And this is distinct from, say, watching 'live' CSI or Criminal Minds on CBS or CTV via gadget or smart TV? Or does stuff like that play just as well as if watching it on TV?

I know shows like that are easily streamed/downloaded but a couple in the household are still very much geared up to "Quantico is at 10.00 tonight" viewing habits, even though they are well used to watching plenty of downloaded stuff.

I guess the live sports is mostly subscription stuff and there's either some technical reason why sports channels don't 'play' so well or they "do something" to make it more difficult.

I know the bigger the footie game the worse is the picture on the computer stream (could just be that more are streaming it?) and sometimes everything looks good, but the moment the match kicks off the stream breaks and you struggle to find another half as good. It's like sabotage...which would be understandable

I can count the number of times I've turned on for TV news in the last few years on one hand. Boston, Paris and Nice.

I remember watching the UK riots on BBC News24 on the computer.

Or via FilmON, which also has BBC News (which I assume is what used to be News24)
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CBC radio morning and night, Guardian throughout the (24 hour) day and local newspaper for essential local stuff.

In the event of "an event" it would then be TV or BBC News via FilmON.

CBC Radio 1 or 2 for me if I listen to the radio. I don't listen much now as I have my spotify playlist on my phone and run it in the car via car speakers when in the car. NPR and/or BBC 3/4/5/6 at other times.

This is a good streaming link for games. It is a spinoff from Reddit which is one of the only social media formats I can stand.

https://soccerstreams.net/

with that as well as what Bristol & others have mentioned, https://www.filmon.com/tv/bbc-news, Camposat: Free. Live. UK TV., www.fmovies.se & netflix

Is that it other than cable TV, OTA & Satellite?

There's an internet rebroadcast service as well, VMedia - VMedia | Internet & Cable TV Alternative Service Provider in Ontario. IPTV, Cable, DSL, FTTN, VoIP Home Phone Provider Toronto Canada - they have decent reviews (or did when we were looking 3ish years ago) but they were recently involved in a dispute with Bell Media and are no longer showing Bell channels - VMedia pulls Bell channels amid legal threat over Roku app - Business - CBC News

Added to my spares, thanks.

THis is also a very good Kodi stream for sports (inc lots of UK football)

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-h...cer-kodi-xbmc/