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RokuCarly
Community Moderator
3 years ago

Over The Air Channels (network tv) Disappeared

Hi gelonlewis1,

Thank you for posting here at the Roku Community!

We'd be happy to assist you regarding your concern about missing channels on your Roku TV/devices.

Just to clarify, do you have an antenna connected to your TV? If not, here's how you can access "over-the-air" broadcast television:

  1. Connect the coaxial cable from your HDTV antenna to the “Ant/Cable In” connector on the back of your Roku TV
  2. Turn on your Roku TV, go to Home, and select Live TV. If Live TV is missing, you can add it by going to Settings > TV inputs > Live TV > Set up input.
  3. Follow the instructions on the TV screen to complete the setup.

Let us know how it goes, and we'd be more than willing to assist you further with this.

All the best,
Carly

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  • TimothyJT1656's avatar
    TimothyJT1656
    Reel Rookie
    3 years ago

    I'm having the same issues too. I'm trying a factory reset and if that doesn't work I'm junking my tv.

  • LewMathews's avatar
    LewMathews
    Newbie
    3 years ago

    the input no longer has the "antennae" selection displayed as an option.

    Both of our ROKU tv's changed today and all we get are internet channels.

    How do we get it back to show the OTA that was there yesterday?

    Was there an automatic update that changed it?

    • LewMathews's avatar
      LewMathews
      Newbie
      3 years ago

      Streaming works, but no OTA

      followed the instructions, when getting to select antenna input, it is not there,

      • Williamt100's avatar
        Williamt100
        Roku Guru
        3 years ago

        After the recent 'update' to the Live TV app (panel, channel, whatever...), I also lost all of my over-the-air channels on my Roku TV.

        Here is what I did to get them back YMMV:

        Go to Settings->TV Inputs->Live TV->Manage Channels-> check the "Hide Streaming Channels" box

        You might have to rescan the antenna input on your ROKU TV (I had to) to ensure that they are all in your line up.

        I haven't found a way to have both the Antenna Channels and Streaming Channels cooperate. since the Live TV app was updated.

    • JC55's avatar
      JC55
      Binge Watcher
      3 years ago

      Same happened on my Hisense. My other TVs are still showing list of both Antenna and Streaming channels but I am sure when I turn off and on again it will be the same.

      I lost all of my antenna channels on my hisense 55R6 tv leaving all streaming channels. I did trouble shoot and checked the "hide streaming" channels, then antenna channels came back. I like having both Antenna and streaming channels visible on my channels list but this works. I know I can view the other channels by going to the Roku app.

  • Sadie1's avatar
    Sadie1
    Reel Rookie
    3 years ago

    I have scanned my antenna and got 51 channels but my roku tv will only show 5 of them.

    what could be causing this?