Google TV adds Pluto TV integration into the Live tab

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Google TV is expanding its home screen integration with another service this week. Launched today, the free live TV service Pluto TV is adding integration with the “Live” tab on Google TV.

Pluto TV offers over 300 free live TV channels and has been supporting Google TV and Android TV as an app for some time, even going so far as to enhance a live experience on Verizon’s Stream TV for some time. Now, Pluto TV is expanding to better support the new platform.

Google TV users will see Pluto TV as an option on the Google TV home screen under the ‘Live’ tab, as well as providing content recommendations under the ‘For You’ tab. The “Live” tab on Google TV originally only worked with YouTube TV, but has since expanded to Philo and Sling TV. Pluto is the first free service to support the feature.

Starting today, we partner with Pluto TV so that you can access more than 300 free live TV channels on Google TV. Visit the Live tab to see what’s happening now or check out the free live TV recommendations under the For You tab. This new integration with Pluto TV will be available on all Google TV devices in the coming weeks.

In addition to this announcement, Google anticipates that it will add “more ways” to watch free TV on Google TV in 2022. We are taking this as a suggestion for Google TV offering its own free / ad-supported native content, as was reported at beginning of this year.

And in 2022, we’ll give you more ways to watch for free.

That report originally speculated that the feature could arrive in the fall of 2021, but added that it could arrive in 2022 “in line with partners.”

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