It is June 2024, and the world of cord-cutting has changed a lot over the last year. In the last month, multiple changes have happened, including Fubo dropping Discovery-owned networks over a month ago but updating its DVR with new features. Today, we are going to break down some of the biggest live TV streaming services so you can see which one is the best option for you.
At the same time last month, Spectrum announced a new round of price hikes in June.
With all of these changes with both cable TV companies and streaming you may be looking for a new TV provider. So, let’s dive in and take a look at some of the biggest options for streaming live TV.
*Note this list is up to date as best as we can make it as of July 1, 2024.
Next, here are the channels each service offers:
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
ABC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
FOX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
NBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CW | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
A&E | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
AccuWeather | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
ACC Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
AMC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
American Heroes Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Animal Planet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
AXS TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Baby TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Bally Regional Sports Networks | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
BBC America | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
BBC World News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
BeIN Sports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
BeIN Sports en Espanol | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
BET | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
BET Her | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
BET Jams | ✓ | |||||
BET Soul | ✓ | |||||
Big Ten Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Bloomberg Television | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Boomerang | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Bravo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Campus Insider | ✓ | |||||
C-SPAN | ✓ | |||||
Cartoon Network/Adult Swim | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
CBS SportsNet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Cheddar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cheddar Big News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Cinemax | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
CLEO TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
CMT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
CNBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CNBC World | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
CNN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Comedy Central | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Comedy TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Comet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Cooking Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Cowboy Channel | ✓ | |||||
Cozi TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Destination America | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Discovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Discovery Family | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Discovery Life | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Disney Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Disney Junior | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Disney XD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Magnolia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Duck TV | ✓ | |||||
E! | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
El Rey | ✓ | |||||
ESPN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ESPN2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ESPN Bases Loaded | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
ESPN Deportes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
ESPN Goal Line | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
ESPNEWS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ESPNU | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Euronews | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Food Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Fox Business | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Fox Deportes | ✓ | |||||
Fox News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Fox Soccer Plus | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Fox Soul | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
France 24 | ✓ | |||||
Freeform | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FS1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FS2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
fubo Sports Network | ✓ | |||||
Fuse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Fusion | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
FX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FX Movie Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FXX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FYI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Galavision | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Golf Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
getTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Great American Country | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
GSN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hallmark Channels | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
HBO | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
HGTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
History | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
HLN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
IFC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Ion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Investigation Discovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Law & Crime Trial Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Lifetime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Lifetime Movies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Local Now | ✓ | |||||
Logo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Longhorn Network | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Marquee Sports Network | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
MAV TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
MeTV | ✓ | |||||
MeTV Toons | ✓ | |||||
MLB Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Motortrend | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
MSG/MSG+ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
MSNBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
MTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MTV2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MTV Classic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
MTV Live | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
MTV U | ✓ | |||||
NatGeo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
NatGeo Wild | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
NBA TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
NBC Sports RSNs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
NDTV | ✓ | |||||
NESN | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
News18 | ✓ | |||||
Newsmax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
NFL Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
NFL RedZone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
NHL Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu + Live TV | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Nick Jr. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Nick Music | ✓ | |||||
Nickelodeon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Nicktooons | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
OAN | ||||||
Outdoor Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Outside TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
OWN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Oxygen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
PAC-12 Network | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Paramount Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PBS | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
People TV | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Pop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Pursuit Channel | ✓ | |||||
REELZ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Revolt | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
RFDTV | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Root Sports Northwest | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Science Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
SEC Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Showtime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Smithsonian | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
SNY | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Sony Movie Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Sportsman | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Stadium | ✓ | |||||
Start TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Sundance TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
SyFy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Tastemade | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
TBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
TeenNick | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Telemundo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tennis Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
TLC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
TNT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Travel Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tru TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
TUDN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Turner Classic Movies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
TV Land | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
TVOne | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
UNIMAS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Universo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Univision | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
UPtv | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
DIRECTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
USA Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
VH1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
ViceTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
WE tv | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Weather Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
WeatherNation | ✓ | |||||
Willow by Cricbuzz | ✓ |
*Sling TV will allow you to stream one or three streams at once, depending on what package you sign up for. You can also use your Sling TV login for some apps such as ESPN.
*Please check the website of services you want to try to see what locals are offered in your area.
*Fubo, DIRECTV STREAM, & Sling TV include several international packages.
*Hulu also includes access to Hulu’s on-demand service along with Disney+.
*Channels may vary depending on the package, plan, and viewer’s location.
*Found an error? Please email us, and we will fix it.
Next, you should look at which of these services works on the devices you own:
DIRECTV STREAM | fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube TV | |
Roku | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fire TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Apple TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Android TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Chromecast | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
iOS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Android | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
XBOX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
PlayStation | ✓ | ✓ |
*Note: Chromecast will work on any Chromecast-supported device like Android TV and Google TV.
DVR
- DIRECTV STREAM comes with unlimited hours of DVR storage but programs are removed after 9 months.
- Philo includes an unlimited 1-year DVR, plus on-demand programming.
- Sling TV now has a free 50-hour DVR for all Sling TV customers that is included with the price of the service. If you want more, Sling TV offers 200 hours of DVR space with no recording expiration for $5 a month.
- YouTube TV has unlimited DVR storage space and will keep shows for nine months.
- fubo offers unlimited DVR storage now with 9 months of storage now.
- Hulu + Live TV offers unlimited storage.
Below are the prices for the base plan of each service:
- DIRECTV STREAM – Entertainment plan ($79.99/mo.)
- fubo – Pro plan ($79.99/mo.)
- Sling TV – Sling Orange/Blue ($40/mo.) or Sling Orange & Blue ($55/mo.)
- Hulu + Live TV – Base plan ($76.99/mo.)
- Philo – Base plan ($25/mo.)
- YouTube TV – Base plan ($72.99/mo.)
Remember to check each service’s site for current prices because they are subject to change.
The service that is the best deal for you is the service that offers the channels you want.
So, what service should you pick?
No one but you can decide what is the right service for you. Fubo, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Philo, and DIRECTV STREAM are all great options. If you re still unsure, take advantage of their free trials to test them out and pick the one you like.
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