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Smart TV Networks
Smart TV Networks is a direct-to-consumer, over-the-top digital streaming service. Smart TV Networks offers a library of family-friendly programming, along with a few channels that may include adult content. The channel is a division of Team Benson, LLC. Programming on Smart TV Networks continues to expand and currently includes new and original content, as well as classics from television and film.

All genres of movie and television programming are included, from comedy, sci-fi, drama, mystery and action to musicals, documentary, foreign films, real estate channels, and productions for individual businesses. The first exclusive offering on Smart TV Networks is the first season of Talent Show, programming designed to allow ordinary people the opportunity to have their talents showcased around the world. Smart TV Networks maintains multiple channels of varying focus.

Smart TV Networks currently publishes on the Roku (/ˈroʊkuː/ ROH-koo) Channel, but plans to expand to include Amazon Fire TV services in March, 2019. Roku provides video services from a number of Internet based video on demand providers.

The Roku Channel
See also: The Roku channel

Roku launched its own streaming channel on its devices in October 2017. It is ad-supported, but free. At launch, its licensed content included movies and TV shows from studios such as Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros., as well as Roku channel content publishers American Classics, FilmRise, Nosey, OVGuide, Popcornflix, Vidmark, and YuYu. It is implementing an ad revenue sharing model with content providers. It is only available in the US. On August 8 2018, The Roku Channel became available on the web as well. Roku also added the "Featured Free" section as the top section of its main menu from where users can get access to direct streaming of shows and movies from its partners.

In January 2019, premium subscriptions options from select content providers were added to The Roku Channel.

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