As explained by 9to5Google, Google prepares to expand the options of its operating system and add the option to watch live TV channels. Amazon has already allowed us this with its Amazon Fire TV Stick for more than a year with the possibility of watching DTT channels in Spain without having to install the different applications. Now Google would go a step further and add 50 live television channels without the need to subscribe, without the need to register or download anything additional on televisions or on the Chromecast.
Currently we can see hundreds of free channels on Google TV if we install applications without cost that broadcast live content continuously. This is the case of applications like Pluto TV, for example, or applications like Tivify that allow us to watch Internet television. But the idea of those from Mountain View is to go much further and offer us the channels directly in the interface of the operating system no need to install anything. They would already be integrated into Google TV.
Channels on Google TV
A few days ago the news was known and the preparation of these channels, which are not yet available. You are not going to watch Spanish channels live from Google TV like Antena 3 or Telecinco but it is an offer of international channels, for the most part, and with all kinds of content. Documentaries, international news channels and current affairs, humor channels such as FailArmy or children’s channels with cartoons and series for the little ones in the house.
Although it has been confirmed that 50 will arrive in total, we already know what some of them are and 34 of the 50 that will be available are known:
- ABCNewsLive
- America’s Test Kitchen
- American Classics
- The Asylum
- Battery Pop
- CBCNews
- Chive TV
- deal or no deal
- divorce court
- Dry Bar Comedy
- FailArmy
- Filmrise Free Movies
- Hallmark Movies & More
- It’s Showtime at the Apollo!
- Kevin Hart’s LOL! network
- Love Nature
- Maverick Black Cinema
- MooviMex
- NatureVision
- NBCNews Now
- Newsmax TV
- nosy
- The Pet Collective
- power nation
- Reelz
- teletubbies
- Today All Day
- Toon Goggles
- USAToday
- WorldPokerTour
- Wu-Tang Collection TV
- Xumo CrimeTV
- XumoMovies
- Xumo Westerns
When will they arrive
We still don’t know when they will arrive. new channels or what the interface will be like that they will have on Google TV to see this content, how can we see it from Spain or if there will also be exclusive national channels for our country but it becomes an excellent option to watch television through the Internet and continue adding options on Smart TV.
The list is likely to grow slowly and become an alternative to other televisions that already offer hundreds of free channels in their interface, like Samsung with Samsung TV Plus.