Legal streaming of news / current affairs

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automaton

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#196595 6-Jun-2016 09:51

Hello all.

My parents have ditched Sky. They are happy with Apple TV/Netflix as an alternative in general, but are missing a CNN type news service. RT and Al Jazeera are available on freeview, but they find these too politically slanted.

Is there a legal alternative? Something they can stream through Apple TV? ABC is available on Apple TV but my parents find it really focuses on lod=cal US news. They are looking for something like BBC, or CNN international.

Any thoughts?

DaveB

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#1566302 6-Jun-2016 10:24

You may wish to visit this site here. Although the article focuses on Apple TV, I find the streaming links work with my Sammy TV app - SmartIPTV, so you are not tied to Apple TV.

The links I have used from that site provides a continual stream of Sky News UK, BBC International News, BBC 24 (local news focus), ABC News (Australia), CNN Europe feed, Euronews and ABC News (US). So a good mixture and excellent sources for major world stories.

Hope this helps.

automaton

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#1566347 6-Jun-2016 11:14

Thanks, but was looking for something that can be done without a vpn service. Cheers.

davidcole

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#1566415 6-Jun-2016 12:23

Probably only al jeezera and if a new Apple TV 4, 3 news since they have an app. Tvnz isn't anywhere useful - well is on some tvs that's about it.

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JarrodM

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#1566801 6-Jun-2016 22:22

Reuters TV app?

farcus

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#1566806 6-Jun-2016 23:01

Aljazeera and Sky News (UK) have live HD streams on youtube.

No idea if apple TV has a youtube app or not but it would be a pretty stink device if it didn't.

PhantomNVD

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#1566811 7-Jun-2016 00:03

My ATV3 has utube, so ATV4 would also...

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davidcole

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#1566827 7-Jun-2016 06:23

farcus:
Aljazeera and Sky News (UK) have live HD streams on youtube.

No idea if apple TV has a youtube app or not but it would be a pretty stink device if it didn't.

A YouTube app that allows live streams, Apple TV has YouTube. Not tried using it for live. For a long time the Apple tvs were not updated (during the whole apple/Google pretty problem phase - the old google maps on iPhone where it was so far behind it wasn't funny).

But it should be able to do that now.

Rikkitic

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#1566840 7-Jun-2016 08:39

Here is an alternative plan: If your parents had Sky then they have a Sky dish. Most likely they can receive Intelsat 19 on it. You just need to experiment with placing the LNB. All they need then is a cheap satellite STB and they can receive Euronews, France TV and even the South Korean news channel, all in English.

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