Instead of paying monthly subscription fees for cable or DVR's, you can visit the Web to watch all your favorite TV shows, all for free. Here are the top nine sites that offer a wide variety of popular TV shows for Web searchers, anything from sitcoms to comedy to live sports events.
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30 Sites to Watch Free TV Online- The Best Sites to Watch Free TV Online
By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide
Did you know that you can watch watch free TV online? Here are over 30 sites where you can watch free TV online, including news broadcasts, sports events, and thousands of your favorite TV shows - all for free.
- LinkTV:Global news, documentaries, TV shows, and movies.
- YouTube: YouTube is a great way to catch up on TV shows that you might've missed or find obscure clips and outtakes from your favorites.
- CurrentTV: not a traditional TV network; this is mostly user-created and submitted free online TV.
- Angry Alien Productions: silly, crazy bunnies re-enact movies and TV shows.
- PBS: PBS features many of their programs online in a free streaming format; just use this Google query: site:www.pbs.org pbs watch online, and you should be able to find quite a few.
- ABC TV: download and watch free Web TV at Abc.com.
- ChannelChooser: ChannelChooser is a good place to find many different free web TV channels, all streaming.
- BBC:the BBC's most popular stories; not all the top stories are linked to video, but quite a few are.
- wwITv.com: You can find free web TV channels from all over the world here; a great selection.
- StewieLive: Not quite free web TV, but close - you can make Stewie from Family Guy do (almost) anything you want.
- Democracy Internet TV: Over 600 different free web TV channels are available here at the Democracy Internet TV platform.
- Veoh.comp: Watch all kinds of free web TV and more videos at Veoh.com.
- Jeff's Guide to "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet": This free web TV fan has put together a great list of all the shows he could find that are ONLY available on the Web - you'd be surprised.
- Blip.tv: Watch the most popular TV shows over at Blip.tv; lots of free web TV here.
- Yahoo TV: Yahoo TV is still really getting going, but you can find a lot of good stuff here, especially trailers and pilots from upcoming TV shows.
- TV.com: Not necessarily complete TV shows, but this is a great place to get previews and snippets.
- AOL in2tv: AOL's in2tv is one of the best places on the Web to find classic TV shows.
- Vanderbilt Television Archive: What a treasure: "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989."
- BBC: The BBC has generously placed its news programs online in a free, streaming format.
- Newsfilm Library: From the University of South Carolina; this collection hosts a part of the Fox MovieTone collection.
- Choose and Watch: Choose and Watch is a free web TV site with literally hundreds of channels to choose from.
- BaseballRace.com:Watch live streaming MLB baseball pennant games and more.
- Live Online TV: Live Online TV is a good site with many free channel offerings to choose from.
- Zap2it.com: You can watch all sorts of free web TV at Zap2it, also includes news and reviews.
- Streamick: Streamick has many, many free web TV channels to choose from, but I especially appreciate that it's so nicely organized into categories.
- TVLand: Watch old and new TV shows here at TVLand; I got sucked into an old episode of Little House on the Prairie.
- NASA TV: Instantly get space updates and news from NASA's free web TV channel.
- SingingFish: SingingFish is a good place to find all kinds of multimedia. Make sure you take advantage of the advanced search filters.
- FoodNetwork: Don't have cable, but you need that recipe? No problem - you can watch free web TV demonstrations.
- Google Video: Google Video is a good place to find free web TV, however, many of the shows are pay-per-view (you can just go over to YouTube and find them there!).
- BeelineTV: Free web TV channels from all around the world.
- Yahoo Video Search: Yahoo Video Search is a good place to find music videos, TV show snippets, and more.
- RadioFreeWorld: Find free web TV here, as well as free online radio stations.
