28-975: The Roku Channel is an American streaming service which launched in September 2017. In 2021, The Roku Channel began releasing original programming branded as "Roku Originals", including acquisitions from the defunct Quibi service. These shows have been commissioned by The Roku Channel with a partner network. These shows have been picked up by The Roku Channel for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network. These shows are one-time original events or supplementary content related to original TV shows. These series are programs that have aired on other networks where The Roku Channel has bought exclusive distribution rights to stream them in alternate regions on its own platform. The Roku Channel lists them as Roku Originals. These shows are one-time original events or supplementary content related to original TV shows. The Roku Channel The Roku Channel
56-592: A casting process. Tashi Choden of Bhutan became the second openly lesbian to compete in Miss Universe, after Swe Zin Htet of Myanmar in 2019 . Chloe Powery-Doxey, the first runner-up of Miss Universe Cayman Islands 2022, was appointed to represent the Cayman Islands after the original winner, Tiffany Conolly, was alleged to have committed an assault. Floriane Bascou, the first runner-up of Miss France 2022 ,
84-1038: A part of the "premium content" from Showtime, MGM+, Cinedigm and Acorn TV, with no subscription or trial required. The offering includes On Becoming a God in Central Florida (Showtime), Godfather of Harlem (Epix), America: The Story of Us (HISTORY Vault), Heartland (Dove Channel), and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Acorn TV). The Spanish AVOD titles free to watch on The Roku Channel include Hernan ( A+E Networks ), Hunting Ava Bravo (Wild Sheep Content, Top Dead Center Films, Chollawood Productions), A la Mala ( Lionsgate ), Enamorada ( Cisneros ), Amor Comprado ( Cisneros ), Seasons 1-3 of El Señor de los Cielos ( NBCUniversal Telemundo ), El Chema: Edición Especial (NBCUniversal Telemundo), Seasons 1-2 of Señora Acero (NBCUniversal Telemundo). The Roku Channel also includes original content, including that in Spanish, in form of Roku Originals . Content creation partners for
112-445: A partnership with Roku to launch "NBA Fast", the first FAST channel from NBA, on The Roku Channel. Roku also announced an agreement with NBA to air more than 40 NBA G League games during the 2024–25 season. In May 2024, The Roku Channel secured a multiyear rights agreement with Major League Baseball to stream live the league's Sunday Leadoff games for free. In June 2024, measurement firm Comscore found The Roku Channel to be
140-671: A report by Variety in September 2023 stated that The Roku Channel offered more than 80,000 TV shows and movies and access to premium content. The Roku Channel reported 120 million viewers by the end of 2023. In January 2024, Roku announced an agreement with Formula E to air all but 5 races per year. Roku was slated to also air Recharge , a studio program aired 24 hours after every race. According to The Wrap in February 2024, The Roku Channel offered over 400 free live linear TV channels and distributed content from over 250 partners. In April 2024, National Basketball Association (NBA) announced
168-616: Is an over-the-top video streaming service available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the U.K. Launched in September 2017, it is owned and operated by Roku, Inc . The service leads U.S. viewership for free ad-supported streaming TV and reports 120 million viewers as of 2023. The Roku Channel offers over 400 free live linear TV channels, more than 80,000 free movies and shows, and access to paid content. The service can be streamed using streaming players and smart TVs from Roku as well as other providers, or using web browsers running on PCs, tablets or smartphones. The Roku Channel
196-519: The Miss Universe beauty pageant in the United States, making the first time the pageant would broadcast on streaming television, after several years on linear television. By the end of 2022, The Roku Channel was offering premium subscriptions for over 50 services including Discovery+ , Paramount+ , MGM+ , Showtime , Starz , HBO , AMC+ , Shudder and Acorn TV . Moreover, The Roku Channel
224-621: The original content library of the defunct mobile video service Quibi for an undisclosed amount, reported to be around $ 100 million, for availability on The Roku Channel. The content was rebranded as Roku Originals . In August 2021, The Roku Channel was reported to add CBC , AccuWeather Now , FilmRise True Crime, Haunt TV , and IGN for free streaming. By March 2022, The Roku Channel included news services such as ABC News , Bloomberg , Cheddar , NBC News , Newsy , People TV , Reuters , USA Today , WeatherNation , and Yahoo Finance , all available for free streaming. In October 2022,
