Channels & viewing

[MrsNut]

You're going about it all wrong! From another user @AvsGunnar , there's this absolutely beautiful fix!  It puts a tile on your screen for your antenna channels.  In following these very easy steps, I didn't have to rename anything or do any work, the actual tile was there and you just had to check the box to get it to appear on  your home screen. Here ya go! Follow the directions and no more hiding anything

Instead of looking for Settings/TV Inputs/Antenna TV, try looking for Settings/TV Inputs/Live TV.  Then "Enable" this Input. (it may be listed under Unused Inputs")

Then go to Settings/TV Inputs/Rename and change it to Antenna (or whatever you want to call it).

When you want to watch your OTA/Antenna/Local Channels, make sure you select this new Antenna Input tile from the Home Screen.

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By default in Roku OS 11, Antenna TV Input was renamed LiveTV,, but Roku also added a Menu Item on the left side of Home Screen also called LiveTV.   The Live TV Menu Item only shows Streaming Channels from the Roku Channel LiveTV.  In order to watch your OTA/Antenna channels, you must select the LiveTV Input tile from the Home Screen. (this is the one mentioned above that is can be renamed Antenna or whatever you wish).

If you want the Antenna Input to only contain local channels, you can hide the Streaming Channels by going to Settings/TV Inputs/[Antenna aka LiveTV]/Manage Channels/Hide Streaming Channels.

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Many users are selecting the LiveTV from the left side Menu and wondering why their OTA channels are missing.  They are not missing.  Roku made a confusing decision to name two features the same LiveTV by default but perform different functions.

Others users are experiencing issues with some RokuTVs that seem to lose the OTA channels from memory, so not sure which issue you are actually experiencing.

[MrsNut]

Instead of looking for Settings/TV Inputs/Antenna TV, try looking for Settings/TV Inputs/Live TV.  Then "Enable" this Input. (it may be listed under Unused Inputs")

Then go to Settings/TV Inputs/Rename and change it to Antenna (or whatever you want to call it).

When you want to watch your OTA/Antenna/Local Channels, make sure you select this new Antenna Input tile from the Home Screen.

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By default in Roku OS 11, Antenna TV Input was renamed LiveTV,, but Roku also added a Menu Item on the left side of Home Screen also called LiveTV.   The Live TV Menu Item only shows Streaming Channels from the Roku Channel LiveTV.  In order to watch your OTA/Antenna channels, you must select the LiveTV Input tile from the Home Screen. (this is the one mentioned above that is can be renamed Antenna or whatever you wish).

If you want the Antenna Input to only contain local channels, you can hide the Streaming Channels by going to Settings/TV Inputs/[Antenna aka LiveTV]/Manage Channels/Hide Streaming Channels.

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Many users are selecting the LiveTV from the left side Menu and wondering why their OTA channels are missing.  They are not missing.  Roku made a confusing decision to name two features the same LiveTV by default but perform different functions.

Others users are experiencing issues with some RokuTVs that seem to lose the OTA channels from memory, so not sure which issue you are actually experiencing.

[Tony1954]

Others have mentioned the solution - and that you have to pick between streaming channels and Live Antenna channels. 

THIS IS A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE as well as an inconvenience. The antenna channels get buried in the 100's of Roku channels.  Making it impossible to quickly get to local news broadcasts of emergencies. Like the tornado warning yesterday here where I live. 

So I've purchased a digital converter box with an ATSC TV turner. They are cheap now on Amazon. You hook your antenna to the tuner and connect the turner to an HDMI or RCA connector on the TV.  Now when I want just broadcast TV I just select the input on the screen and there we be. 

But this is nonsense and Roku just wants eyes on all the internet channels they push. The TV's all have a separate physical antenna input and there absolutely NO REASON the antenna input could not have a corresponding input selection link on the home screen of the TV. 

