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Recommended Online TV Channels

With the Internet, there are thousands of TV channels available.

As for the ones the U.S. audience wants the most, the pickings are a bit slim in terms of quality, stability, and legality.

With those three keys in mind, here is a list of recommended TV Channels Online for the U.S.:

“West” means the western U.S.A. feed, usually in Pacific Time Zone.

Most of those live streams will take about 15 seconds to start, and some require custom player downloads.

For a bigger picture of channels online, try Spreety’s Online TV Channels page.

Feb 6 Update: For the channels from TVU, the embedded player has been updated.

Lost Seasons Online

For all those Lost lovers, every episode of all five seasons of Lost are online at the ABC site.

As extra media, the following are recommended:

For more shows, go to Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online.

Presidential Inauguration Online

The festivities start at 10am ET, with the oath just after noon ET.

There are hundreds of places to watch online, so to keep things simple, here are the top 3:

For many more choices, go to the Spreety Presidential Inauguration page and the Spreety News Genre page

Winter TV Premieres Online (1/16)

The following TV shows have recently premiered online, with links to watch:

Show Site
13 Fear Is Real CW
24 FOX
According to Jim ABC
The Bachelor ABC
Battlestar Galactica Sci Fi
Bromance MTV
The City MTV
Confessions of a Teen Idol VH1
Daddy’s Girls MTV
Dietribe Lifetime
Homeland Security U.S.A. ABC
Intervention A&E
Kyle XY ABC Family
Leverage TNT
Scrubs ABC
Secret Millionaire FOX
Smile…You’re Under Arrest FOX Reality
Superstars of Dance NBC
Tool Academy VH1
True Beauty ABC
Tyler Perry’s House of Payne TBS

For full listings, try Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online and Spreety TV iPhone.

Spreety TV iPhone – New Video


A new training video demonstrates the Spreety TV iPhone site (http://iphone.spreety.com). To use Spreety TV iPhone from your iPhone / iTouch, open the Safari browser, and type in iphone.spreety.com.

Limited full episodes and a fair amount of clips and shorts are available for your iPhone.

Since this is a new area that is changing rapidly, please share your feedback on this blog or by emailing Spreety@spreety.com.

BCS Florida – Oklahoma Online

As a quick post, FOX Sports will webcast the BCS Florida – Oklahoma game online, with multiple, selectable camera angles. Click here for the link.

NFL Rewind Online

For the U.S.A. NFL fans, unfortunately, there are no known legal online live feeds of the NFL playoff games.

What NFL.com offers are full re-broadcasts after the game, for about $5 a week.

To register, go to:

When it comes to the Super Bowl, many channels around the world broadcast the Super Bowl live on their Internet feeds. Given the questionable legality for the U.S.A. audience, we at Spreety will only recommend the clearly legal links.

Jan 26 update:
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iPhone TV Online

With your iPhone, have you ever wished to watch 30 Rock, The Office, or even MacGyver while at the dentist, on the road, etc.

The Spreety team is pleased to share that NBC, CBS, CW, and others have limited full episodes and clips available to stream to your iPhone. They are free, legal, and do not consume the precious iPhone memory.

The featured shows, marked with stars, work on the iPhone. The shows without stars are listed in hopes that they may one day work on an iPhone.

Go to http://iphone.spreety.com with your iPhone Safari browser to find the best mobile TV content.

Since this is a new area that is changing rapidly, please share your feedback on this blog or by emailing Spreety@spreety.com.

Jan 3 addendum:

  • For the CBS iPhone shows, a Wi-Fi connection is recommended.
  • For streaming iPhone full episodes, typically they are separated into 4 clips for half hour shows, and 7 clips for full hour shows.
  • As with anything technologically new, there are a few glitches. Occasionally, the loading of a clip can error out, and will work fine when trying again later.

Jan 8 Addendum – New video highlighting top iPhone content:

Rose Parade Online

Happy New Year!

To watch the Tournament of Roses Parade at 8 am PT / 11 am ET:

For those interested in the Rose Bowl game, the live video does not appear to be legally online. The legal substitutes online are: