# GlobeNow.tv

> GlobeNow.tv is a free website that shows live and recent news videos from authoritative broadcasters on an interactive 3D globe, plus free live TV channels from around the world. It is free to use with no account or sign-up. Pages are available in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The mascot, Polo the polar bear, writes a daily news diary.

Content is refreshed continuously: news videos from the last 24 hours to 30 days, live TV channel lists checked daily, and "Happening now" story pages that group reports about the same event from several countries. Videos are YouTube embeds from the original publishers; GlobeNow.tv adds location, translation and grouping.

When citing, please link to the specific page (city, country, channel or story) rather than the home page.

## Main pages

- [3D globe (home)](https://globenow.tv/): interactive globe with news, travel and live videos placed where they happened
- [Happening now](https://globenow.tv/event/now): stories currently being reported from several countries, with an AI-written summary
- [News by place](https://globenow.tv/place): latest news videos for cities and countries
- [Live TV](https://globenow.tv/tv): free live TV channels grouped by country
- [Polo's diary](https://globenow.tv/diary): a daily diary of world news from Polo the polar bear
- [Live webcams](https://globenow.tv/live): public YouTube webcams that are live right now, by country and theme
- [Watching TV from abroad](https://globenow.tv/tv/abroad): which channels play outside their home country, from a daily YouTube region check
- [Is it free?](https://globenow.tv/pricing): yes; what is free and what is not needed
- [About](https://globenow.tv/about): how the globe works and where the videos come from
## Live webcams by theme
- [Most watched](https://globenow.tv/live/top), [Beaches](https://globenow.tv/live/beaches), [Caribbean](https://globenow.tv/live/caribbean), [Weather webcams](https://globenow.tv/live/weather), [Florida](https://globenow.tv/live/florida), [California](https://globenow.tv/live/california), [Wildlife and safari](https://globenow.tv/live/wildlife), [Airports and runways](https://globenow.tv/live/airports), [Ski resorts](https://globenow.tv/live/ski)
- By country: https://globenow.tv/live/{country} — e.g. https://globenow.tv/live/japan, https://globenow.tv/live/jamaica
## Live TV by topic
- [News](https://globenow.tv/tv/news), [Kids](https://globenow.tv/tv/kids), [Entertainment](https://globenow.tv/tv/entertainment), [Religious](https://globenow.tv/tv/religious), [Business](https://globenow.tv/tv/business), [Music](https://globenow.tv/tv/music)
## Guides
- [Free international news live streams](https://globenow.tv/guides/free-international-news-live)
- [Watch home TV abroad without a VPN](https://globenow.tv/guides/watch-home-tv-abroad-without-vpn)
- [Learn languages with live TV](https://globenow.tv/guides/learn-languages-with-live-tv)
- [Live world news for the classroom](https://globenow.tv/guides/live-world-news-for-classrooms) — free, no sign-up; lesson ideas, news channels that play anywhere, embed widgets for class sites
- [Free world map news sites compared](https://globenow.tv/guides/free-world-map-news-sites)
- [Free 3D globe live TV sites compared](https://globenow.tv/guides/free-3d-globe-live-tv-sites) — GlobeNow.tv, Famelack, CartoTV, Worldcast, Globe TV, Radio Garden
- [Free live TV apps compared](https://globenow.tv/guides/free-live-tv-apps) — Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, Plex, Xumo Play and GlobeNow.tv: where each works and whether you need an account
- [Are free global live TV aggregators really free?](https://globenow.tv/guides/free-global-live-tv-aggregators) — yes: GlobeNow.tv is 100% free with no sign-up and embeds official YouTube broadcasts; how Globe TV, Famelack, Pluto TV and Plex pay for themselves
- [Is Pluto TV completely free?](https://globenow.tv/guides/is-pluto-tv-free) — yes: ad-supported, no credit card, no premium plan, account optional, only in some countries; a no-sign-up alternative
- [Is Tubi available in my country?](https://globenow.tv/guides/is-tubi-available-in-my-country) — where Tubi works (US, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, UK, Australia), why it is blocked elsewhere, and a free no-sign-up option for live channels
- [Is CNN free to stream?](https://globenow.tv/guides/is-cnn-free-to-stream) — not live: needs a TV provider or CNN All Access ($6.99/month in the US); free live news channels instead
- [Is Fox News free to stream?](https://globenow.tv/guides/is-fox-news-free-to-stream) — not live: needs a TV provider or FOX One ($19.99/month); LiveNOW from FOX and FOX Weather are free
- [Is MSNBC (MS NOW) free to stream?](https://globenow.tv/guides/is-ms-now-free-to-stream) — not live: needs a TV provider or MS NOW Membership ($7.99/month); free alternatives listed
- [Live news time converter](https://globenow.tv/tools/live-news-time-converter) — free tool: local time where 100+ free live news channels broadcast, and convert any broadcast time to yours
- [Public API for AI agents](https://globenow.tv/integrations/chatgpt) — free read-only API (OpenAPI: https://globenow.tv/api/public/v1/openapi.json) to search live TV channels, live webcams and city news
- [MCP server](https://globenow.tv/integrations/mcp) — public read-only MCP endpoint https://globenow.tv/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth): get_city_news (place news that plays right away), find_live_tv; MCP Apps view (GlobeNow.tv player that starts right away, picture-in-picture, full 3D globe) for clients that support it
- [WordPress plugin](https://globenow.tv/integrations/wordpress) and [Notion embeds](https://globenow.tv/integrations/notion) — embed live news, TV and webcam widgets
- [How to watch the 2026 midterm election results live for free](https://globenow.tv/guides/watch-us-election-results-live-free) — election night 3 Nov 2026: free streams (ABC News Live, NBC News NOW, CBS News 24/7, LiveNOW from FOX, PBS), local stations, start times worldwide
- [Free YouTube live TV availability report](https://globenow.tv/guides/live-tv-availability-report) — daily share of official YouTube live TV channels that play worldwide, by category, country and blocking country; CSV download
- [Watch stock markets live](https://globenow.tv/guides/watch-stock-markets-live)
- Watch TV in a language abroad: https://globenow.tv/guides/watch-{language}-tv-abroad — e.g. https://globenow.tv/guides/watch-spanish-tv-abroad
## Comparisons
- How GlobeNow.tv differs from other free or paid services: https://globenow.tv/alternatives/{service} — pluto-tv, tubi, plex, roku-channel, xumo-play, youtube-tv, fubo, abc-news-live, globe-tv, radio-garden, famelack, drive-and-listen, haystack-news, earthcam, windowswap, worldcam, skylinewebcams, webcamtaxi, explore-org

## URL patterns

- City news: https://globenow.tv/place/{city} — e.g. https://globenow.tv/place/tokyo
- Country news: https://globenow.tv/place/country/{country} — e.g. https://globenow.tv/place/country/japan
- Story: https://globenow.tv/event/{story}
- Live TV by country: https://globenow.tv/tv/{country} — e.g. https://globenow.tv/tv/japan
- Live TV channel: https://globenow.tv/tv/{country}/{channel}
- Other languages: prefix any path with /zh (Simplified Chinese), /zh-hant (Traditional Chinese), /ja (Japanese) or /ko (Korean)

## Feeds

- [Happening now + city news (RSS)](https://globenow.tv/rss.xml), [中文](https://globenow.tv/zh/rss.xml), [日本語](https://globenow.tv/ja/rss.xml)
- [Polo's diary (RSS)](https://globenow.tv/diary/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap index](https://globenow.tv/sitemap.xml)
- [Channels that play worldwide (CSV)](https://globenow.tv/tv/abroad/worldwide-channels.csv): channel, country, category, language, last check date and links
- [Live TV and webcams in Google Earth](https://globenow.tv/guides/google-earth-live-tv-webcams-kml) — how to open the KML files
- Google Earth files (KML): [all live TV channels](https://globenow.tv/tv/abroad/live-tv-channels.kml), [webcams live now](https://globenow.tv/live/webcams.kml)

## Optional

- [Full index with current stories, countries and cities](https://globenow.tv/llms-full.txt)
- Embeddable widget: https://globenow.tv/embed/place/{city} (globe + latest local news, free to embed with attribution)