchen Nightmares'', known in the UK as ''Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA'', is an American reality television series originally broadcast on Fox, in which chef Gordon Ramsay is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant ...

Ice Road Truckers ''Ice Road Truckers'' (commercially abbreviated ''IRT'') is a reality television series that aired on History Channel from 2007 to 2017. It featured the activities of drivers who operated trucks on ice roads crossing frozen lakes and rivers, i ...

, People Are Awesome, Pet Collective, Real Housewives Vault and Wipeout * Sci-Fi:

The Asylum The Asylum is an American independent film production and distribution company based in Burbank, California, known for producing low-budget, direct-to-video films, in particular mockbusters, which capitalize on the popularity of major studio f ...

, Classic

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

, DUST, FilmRise Sci-Fi, MGM’s Free Sci-Fi Movies & Series, UnExplained Zone and Warner Bros. TV Mysterious Worlds * Science & Nature: BBC Earth,

WIRED Wired may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''Wired'' (Jeff Beck album), 1976 * ''Wired'' (Hugh Cornwell album), 1993 * ''Wired'' (Mallory Knox album), 2017 * "Wired", a song by Prism from their album '' Beat Street'' * "Wired ...

Love Nature Love Nature is a Canadian specialty television channel owned by Blue Ant Media. Originally launched on March 12, 2006, the channel broadcasts documentaries and television series related to wildlife and nature. Outside of Canada, international v ...

Modern Marvels ''Modern Marvels'', formally known under A&E as ''Time Machine'', is a television series first aired by the History Channel in 1995, but previously under A&E starting December 10, 1993. It is the History Channel's first and longest-running prog ...

, Voyager Documentaries and Warner Bros. TV How-To * Talk Shows:

Hot Ones ''Hot Ones'' is an American YouTube talk show, created by Sean Evans and Chris Schonberger, hosted by Evans and produced by First We Feast and formerly Complex Media. Its basic premise involves celebrities being interviewed by Evans over a pl ...

, Nosey and Real Nosey * Spanish language: AFV en Español,

América TeVé WJAN-CD (channel 41) is a Low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power, class A television service, class A Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-language independent station in Miami, Florida, United States. Owned by América CV Stat ...

beIN SPORTS beIN Sports ( ) is a Qatari multinational network of sports channels owned and operated by the media group beIN. The network has played a major role in the increased commercialization of Qatari sports. Its chairman is Nasser Al-Khelaifi, and its ...

, Canela.TV,

Estrella TV Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the networ ...

, Latido Music, Love Nature en Español, Moovimex, Pongalo NovelaClub,

TelevisaUnivision TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in Miami and Mexico City that owns American Spanish language broadcast network Univision and free-to-air channels in Mexico such as ...

, The Weather Channel en Español., among others.

Advertising video on demand

The Roku Channel offers viewers to watch a selection of advertising video on demand (AVOD) content for free, requiring no subscription fee. This content includes movies from

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood ...

studios such as

(MGM), Sony Pictures and

Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...

, and videos from publishers such as American Classics,

Fandor Fandor is a division of the American entertainment company Cineverse. It is a streaming service dedicated to independent films, documentaries, international titles and classics. History Fandor was founded in 2010 in San Francisco, California by ...

, FilmRise, Nosey, OVGuide, Popcornflix, Vidmark and YuYu. The channel also delivers about 2000 hours of content from Warner Bros. Discovery’s TV series and movies, including content from HBO, HBO Max, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television and more. Moreover, it offers for free a part of the "premium content" from Showtime, MGM+,

Cinedigm Cineverse Corp. (originally Access IT Digital Media, Inc., and later, Cinedigm) is an American entertainment company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Cineverse’s businesses encompass digital cinema, streaming channels, content marketi ...

and Acorn TV, with no subscription or trial required. The offering includes '' On Becoming a God in Central Florida'' (Showtime), ''

Godfather of Harlem ''Godfather of Harlem'' is an American crime drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2019, on Epix. The series is created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and stars Forest Whitaker as 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johns ...

