The CW's New Apple TV App Doesn't Require a Cable Subscription to Watch

[MacRumors]

As promised last week, The CW network today released a new Apple TV app that allows all fourth-generation Apple TV owners to watch new episodes of shows on the network for free with no cable authentication or login required.

All of the shows on The CW, including Supergirl, The Flash, Jane The Virgin, Arrow, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, iZombie, Supernatural, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, The 100 Vampire Diaries, Reign, and The Originals are available to watch, with ads. Users simply need to download the app and click play on a show to watch, with no other hoops to jump through.

The CW's iOS and Apple TV apps focus on only the newest episodes, with no archived content available from past seasons. Only five episodes from the most recent season are available to watch, but it's all free and should be welcome news to cord cutters who are hoping other television networks might adopt similar policies.

On iOS devices, an update to the CW app introduces support for both AirPlay and Chromecast, allowing content from the iOS app to be streamed to a television set as an alternative to using the Apple TV app or as a way to watch The CW's content on television sets without owning a fourth-generation Apple TV.

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[brendu]

This is great news. Good for CW for doing right by the people who want to watch their shows.

 

[jclo]

I recommend checking out Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. One of my favorite TV shows.

 

[Born Again]

Great - now how about the rest of the networks join in - Looking at you CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX

 

[FightTheFuture]

That's my guilty pleasure: The Flash. Can't get enough of that show.

I recommend checking out Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. One of my favorite TV shows.

My ladyfriend and I binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix. It's a fantastic show that slightly fills the hole left behind by Flight of the Conchords.

 

[HarryPot]

Will this work outside the United States?

Why can't I watch The CW in Canada/outside the U.S.?
We don’t own the shows and only have the rights to broadcast them in the U.S.

=(

No surprise here, it is always the same.

 

[SqB]

CW is the T-Mobile of television, and that's a compliment. They are gonna going to piss off the cable and satellite companies doing this, but their younger viewer base is going to reward them well in the end.

Hey cable companies, why the heck should we pay again for TV that already has commercials in it?

 

[max.ine]

Anyone know if this works in Canada?

 

[usersince86]

Time for everyone else to follow. Would be nice!

 

[d21mike]

This is great for CW. Just wish they would also create a No Commercial Tier for those willing to pay for it. Really hate we lost this option under Hulu.

 

[okboy]

Anyone know if this works in Canada?

They said it would, they made a big deal out of the fact you could watch it from anywhere.

 

[lunarworks]

Anyone know if this works in Canada?

Nope. Other networks own the rights to those shows up here.

You need to ask CTV, Global, and City to step up their streaming game. (Good luck with that, as they're all owned by cable/dish companies.) I know City just launched an Apple TV app, though. Don't know how it is.

 

[max.ine]

Nope. Other networks own the rights to those shows up here.

You need to ask CTV, Global, and City to step up their streaming game. (Good luck with that, as they're all owned by cable/dish companies.) I know City just launched an Apple TV app, though. Don't know how it is.

It looks like their solution to this is in keeping it exclusive to the American App Store. Still, you could probably get around this by making an American Apple account.

 

[bladerunner2000]

Their banner needs some diversity, it's lacking men.

 

[btrach144]

Will this work outside the United States?



=(

No surprise here, it is always the same.

Only the United States of America matters. We are the dog and the rest of the world is just the tail.

 

[calzon65]

Nice to see decoupling from the dreaded set top box as well as the cable and satellite providers. Nothing worse that having a nice flat screen TV, elegantly mounted on the wall to then have all those crap cables leading to the hideous cable or satellite set top box. Hopefully more content providers will follow.

 

[lordofthereef]

Aside from the flash I don't watch any of this (and even that is a betflix deal), but this is kind of amazing. More of this.

 

[Ziich]

Awesome! this has been a long time coming

 

[Rafterman]

No cable subscription required, huh? The CW must have just realized they are the CW.

 

[Imserious]

Why is the Airplay logo on there in addition to the Apple TV ?

 

[jetjaguar]

This is great for CW. Just wish they would also create a No Commercial Tier for those willing to pay for it. Really hate we lost this option under Hulu.

Yep .. I hate sitting thru commercials and Hulu was great .. shame it's no more

 

[trip1ex]

This is great for CW. Just wish they would also create a No Commercial Tier for those willing to pay for it. Really hate we lost this option under Hulu.

How do you really hate the No Commercial Tier when it is still there?

Maybe you mean we lost the free Hulu service?!?!

 

[Rigby]

Yep .. I hate sitting thru commercials and Hulu was great .. shame it's no more

Yep. Supposedly the shows will now come to Netflix soon after the end of the season though. I'd probably just wait.

 

[jmj]

Why is the Airplay logo on there in addition to the Apple TV ?

Probably because the app is only available on the new Apple TV. Older gens will have to AirPlay.

 

[snebes]

Why is the Airplay logo on there in addition to the Apple TV ?

Last paragraph, first sentence.

On iOS devices, an update to the CW app introduces support for both AirPlay and Chromecast

Heck, even the iOS logo is on the picture too.