Roku lets anyone watch local news for free: How to find your NBC, ABC, and CBS stations

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Roku lets you easy ticker section quality broadcasts for free.
• The diagnostic tracks your determination and shows your section affiliates.
• You tin besides ticker nationalist quality broadcasts.

If you wage for a streaming work similar YouTube TV oregon Hulu with Live TV mostly for news, there's a Roku diagnostic you'll privation to wage attraction to.

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

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

Most quality stations person their ain app these days, but an enactment similar this makes it easier to power betwixt stations oregon to power implicit to section quality if you're watching thing else.  

How to ticker your section quality for free

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

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

Below that category, you'll spot options for nationalist and planetary quality streams similar CNN, CBS, and NBC News, and respective channels dedicated to weather. If you privation to cheque the quality for different city, there's besides a class for section quality streams from crossed the country.