How To Watch Local News On Roku For Free - No Subscription Or Tv Antenna Required

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Roku lets you easy watch section news broadcasts for free.
• The characteristic tracks your location and shows your section affiliates.
• You tin besides watch nationalist news broadcasts.

If you salary for a streaming work for illustration YouTube TV aliases Hulu pinch Live TV mostly for news, there's a Roku characteristic you'll want to salary attraction to.

Roku has a reasonably robust -- and free -- unrecorded TV lineup that galore group aren't alert of. With hundreds of channels covering astir immoderate topic, it's a awesome prime if you're looking to prevention immoderate money connected streaming -- and the lineup is increasing constantly.

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Among those channels is an easy measurement to watch your section news stations for free. The characteristic uses geolocation to aggregate section news feeds from your Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates (ones that are disposable online, astatine least), meaning your section stations are ever astatine nan apical of nan list. The characteristic isn't new, but a caller redesign makes your section channels a batch easier to find.

Most news stations person their ain app these days, but an action for illustration this makes it easier to move betwixt stations aliases to move complete to section news if you're watching thing else.  

How to watch your section news for free

To find free section news streams connected your Roku, unfastened The Roku App. This app comes preinstalled connected astir Roku devices, but you tin instal it connected immoderate smart TV. Choose "Live TV" from nan paper connected nan left. On that screen, you'll spot headings for categories for illustration Featured and Trending Now. If you scroll down respective categories, you'll yet spot "Local News Near You." 

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Two of my section awesome news stations were shown, and I was capable to easy propulsion up some streams. 

Below that category, you'll spot options for nationalist and world news streams for illustration CNN, CBS, and NBC News, and respective channels dedicated to weather. If you want to cheque nan news for different city, there's besides a class for section news streams from crossed nan country.