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Watching tv stations on the internet.

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radiotower40

Are there any local tv stations that stream their over the air signal 24 hours a day?

I am most interested in being able to watch channels that carry me tv, antenna tv, retro tv or other networks like that.

I know that a lot of local stations streem news programming live, I'm looking for a local station that broadcasts the whole day online.

Even if it is something like America One or even Live Well, which is not to my liking it would be better than nothing.

I have looked into Hulu and I'm still not exactly sure how it works yet. I would prefer a free option, I will pay if that is the only option.

The reason I want this is because I am traveling to a rather remote area, a small town where I can only pick up 2 DTV stations, one is a Spanish speaking station the second is religion and paid shows.

Funny thing is the area gets good cell coverage on my carrier. I would just like to have something to watch that would be of some interest to me. You Tube is pretty boring for me.

Any help would be appreciated, this would also be nice to have on a camping trip since the old style tv's are no longer usable.
 
When stations buy programming, they generally only buy the rights to air it in their own market. The station I work for has paid for the right to carry the Dr. Oz show in the Nashville market. Some other station has paid for the right to carry it in, say, Wichita.

For that reason, most stations are not able to stream most of their programming online. As you noted, local news is the exception. Because that programming is produced by the local station (not bought from someone else) the station has the right to broadcast that programming anywhere they want.

Many network programs can be viewed online on the networks' websites. I kept forgetting to DVR "The Amazing Race" -- but if I did forget, I could always play it back off CBS.com.

(this year, I'm remembering to DVR it -- so I don't know whether CBS has learned how to insert commercials in their online stream. They were trying last year but they weren't being very successful...)
 
I don't know of any local stations that stream live 24/7. There are a couple cable networks that stream live, like Bloomberg and QVC. But it isn't near as profitable as getting paid by cable companies so few do it.
 
There's USTV Now which is primarily for military people overseas. Sign up with a free account and get the locals from Harrisburg/Lancaster/York Pennsylvania. There's also tvpc.com that has some Miami and Tampa locals but they're not always clear and sometimes there are a ton of annoying pop up ads that are hard to get off the screen. Somewhere I else I found a good feed of WCBS 2 and WNBC 4 from New York. I wish they had WABC 7 as well. I just wish I could get some from Pacific Time since I live in Central Time and might want to watch some shows later than they air here and instead of recording it I'd like to watch it when it's airing.
 
Thanks for all the input it's greatly appreciated. I am going to go through each of these and see what they offer. I found a couple of good applications that work on Android and Apple.

The TV.com application is from CBS, there are things from Perry Mason and Family Ties to The Price Is Right to new shows like Blue Bloods. I watched an episode of Family Ties which had a short ad at the begining and 2 or 3 one commercial breaks during the show. It is quite good for me.

Another site is called Classic B Movies. It is mostly older movies and public domain stuff, I did watch a movie I had never knew of before, it was kind of good.

If you go to your app store at whatever format you use you can find them. The two I spoke of seem to work on most platforms mac, android and kindle.
 
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