Channel 4 now lets you watch live shows on Android devices

Apr01

by Sindy Cator on April 1, 2016 at 10:05 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, UK

UK broadcaster Channel 4 is now letting Android owners watch shows directly from a smartphone or tablet as they’re broadcast on television, rather than needing to wait and watch it on catchup. Previously only available to the company’s panel of Core4 trial viewers, the Watch Live option is now available to all, just ahead of the Grand National, the channel’s first live Formula 1 broadcast and the Paralympics in Rio later this year. Clearly, given the pitching of its sporting events coming up in the future, Channel 4 is hoping that the Watch Live feature will help the channel reach…