252-1087: The October 2024 showed that The Roku Channel gathered 1.8% of all U.S. TV use and ranked as the sixth most-watched streaming service, trailing YouTube (10.6%), Netflix (7.5%) and Prime Video (3.5%). Below is a partial list of live TV channels included in The Roku Channel for free streaming: The Roku Channel offers viewers to watch a selection of advertising video on demand content for free, requiring no subscription fee. This content includes movies from Hollywood studios such as Lionsgate , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers , and videos from publishers such as American Classics, Fandor , FilmRise, Nosey, OVGuide, Popcornflix, Vidmark, and YuYu. The channel also delivers about 2000 hours of content from Warner Bros. Discovery’s TV series and movies, including content from HBO, HBO Max, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television and more. Moreover, it offers for free
280-649: The Roku Originals include Cisley Saldaña, Liz Jenkins, Mariel Saldaña, Paul Hollywood , Prue Leith , Rich Eisen , and “Weird Al” Yankovic . Spanish-language content creation partners include Jennifer Lopez , Juanpa Zurita and Jaime Camil . Ads are often played at an extremely high volume, startling viewers. The Roku Channel offers paid subscriptions for various services including Discovery+ , Paramount+ , HBO , MGM+ , Showtime , Starz , Cinemax , AMC+ , Shudder , Acorn TV , Fuse Plus , and Vix Premium . Miss Universe 2022 Miss Universe 2022
308-753: The channel was launched in Mexico. According to Deadline Hollywood , October 2022 also saw Charlie Collier, previously the CEO of Fox Entertainment , join Roku as the President of Roku Media to manage ad platform business and content for The Roku Channel and more. Later, in December 2022, Roku announced that it would sign a agreement with the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the 70th (2022) and 71st (2023) editions of
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#1732855697912336-480: The competition a few hours before the final telecast after testing positive for COVID-19 . § – Voted into the Top 16 by viewers The Miss Universe Organization introduced several specific changes to the format for this edition. Initially, it was speculated that the semifinalists would return to twenty, similar to the number of semifinalists between 2018 and 2019 . However, due to the limited telecast time of final event,
364-470: The debut of Bhutan, and the returns of Angola, Belize, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. Seychelles previously competed in 1995 , making this edition its first time competing after an absence of twenty-seven years. Trinidad and Tobago last competed in 2017 , Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, and Switzerland last competed in 2018 , Angola and Saint Lucia last competed in 2019 , while
392-423: The event is held after the relative calendar year has ended; this previously occurred during the 2014 , 2016 , and 2020 editions, when they all took place the following year. Contestants from eighty-three countries and territories were selected to compete in the competition. Eighteen of these delegates were appointed to their positions after being a runner-up of their national pageant or being selected through
420-413: The license holder regarding the lack of support Tashimbetova received by them for her participation at Miss Universe. Latvia was expected to compete for the first time since 2006 , but their chosen delegate Kate Alexeeva withdrew from the competition after testing positive for COVID-19 prior to her departure. Ida Anette Hauan represented Norway , and participated of all pageant phases, but withdrew from
448-500: The most popular among all free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) streaming services in the U.S. In August 2024, Roku launched a new FAST channel, Roku Sports Channel, to be made available on The Roku Channel. At launch, the sports channel would show live events from MLB Sunday Leadoff , Formula E and the NBA G League and live studio programming from The Rich Eisen Show and GMFB: Overtime . Later, viewership data from Nielsen for
476-422: The number of semifinalists was retained to sixteen — the same number of semifinalists in 2021 . The results of the preliminary competition — which consisted of the swimsuit competition, the evening gown competition, and the closed-door interview determined the first fifteen semifinalists who advanced at the first cut. The internet voting was also used, with fans being able to vote for another delegate to advance into
504-453: The others last competed in 2020 . Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Morocco, Romania, and Sweden withdrew after their respective organizations failed to hold a national competition or appoint a delegate. Diana Tashimbetova was originally to represent Kazakhstan, but was dethroned and not replaced by the Kazakhstani license holder after a series of disputes between Tashimbetova and
