UK Roku Official Channels - News & Weather Genre

Hi, everyone !!

As promised in the previous post, here is the eleventh in my series of general overviews (i.e. listings) for the various genres within the "Official" UK Roku Channel Store following changes to the available selection of channel store categories made during late May / early June of 2015. This time it's the one hundred and sixty channels of the "News & Weather" genre coming under the spotlight:-

001. Weather Underground

002. Euronews

003. Blinkx UK

004. Wall Street Journal Live

005. Fox News Channel

006. Weather4us

007. RT (Russia Today)

008. Tagesschau

009. No Agenda Show and Stream

010. PressTV

011. The Motley Fool

012. TV Imedi

013. Sky News

014. theDoveNewsRoom [formerly The Dove Newsroom]

015. NowThisNews

016. BBC News

017. Ben Swann - Truth In Media

018. PostTV

019. Free Speech TV

020. TheBlaze TV

021. The Real News

022. Boston 25 [previously FOX25 Boston & formerly MY FOX Boston News]

023. WSMV News

024. FOX 12 Oregon

025. KCTV News

026. WNYT News Channel 13 [formerly WNYT News]

027. KSTP News

028. KOB News

029. News [by Fawesome.TV]

030. BBC Sports

031. WHEC News

032. Al Alam

033. FOX13 Memphis News [formerly MY FOX Memphis News]

034. America's Survival

035. WFTV Eyewitness News 9 [formerly WFTV Channel 9 Eyewitness News] (Orlando)

036. KIRO 7 Eyewitness News

037. The Burnie Thompson Show

038. WPXI Channel 11 News

039. Secure Freedom Channel

040. TheLipTV

041. SE Video

042. TVNweather On Demand

043. One America News Network

044. BakoTUBE

045. CB24

046. Time

047. Bloomberg [formerly Bloomberg TV]

048. WXC TV (WXC Speedway, NZ)

049. Weekend Business Report

050. The Michael Warbux News Show

051. Zoomin.TV News

052. Infowars.com

053. Nowhere Cast

054. Red State Talk Radio

055. Tastytrade

056. HollywoodTicker.TV [formerly Hollywood Ticker]

057. CBS46 News

058. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News

059. WSOC-TV Chan 9 Eyewitness News

060. ABTV - American Business TV

061. Bucks County Courier Times

062. ABC7 Sarasota Tampa [formerly MySuncoast - WWSB ABC 7 News]

063. FRANCE 24

064. Puthiya Thalaimurai TV [by Future Today Inc]

065. The Intelligencer

066. WAAY-31

067. WTXL TV

068. WND

069. Beaver County Times

070. WeatherNation

071. Mutual Broadcast Network

072. VEUER News [formerly Veuer]

073. The Economist Radio

074. Morningstar

075. FN - Financial Network TV

076. Vanguard Knightly News

077. The Weather Network

078. Wood Duck Live Radio

079. Weather HD

080. Oklahoma Weather Tracker TV

081. Crime News [by Fawesome.TV]

082. US News [by Fawesome.TV]

083. ThatChannel.com

084. Breaking News [by Fawesome.TV]

085. KRIS 6 News

086. The Mentor Channel

087. Smalltown Broadcasting, LLC

088. Puthiya Thalaimurai TV [by Nua Trans Media]

089. uCastersTV Network

090. KITV4

091. Politics News [by Fawesome.TV]

092. Viral Videos [by Fawesome.TV]

093. Al Jazeera

094. Burlington County Times

095. FilipinoNewsNetworkBy Inquirer

096. AJ Bell Youinvest

097. DW (Deutsche Welle)

098. City of Fargo, North Dakota

099. One Caribbean TV

100. WJAX Action News Jax

101. World News [by Fawesome.TV]

102. WHIO-TV

103. FYI Nation

104. The Florida Channel

105. 98,1 Radio X - Québec

106. Oromar TV

107. WBNS-10TV News

108. TRD Network (The Real Deal Network)

109. Herald Mail News Now

110. BRIEFING ROOM

111. Reuters TV

112. The Oklahoman

113. CatersTV

114. WRAL

115. Russia Insider

116. Cachicha TV

117. The Trussville Tribune

118. Barons Finance

119. PTV WORLD

120. Radar News

121. ADLTV Prime [formerly ADLTV.ORG]
122. Freedom Feens Radio
123. Storyful TV
124. Storyful Weather
125. El AntiNoti (con Sergio Carlo)
126. BuzzFeed News
127. HuffPost
128. Talk America Radio
129. Cheddar
130. Watch ILTV
131. The Humanist Report (with Mike Figueredo)
132. 92 News HD
133. i24NEWS
134. Fox Business Network
135. Central Valley TV
136. Page Six
137. The Texas Television Journal
138. TRT World
139. SCBC Television
140. CRTV
141. CDN37
142. Democracy News
143. Natick Weather
144. Salon.com
145. New York Post
146. Democracy Now!
147. Haystack TV Local & World News
148. Celebrity & Entertainment News
149. Law & Crime Network
150. Global Report - News Network
151. Politicizer - Politics & News
152. Bitcoin Channel Crypto Trader
153. WolfBytes TV
154. Australia Channel
155. Bristol News & Weather
156. Opposing Views
157. Tri-Cities News & Weather
158. WDIV Local 4 Detroit
159. TV Punjab
160. BUZZ60 Entertaining News

