Livestation is live TV news online
More than 20 channels provided by the world's leading news organisations
Watch for free, or subscribe for premium services to watch more channels, and in higher quality
Our free services
Free live TV and radio channels
Livestation provides you with a wide range of high quality channels
from leading news broadcasters. You can watch for free online on our
website or using our free desktop player.
See our full list of channels »
Free desktop player
We developed the Livestation Desktop Player to be able to offer you enhanced features while you watch. Chat in real time , use Twitter and Twitpic integration to let people know what you think of the news, or just keep it in the corner of your screen while you work.
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Works with Windows, Mac and Linux
User added channels
You can also use the desktop player to watch a collection of bookmarked, publicly available streams which our users have added to the service. Please note that we don't actively maintain this list so the user added channels may not all work all the time.
Our premium services
Premium channels
Some of our channels are available on a monthly subscription basis After subscribing you can watch the channel in higher quality online and in our desktop player. There is no long term commitment, you can cancel at any time.
Livestation Pro Desktop Player
All the same great features as on our free player and much more. Upgrade to Livestation Pro to unlock all the advanced features of Livestation.
No banners or ads on channel change
We are partnering with a number of agencies to deliver targeted advertising around the player while you watch.
Over the next few months we'll be tuning this service, but you can remove all Livestation advertising right now by upgrading your account to Pro.
Unlimited Multiview
A new feature in Livestation is the ability to watch several channels at once, with instant toggling between them.
In our free desktop player you can watch two channels at the same time, but with Livestation Pro you can watch as many channels as your internet connection will allow.
Great for journalists, producers and news junkies alike. TV will never be quite the same again with Livestation Pro.
More chat features
Pro subscribers get the benefit of being able to watch one channel while chatting in a different room. In addition you can lock the room you are in so the chat can keep going even as you browse other channels.
Handy if you want to carry on chatting while checking out the Panda Cam from the Washington Zoo, and especially useful when using Multiview to keep tabs on the world from every angle.
More reliable delivery, wherever you are
Livestation Pro channels are all backed by a high performance network giving more dependable access to our channels. Get the best Livestation experience where you are today by upgrading to Livestation Pro.
* Livestation Network Pro is limited to certain partner channels. See which ones
Unlimited upgrades
Any new pro features that we develop will be automatically added to your account, so you can buy now and experience all the cool new ideas we come up with first.
So upgrade to Livestation Pro today and find out what you're missing, now and in the future.
Works with Windows, Mac and Linux
Livestation Network Pro
With Livestation Pro you can experience better reliability when connecting to the following Livestation partner channels:
What's all this about?
Traditionally, Livestation's channels are all broadcast from a single server location. This sometimes causes people problems when they try and connect from remote locations like New Zealand.
Livestation Pro eliminates this problem by using industry-leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure, which brings the video stream to a server much closer to your own internet service provider. By paying for Livestation Pro you allow us to cover the cost of providing this higher level of service to you.
Why aren't all the channels included?
Some Livestation partner channels are delivered directly from the content owners. We don't re-publish these streams, and most of the time they are already delivered over a CDN, so you should already get the best performance from these channels.
User added channels are also not managed by us so we cannot pass these through our infrastructure either. As always, we cannot be responsible for the quality or reliability of user added channels.
iPhone Applications
You can now watch several of our partner channels on your iPhone. Keep the pulse of the news anywhere with your iPhone. Download them today from the Apple App Store.