[MrsNut]

If you go back in the tread and read the fix which is very simple you DO NOT have to choose between them and you did not have to purchase what you did. In settings there's a box on my tv that I ticked and poof I got a tile on my screen that says antenna tv. So my home screen in addition to live tv tile has antenna tv tile.  If there's a fix why would you buy something? If by chance you did not see the directions posted to use as a work around to put the antenna tv tile on your screen let me know

[tcp]

The antenna can be set up as described previously and integrates the OTA channels with the streaming channels of ROKU.  The channels show up at the beginning of the list of OTA&Streaming channels. 

The only issue I can see with that is:  If you are high up in the streaming channels, it takes quite a while to scroll back to the OTA channels using the basic Roku remote, which doesn't have numbers on it, just arrows. 

If this is worrisome, you can remove the streaming channels from the list as described in the above posts and JUST have the OTA channels.

[Tony1954]

So the two replies above led me down a path to work around. Thanks! 

I find no way to add a new input. New apps sure, but no new input. You can RENAME an input, and this is the important part that leads to a fix. . In fact you do not have to choose between only antenna TV broadcasts and only the hundreds of streaming Roku channels. But at least on my TV you can't have them together. The antenna broadcast channels on my TV cannot be found in the LIVE TV APP, no matter what I do.   If they are there  they are so buried as to be useless. 

For my Roku TV (TCL) I had both an APP named LIVE TV and an INPUT named LIVE TV. Appearance wise they are the same - except the APP has a blue background and the INPUT has no background color. The INPUT Live TV was also clustered in with the other INPUTS in use (HDMI 1 & 2. etc)

Nothing I did to the blue background APP for Live TV ever  helped with the Antenna broadcast channels. But the INPUT Live Channels was the fix. Under settings/live tv/manage - I checked  the box for "broadcast channels only", Then said renamed it (you get multiple choices, I selected Antenna TV) Then I went back and had it scan for channels. Not just rescan - but the start over choice that forgets everything already stored. 

So now I have the APP named Live TV that has all of Roku's channels. And an INPUT named Antenna TV that has only the broadcast channels. 

You know - they way Roku should have it set it up by default.  In fact I am fairly certain it was the way my TV menu was set up when I first brought it home.  Likely Roku gets $$ (share of advertising revenue I would guess) for the streaming channels and doesn't get a penny of the advertising dollars on antenna, broadcast channels. So they "prioritize" the streaming . 

I will not purchase another TV set up like this again. The OS platform for streaming built into the set just opens up too many issues. Better to have the TV only connecting to the 'net  when a specific HDMI port is in use. 

[MrsNut]

I had the issue for a bit that I had to hide my streaming to "find" my OTA channels and vice versa. However, someone posted a workaround,  I did exactly what it said, now on my TV home screen in addition to the other tiles, I have a specific tile that says ANTENNA. It actually sits next to the ROKU tv tile. When I use the ANTENNA tile, my streaming channels are still attached to it, my favorites are still there, it just maintains my OTA channels where ROKU dropped something after an update last year. That update left people with OTA channels questioning what happened. I'm grateful to the person who posted the workaround and without changing or buying anything my ANTENNA tv channels are at the tip of my fingers.

[tcanthonyii]

I made the changes in the last few posts and got my channels back. The weird thing is that I’ve selected both live tv tiles and neither would display my channels. Hopefully this sticks around now. 

[RokuCarly]

Hi, @tcanthonyii.

Thanks for keeping us posted.

For future assistance, feel free to reach out anytime you need help or create a new post for different concerns. We'd be more than happy to continue helping you.

You may also visit our support website for additional troubleshooting resources. 

We hope you continue to have a Happy Streaming! 💜

Warm regards,
Carly

[StevenVZ]

This is a load of bull**bleep**. Why would you change it on your customers who wants antenna tv? Quit treating your customers like **bleep** and changing stuff on them without their permission. Another thing you like to do is change the theme. Nobody asked you to change their theme I guarantee it so quit doing it. It should be this **bleep** difficult to watch TV. Quit being assholes!!!