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PLEASE NOTE:- This information was last updated on Sunday 20th May 2018 with all the channel details accurate as of Saturday 19th May 2018. In future, when viewing this list... you should ignore the original date of the post and, instead, refer to this section for precise details on when the "News & Weather" category listing was compiled.

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As with the previous ten genres, outlined earlier, further details as to the specifics for each of these channels will follow at a later date. Again, you can expect similar overviews for each of the remaining genres to be added over the series of posts immediately following this one.

Next up will be an itemised listing of the "Music" genre, featuring 299 Channels !!


So, be sure to visit this blog again soon for even more information on the Roku streaming media player, here in the UK.

Official Roku UK Channel Store - Overview

When it comes to what's on television, be it via a Roku player or otherwise, it should really boil down to the QUALITY and NOT QUANTITY of what's on offer, don't you agree?


That said, if what you get has both quality and quantity, then you really will be spoilt for choice !!


If you visited the Roku (UK) official site as of April 2017 you would have been greeted with an introduction that boasted of "over 2,000 channels and counting", which does (I'll admit) tend to emphasise quantity over quality, although the reality is such that there are now more than double that number of Roku channels (apps) available to UK Roku users from within the built-in channel store on *all* Roku UK devices. In terms of the quality for the available channels, there were references to BBC iPlayer, Netflix, NOW TV, Sky Sports, ITV Player, Demand 5, YouTube, BBC Sport and many more. Even so, whilst the likes of Netflix, BBC, NOW TV, etc. do offer a substantial amount of quality programming, you're still left wondering exactly what is meant by "and many more"...


So, with that in mind, I decided to continue with my blog by posting details of what you can expect from, firstly, the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store and then, later, from the wider market offered by the multitude of Roku "Private" Channels out there. I'll be getting down to the nitty gritty of the individual channels within specific genres another time but, for now, here's a list of the number of channels available in each 'genre' of the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store:-


Film & TV........................... 700 Channels
Games.............................. 187 Channels
Apps.................................. 51 Channels
Comedy.............................. 121 Channels
Educational......................... 124 Channels
Fitness.............................. 75 Channels

Food.................................. 158 Channels

International........................ 183 Channels

Kids & Family..................... 396 Channels

Lifestyle.............................. 265 Channels

News & Weather................ 160 Channels
Music................................ 299 Channels
Personal Media.................. 48 Channels
Photo Apps......................... 14 Channels
Religious.............................. 863 Channels
Sci & Tech......................... 60 Channels

Screensavers........................ 253 Channels

Shopping.............................. 18 Channels
Special Interest................... 359 Channels
Sports................................. 248 Channels
Themes.............................. 19 Channels
Travel................................. 217 Channels
Web Video......................... 98 Channels


TOTAL: 4,916 Channels


It should be noted that this total does not include the following:


Featured.............................. 21 Channels
New..................................... 154 Channels
Most Popular....................... 75 Channels


These have been omitted from the overall total because they are comprised entirely of channels which are featured in the main list of genres and, therefore, already part of the 4,916 channels therein. There is also a heading within the main menu on Roku player for "Home" (that was previously referred to as the "My Channels" sub-menu) which, as it's (original) name suggests, is comprised of whatever individual items (both 'official', i.e. 'public', and 'private' channels) have been added to the particular Roku account with which the Roku player is associated. Since that figure will vary from one Roku user to the next, I did not bother to include the number of "My Channels", or "Home" channels, here.

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PLEASE NOTE:- These figures were last updated on Sunday 20th May 2018 with all details accurate as of Saturday 19th May 2018. Therefore, when viewing this list... you should ignore the original date of the post and, instead, refer to this section for precise details on when it was compiled.

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So, that's the current state of play in terms of the sheer QUANTITY of channels you can expect from the UK version of the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store. Meanwhile, in case you are wondering, my next batch of posts are set to include basic listings for the various channel names within each of the aforementioned genres. For the sake of simplicity, I will stick to the order outlined above. So, if you want to know exactly what are the 700 channels which make up the "Film & TV" genre, you should make a point of visiting this blog again in the near future.


But, for now... that's all folks !!