How to Watch CMT Without Cable

 
Country music, reality shows, comedies – CMT has a little bit of everything. But then there's your cable bill, which has a lot of one thing: your hard-earned money, moving in the wrong direction. For too long, cable and satellite services have been fleecing subscribers who had no other way to get live network television channels like CMT. Well, here's a bit of country wisdom for you: You can watch CMT without cable.

Here are a few of our favorite ways to stream CMT:

	Price	Channels	Free Trial
#1	$69.99 – $139.99	65+	None	See Offer
#2	$25	60+	7 days	See Offer
#3	$64.99 – $33.00	220+	7 days	See Offer
#4	$35 – $50	30+ – 130+	3 days	See Offer

The future is a beautiful place, and it's a place with no room for those legacy pay-TV services, their bulky channel bundles, and their absurd prices. So join the cord-cutting revolution, ditch cable or satellite, and keep your CMT livestream! Everything you need to know is right here in this article. Here's how to watch CMT without cable.

CMT isn’t available for free over the air, so you’ll need a pay TV service to get it. But does that mean you need to pay for cable or satellite? Happily, the answer is no. You have the option to go with a live TV streaming service instead.

Sometimes called “skinny bundles” (because their channel bundles aren’t quite as bloated — or as expensive — as cable’s), live TV streaming services are just what they sound like. They deliver a cable-like live TV experience at a lower price, and they allow you to stream your favorite channels live from just about anywhere, on just about any device you’d like to use.

Not every live TV streaming service has CMT in its channel lineup, but we have the list you need below.

DIRECTV Stream is the live TV streaming service from AT&T. Unlike traditional satellite services, DIRECTV Stream will not force you into a long-term contract and the live TV streams online — including the CMT livestream.

If you’re looking for the most cost-effective way to stream CMT live, you might want to check out Philo. Philo’s pricing is the best in the business, and that’s because it deliberately avoids the sports and news networks that normally drive up the prices of channel bundles. If you’re okay with cutting out those sorts of channels, signing up for this service might be your best bet for an affordable CMT livestream.

fuboTV is a live TV streaming service, and it's a great choice for folks who are wondering how to watch CMT without cable. Sign up for fuboTV for a CMT livestream — you can even watch for free for a week by taking advantage of fuboTV's free trial offer.

Not every streaming service offers CMT, which reveals a frustrating problem with skinny bundles: What if your channel is the one cut to make a bundle “skinnier”? Sling TV has one possible solution: It lets you create your own skinny bundle. Starting from one (or both) of two base packages, you can tack on as many “Extras” as you want. Extras are small groups of channels bundled up by category and offered in a sort of à la carte way, which means that you can add the channels you care about without upgrading to some behemoth bundle full of the channels you don't.

YouTube TV

Google’s skinny bundle solution shares a brand name with its YouTube streaming platform, but YouTube TV is very different from regular old YouTube. This service has live TV networks, just like cable — except, of course, it streams them over the internet. YouTube TV’s channel lineup includes CMT.

We said earlier that live TV streaming services make it easy to watch CMT without cable on just about any device you can think of, and we meant it. The services we suggest work great on each of the streaming platforms we recommend, including Roku and Fire TV.

Live TV streaming services replicate the live TV experience that you’d get from cable or satellite, but that’s not all that they can do. Thanks to on-demand programming and cloud DVR features, these services are also great for watching your CMT favorites on your schedule. Just choose an episode of your favorite show from the on-demand menu or set up your favorite series to be recorded every week. With cord cutting, the entertainment happens on your schedule.