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StevenCee
Roku Guru
4 years ago
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Is there a live TV program guide on the web or phone app?

Is the only Live TV (not antenna) guide that found on my TV? Is there no way to know what's on, when, or info about various shows or movies, when using the Roku Channel on my web browser, or phone? It all seems a bit helter skelter to me, with hundreds of channels, you could spend a lot of time sifting through everything, and still not know anything about what shows are on, in the present, when they end, or any shows that come on after them. Please tell there is, but I just haven't found it yet...

  • DBDukes's avatar
    DBDukes
    4 years ago

    StevenCee 

    You haven't overlooked anything.

    Much of the content of Roku Channel is available on the apps and Website, but the Live TV Channel Guide isn't one of them.

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  • nightsmusic's avatar
    nightsmusic
    Streaming Star
    4 years ago

    Thank you for asking this. I too was wondering if there was an actual guide that I could scroll through on my laptop rather than scrolling through on the TV itself. Call me 'old school' but it's a bit easier for me that way. I do that with Philo and YouTubeTV as well and it works much better For Me than the onscreen guides do. Maybe a suggestion to Roku might get one in the future, but I'm glad you asked about it.

  • Steve27909's avatar
    Steve27909
    Newbie
    3 years ago

    I too would like to know how to navigate and watch the Roku channel via my laptop.  I can't find menus, live program guides, or other familiar elements and it's quite frustrating. The Roku software engineers are brilliant and I hope they will address this issue in the future.  And before someone attacks me, I have 4 Roku setups including 2 Roku TV's and I love the service.  There are just times that I'd like to be able to "efficiently" use my laptop to access the channel.

  • DBDukes's avatar
    DBDukes
    Community Streaming Expert
    4 years ago

    StevenCee 

    You haven't overlooked anything.

    Much of the content of Roku Channel is available on the apps and Website, but the Live TV Channel Guide isn't one of them.

    • CelticsFan's avatar
      CelticsFan
      Roku Guru
      4 years ago

      DBDukes I think you misunderstood. They are looking for a guide like the old "TV guide" book. Something that says what is on what channel at what time. That way they do not have to scroll through hundreds of channels to find something. Not the actually guide within Roku Live TV. StevenCee  is never satisfied either by looking at his posts.  Even when using the Roku LIve TV channel and looking at the guide there are so many channels to scroll through. At least if it was a real live tv service you could go to TV Guide online and look up what is on

      • StevenCee's avatar
        StevenCee
        Roku Guru
        4 years ago

        Sorry, but you have misunderstood. I am NOT looking for something like the old "TV Guide" book, where in the world did you get that?? On the Roku TV, there is, in fact, a "program guide", that you can access when you click on either "Roku Live" or "Broadcast TV". It shows the many hundreds of channels, what's on at what time, and what each show, episode, or movie is about.

        All I wanted to know was if that same thing can be accessed when using Roku on a web browser or phone, which DBDukes answered, quite succinctly, without personal attack, condescension, nor going way out into left field in search of a straw man...

  • CelticsFan's avatar
    CelticsFan
    Roku Guru
    4 years ago

    The Roku channel and Roku Live TV are free. They are not like a paid subscription service such as YouTube TV or Hulu + Live TV. The Roku Live TV is not actually truly live. Most of it is just airing things at a certain time. More like on demand. There is no guide for Netflix. Hulu or Prime either. So to answer your question no there is no "TV Guide" for the Roku Live TV. If you want such a feature then you will need to subscribe to a live TV streaming service.