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Medea Giordano Gear Team
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You don’t have to give up sports or talk shows when you cut the cord. These apps let you stream the same TV channels over the internet.
Illustration: Sam Whitney
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Best Overall
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Runner-Up
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Best for Sports and Spanish-Language Channels
FuboTV
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The Most Affordable (With a Good Lineup)
Sling TV
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With the number of on-demand streaming services available now, you can watch nearly anything whenever you want. But sometimes it's nice to scroll through a TV guide and dive into a 6-hour marathon of Property Brothers or Real Housewives. We all have our things. Subscribing to a live-TV streaming service gets you that joy without shelling out for cable.
There are quite a few options to choose from, and while they cost more than Netflix or Hulu, they give you the ability to watch livestreams of many major channels, often with more ease and on more devices than cable. These are the best live-TV streaming services for every kind of viewer.
Updated February 2021: We added T-Mobile's TVision service, available only for those on the company's phone plan. We also updated prices throughout. Jess Grey also heavily contributed to this piece.
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Medea Giordano is a former staff writer for WIRED who covered a little bit of everything including health, beauty, and pet tech. Prior to WIRED, she was an assistant editor at Wirecutter and an assistant in the newsroom of The New York Times. She studied journalism at Hofstra University and... Read more
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