'' (Epix), '' America: The Story of Us'' (HISTORY Vault), '' Heartland'' (Dove Channel) and '' Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries'' (Acorn TV). The Spanish AVOD titles free to watch on The Roku Channel include Hernan (

A+E Networks A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient ...

), Hunting Ava Bravo (Wild Sheep Content, Top Dead Center Films, Chollawood Productions), A la Mala (

), Enamorada ( Cisneros), Amor Comprado ( Cisneros), Seasons 1-3 of

El Señor de los Cielos ''El Señor de los Cielos'' (in English: ''Lord of the Skies'') is an American crime drama television series created by Luis Zelkowicz, based on an original idea by Mariano Calasso, and Andrés López. It premiered on Telemundo on 15 April 2013. ...

( NBCUniversal Telemundo), El Chema: Edición Especial (NBCUniversal Telemundo), Seasons 1-2 of

Señora Acero ''Señora Acero'', also known as ''Señora Acero: La Coyote'' as of season three, is an American telenovela created by Roberto Stopello and produced by Argos Comunicación and Telemundo Studios, and distributed by Telemundo Internacional. The ser ...

(NBCUniversal Telemundo). The Roku Channel also includes original content, including that in Spanish, in form of Roku Originals. Content creation partners for the Roku Originals include Cisley Saldaña, Liz Jenkins, Mariel Saldaña, Paul Hollywood,

Prue Leith Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, (born 18 February 1940) is a South African-British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist. She was a judge on BBC Two's ''Great British Menu'' for eleven years, before joining ''The Great British ...

Rich Eisen Richard Eisen ( ; born June 24, 1969) is an American television sportscaster and radio host. Since 2003, he has worked for NFL Network as a host of various pregame, halftime, and postgame shows and doing occasional play-by-play. He also hosts ...

and

"Weird Al" Yankovic Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic ( ; born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing Comedy music, comedy songs that often Parody music, parody specific songs by contempo ...

. Spanish-language content creation partners include

Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and businesswoman. Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of her time, credited with breaking ...

, Juanpa Zurita and

Jaime Camil Jaime Federico Said Camil de Saldanha da Gama (born 22 July 1973) is a Mexican actor, singer and television personality. He is best known for his roles as Fernando Mendiola in '' La Fea Más Bella'' and Rogelio de la Vega in '' Jane the Virgin' ...

Paid subscriptions

The Roku Channel offers paid subscriptions for various services including

Max Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

, Showtime,

Cinemax Cinemax is an American pay television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on August 1, 1980, as a "maxi-pay" service to complement the offerings of its sister premium network, HBO (Home Box ...

, Shudder,

, Fuse Plus and Vix Premium.

Live sports programming

Sports programming primarily airs on the Roku Sports Channel. *

(2024–present) **11 races *

(2024–present) **40 games *

(2024–present) **18

games *WCK Muay Thai (2024) **WCK Muay Thai 35th Anniversary event *

X Games The X Games are a series of action sports events founded by ESPN Inc. and aired on ESPN networks and ABC. In late 2022, ESPN sold the long-running property to MSP Sports Capital, a private equity firm co-founded by Jahm Najafi and Jeff Mo ...

(2025–present) **Exclusive streaming home of X Games Aspen and a major summer X Games event *

Pro Volleyball Federation The Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) is a women's professional indoor volleyball league in the United States. The league was announced on November 17, 2022, and began play in 2024. History Development The Pro Volleyball Federation was ann ...

(2025–present) **20 matches * Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (2025–present) **Coverage of Bassmaster Elite Qualifiers **Select coverage of all Bassmaster Elite Series events **5 Bassmaster Open Series events **Friday coverage of the Bassmaster Classic **Primetime coverage of the Bassmaster Classic Celebrity Pro-Am

References

External links

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