532-533: The pageant. R'Bonney Gabriel was the oldest entrant to be crowned, surpassing Andrea Meza of Mexico in 2020 . Contestants from eighty-three countries and territories competed in this year's pageant. The competition was hosted by Jeannie Mai and Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo ; Culpo last served as host during Miss Universe 2020 , while Mai last served as backstage correspondent during Miss Universe 2014 . Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray and Zuri Hall served as backstage correspondents. The competition
560-598: The potential clash of dates with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November and December 2022. El Vocero also reported that Los Angeles, Miami, and New Orleans in the United States and Nha Trang in Vietnam were seen as potential host cities. Later in September, Miss Universe Organization president Paula Shugart stated in an interview with ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs that the pageant would be held in January 2023, confirming that
588-597: The reason for the postponement was to avoid a potential conflict with the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Shugart additionally confirmed that the host city would likely be announced during the following week. On 19 September, the MUO announced that the pageant would be held on 14 January 2023, at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana . This will be the fourth time in the pageant's history that
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#1732855697912616-443: Was also reported to have signed content licensing deals with Sony Pictures , Warner Bros. , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , Lionsgate , Disney , and Paramount Pictures . Additionally, the service offered content from existing partners including American Classics , FilmRise , Nosey, OVGuide , Popcornflix , Vidmark , and YuYu. April 2020 saw the launch of The Roku Channel in the U.K. In January 2021, Roku announced that it had acquired
644-447: Was appointed to represent France after the original winner, Diane Leyre , chose not to compete due to the lack of time for preparation, Leyre would eventually compete the following year . Camila Sanabria, the first runner-up of Miss Bolivia 2022, was appointed to represent Bolivia after the original winner, Fernanda Pavisic, was dethroned for mocking other Miss Universe candidates' headshots on her Instagram stories. This edition marked
672-473: Was launched in September 2017 as a free, ad-supported streaming television service ("FAST"), available to viewers in the U.S. Roku's CEO Anthony Wood stated in the same month that the channel was a "way for content owners to publish their content on Roku without writing an app". By August 2018, the channel had expanded to Canada, and a website version of the service was launched, allowing it to be accessed via any web browser. In August 2018, The Roku Channel
700-567: Was reaching U.S. households with a total population of 100 million, in Roku's estimates. The Roku Channel was also reportedly the most popular FAST service in the U.S. in 2021 and 2022. In February 2023, BGR reported that Roku announced the addition of nearly 2000 hours of on-demand content to The Roku Channel. This content included offerings from HBO, HBO Max , Discovery Channel , HGTV , Food Network , TLC , Warner Bros. Pictures , and Warner Bros. Television . Moreover, this content would be available to stream for free. In August 2023, it
728-583: Was reported that The Roku Channel was adding several NBCUniversal services as free, ad-supported options. These included NBC News Now , Dateline , Today All Day , NBC local stations, regional Telemundo news channels, Universal Action , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Sky News International , The Rotten Tomatoes Channel , and a Universal Crime channel. Further, The Roku Channel became available on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, in addition to Roku-branded streaming devices and smart TVs, Amazon Fire TVs , Apple TV , and Samsung smart TVs. Moreover,
756-405: Was the 71st Miss Universe pageant, held at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans , Louisiana, United States on 14 January 2023. This was the first edition held under the ownership of JKN Global Group . At the end of the event, Harnaaz Sandhu of India crowned R'Bonney Gabriel of the United States as Miss Universe 2022, marking the ninth victory of the United States in
784-432: Was the first event since 1954 not to be televised in any major American television network, but it would air on the streaming provider The Roku Channel as the official broadcaster of the show for the first time. In September 2022, Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero reported that an email had been sent to national directors stating that the 2022 edition of Miss Universe would be held in the first quarter of 2023, due to
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