You cannot watch many “Go Channels” unless you pay for cable TV (or pay via Hulu, PlayStation, etc.). Go to discoverygo.com and click on “Watch Live” and you’ll be prompted to sign in through your cable provider. Reply
Discovery GO does not work on U-verse unless you have a TV subscription. You should update the article to reflect this fact. Reply
I agree with Austin. There appears to be several apps that you download and then when you go to watch programming it wants your cable provider. This does not support something you can get as a cord cutter unless I’m missing something. Please update the article for us newbies. Reply
Hi Melody, Discovery GO only offers a limited amount of on-demand content for free. It doesn’t offer a free Discovery Channel live stream, unfortunately. Reply
I did a Google search to watch Shark Week 2019 for free. A list came up but they’re not free. Yes they offer free trials but then you have to still pay for it, so it’s not free! I am very low income and cannot afford to pay for anything like cable or the offers this site recommends. Extremely disappointing. I love shark week so much. Reply
Someone wrote: “If you don’t transmit ABC, NBC, and CBS live programs, how do I get the programs?” You can get them live just by putting up a TV antenna and connecting it to a converter box or to most newer flat screen TVs. After connecting the antenna to the TV’s coax (antenna) input, go into the TV’s menu and have it do a channel search. Most channels you will get will be through the DTV (digital TV) part of the scan. I have a large outdoor antenna that pulls in over 40 channels and I live 60 miles from the city. If one lives in a town with transmission towers then an indoor or attic antenna will pull in many channels. The channels you pick up will be digital channels but you don’t need a so called digital antenna. Any TV antenna will pull them to a certain extent but the farther away you are from a transmitter the larger the antenna you need. You can even buy a OTA (over the air) DVR and record the programs for future viewing. If you don’t mind waiting a week after a program airs on Discovery Channel you can often stream it from the programs website. But unfortunately, the best I can tell is that you can’t stream a Discovery show live unless you already subscribe to a network that airs the program live on TV such as DirecTV. Hope this is helpful to some. Reply
Also, Locast.org is an android and roku (and maybe others) app that rebroadcasts local broadcast TV…I live in an area that doesn’t receive good transmission, so this discovery has been really cool. Reply
You’re right. While Discovery GO offers some clips and episodes for free, you can only unlock a Discovery Channel live stream, etc., with a cable subscription. Reply
If I unlock a channel’s streaming app on my Roku with my DirecTV credentials, then I quit DirecTV, will those apps keep working or will I be booted from them? Reply
I’ve been thinking of cutting my cable TV and just keep the internet part with my current company Spectrum/Time Warner or get high speed through AT&T and then maybe use Sling or similar. We also have Roku now. There are several shows I would like to keep, the 3 local channels/networks ABC, NBC, CBS, and Discovery and History channels and CNN. Can I do all this with Sling and Roku? Thanks, John. Reply
John, I have Sling and have an antenna for local such as NBC, ABC, CBS. You can get History and CNN, but not Discovery or any of its channels like TLC, etc. That’s why I’m here, trying to find how to get Discovery. Reply
Thanks for the info on Philo… I’ve been using Sling TV for over a year now, and for the most part really love it, but I’ve missed having Discovery and the Science channel. To be able to access those for only $16/month? That’ll work. It’s a bummer that no ONE streaming service has all the channels I want but it’s nice to know that combining a few services will fill in the missing channels. Still… between Sling TV, Philo, and probably fuboTV so I can get the MSG channels for my favorite hockey team this winter, I’m exceeding the cost of a DirecTV package, especially when they offer credits to keep a long-time customer on the hook. Hopefully in other year or 2, I can take my satellite dish down. 🙂 Reply
Many of the new content on Discovery are not available for Hulu. What sevice contains all new Discovery content on demand or live? Reply
AT&T Now just announced their cheapest product will be $60 starting in December. Also, Live A Little is no longer a plan and the new ones have less for the same or more. Another good option ruined. Reply
Nearly all channels [including discovery] are available without paying a lot of dollars {$ }or pounds {£ } for cable & other providers.Any of the leading tv streaming devices such as Roku or Amazon fire stick can give you live-stream & although youtube don’t do live stream many of it’s videos are fairly recent. Personally there’s more than enough in all category for me. If I’m seeing a wild-life video from Africa or a recorded movie on youtube for the first time, it is new to me it matters not, if someone has seen it before me & it’s not costing me the earth. Reply
Used to be you turn on the TV and watch your show. Now you need a college degree, digital TV, smart device, fast connection, and a willingness to keep upgrading as the content reduces and the prices rise as soon as you have been a customer for a while. Then the provider drops your favorite show and you need to find another connection, with associated requirements specific to that provider, fight with all the technology to get a good picture. Isn’t a little much just to watch the News? Please stop complicating everything. Complicating things is not progress. Reply
