Your Roku just got 9 more channels to watch for free - including a big one for Pokemon

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Roku conscionable added much channels to its escaped unrecorded TV lineup.
• There are caller channels for sitcoms, sports, clips, and more.
• You tin ticker adjacent if you don't person a Roku TV.

Roku has softly upgraded its escaped streaming options, and you present person adjacent much contented to ticker for free.

If you're not familiar, Roku has a "Live TV" conception of the Roku Channel app. It functions a batch similar old-school cablegram TV: determination are advertisement breaks, nary fast-forwarding oregon rewinding, and you ticker what's connected alternatively of searching for thing connected demand. But dissimilar cable, the channels are each wholly free. 

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With hundreds of options to take from, you'll find channels dedicated to a azygous amusement (like COPS, Gunsmoke, and Little House connected the Prairie), Hallmark movies, section news, weather, sports, and more. 

It was little than a period agone that Roku added six escaped channels to its lineup, including 24/7 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Overtime, which offers nonstop sports programming, and present it's adding 9 more. 

Here's what's caller to your Roku:

• Pokémon: Non-stop streaming of the fashionable animated bid that ran for much than 20 seasons. 
• The Bernie Mac Show: Episodes of the aboriginal 2000s sitcom starring the legendary comedian.
• America's Funniest Home Videos: Nonstop comic clips from respective eras of the classical TV show. 
• Willow Sports: Live sum of planetary cricket matches.
• Fuel TV: Sports, culture, and lifestyles of surf, skate, snow, BMX, and motocross.
• Felicity: The '90s play pursuing the NYC assemblage beingness of a young girl.
• Cougar Town: A divorced parent restarts her dating life. 
• Blossom: The classical '90s sitcom astir a highly intelligent, spunky teenager.
• MeatEater: Dedicated to hunting, fishing, and outdoor adventures.

To entree the caller channels, spell to the Roku Channel app (which you tin download connected any smart device, not conscionable Roku), prime "Live TV" from the near menu, past hunt for the transmission name. You tin besides entree your favourite channels from the precocious watched conception aft you've viewed them once.  

If you're not picky astir which occurrence of thing you watch, this is 1 of the champion streaming options retired there, and you could easy chopped a paid streaming work oregon 2 for Roku.