FreeTube: Watch Television Online for Free

A few years ago my sister moved from her home in Alabama to Buffalo, New York. Since moving to Buffalo she's become a big hockey fan and has encouraged me to start watching it. Unfortunately it's very difficult to find hockey on television here in Alabama. Since hockey games don't air very much on television I've had to look for different ways to watch hockey games.

I often see websites that claim if you go to their website you can watch television stations on your computer. I try out many of these websites hoping that one of the television stations is a northern station that airs hockey games. Unfortunately most of them don't work. Either the site doesn't really give you what they advertise or their video player doesn't work properly. But finally I've found one website that actually works.

FreeTube is a site that you can go to and watch Television online for free. You don't have to download any kind of special software or pay money or even sign up for anything. All you have to do is go to FreeTube, choose your channel and start watching.

The different channels to choose from are separated into different categories like News, Business, Entertaiment, Religious, Music and Sports. You're not going to find channels like NBC or ABC so you can watch the latest episode of Heroes or Grey's Anatomy but it does include some popular channels like Cartoon Network and ESPN.

There is also a movies section. Each movies channel has a genre like Adventure, Classics, Comedy or Horror and that channel will always air that genre of movies. The movies section also includes my favorite station, a station called Maxx Trailers. Maxx Trailers airs nothing but movie trailers 24 hours a day. Some of the trailers are for movies coming out and some are for movies that have already been released but already released movies don't go back farther than a couple of months.

So far I haven't had any problems with FreeTube's video player either. Whenever I choose a channel the video almost always works and usually loads very quickly. The only problem I have with FreeTube is that there is currently a glitch if you're using Firefox. Once you choose a channel you can't select another channel to change to your web browser will freeze up. So if you're using Firefox the only way to switch channels is to leave the site and re-enter the site, then choose what channel you want to go to. However, FreeTube is a ware of this glitch and is working with Mozilla to get it fixed right away.

If you're missing some show everyone is talking about like Grey's Anatomy or Heroes this isn't really a solution for that. But FreeTube is a good way to find channels that you weren't aware of; there are several good stations to be found.