Other included channels serve as premium sources of entertainment and
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coverage is its lack of more mainstream entertainment and lifestyle channels,
Philo is a cheap option that covers those categories with aplomb.
Most of the more expensive live TV services also feature the major broadcast
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typically have much larger channel lineups that cover a broader range of cable
channels across the news, sports, entertainment, and family categories too. For
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or ViacomCBS networks.
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services, such as Pluto TV, and Xumo, in that its channels are actually live.
Pluto TV and Xumo have a handful of live news feeds, but the vast majority of
the available content is preprogrammed. The content on the Plex channels
available to free users is preprogrammed, too. That said, Plex Pass subscribers
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signing up for Locast.