Roku quietly adds new free live TV channels for customers

Roku has quietly added new free live TV channels for customers to enjoy.

If you have a Roku TV or device, you can watch more than 500 free live channels on The Roku Channel, including four new sports channels that were launched Monday.

Customers can now watch women’s soccer on the channels FIFA Plus Women and its Spanish-language counterpart, FIFA Plus Español, Roku confirmed to The Independent. FIFA Plus Women is on channel 5243, and FIFA Plus Español is on channel 929.

Roku is also offering the Sports Illustrated channel, where customers can keep up with their favorite leagues, and a fishing channel called Stingray Hooked. Sports Illustrated is on channel 227, and Stingray Hooked is on 5306.

Cord Cutters News first reported on the new channels. The Independent has reached out to Roku for comment.

The Roku Channel allows customers to stream hundreds of movies, shows, live news, kids’ TV and more entertainment without paying subscription fees. But like other free streaming services, customers will have to deal with ads.

In April, The Roku Channel added a handful of free channels, including ones that air reruns of the American Western TV series Rawhide and the sixties sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

Customers can also view the tattoo reality show Ink Master and Comedy Central’s satirical show Tosh. 0 on recently added channels.

MTV en Español, which shows music videos and reality shows in Spanish, was also included in the April update.

Roku said in a letter to shareholders in late April that it had an “outstanding” first quarter.

The company’s platform revenue was up 28 percent from the year before, driven by advertising and subscriptions, it said.

Roku’s stock price stood at $127.71 per share Tuesday afternoon, up from a low of $87.15 in late March.