Anyone Can Launch a 24/7 Live TV Channel on Rad TV. Right Now.⚡️📺
Create and launch a Live TV channel in minutes on Rad TV.
May 18, 2026, Los Angeles, CA
Launching your own Live TV channel used to be a serious endeavor. Infrastructure. Encoding pipelines. Ad insertion. CDN deals. Carriage agreements. Connector fees per platform. Months of work and tens of thousands of dollars before a single viewer tunes in.
Even the cheap end of the FAST industry starts at $250/month minimum, plus revenue sharing, plus per-platform fees. The industry standard is many times that.
At Rad TV, we just made it $29.99/month to create as many Live TV channels as you want to spin up. Live in minutes. Distributed globally on Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, iPhone, Android, PS5, PSVR2, Quest, and web the moment you click GO LIVE.
It’s part of Rad TV Creator+. Here’s what it actually does.
Build a Playlist. Launch a Channel.
The new Creator+ feature is straightforward by design. You build a playlist of content inside Rad TV e.g., podcast episodes, music videos, shorts, AI films, livestream archive, whatever! Your content or content you love! Then you launch the playlist as a 24/7 Live TV channel.
That’s it. The channel goes live across every Rad TV app. No infrastructure. No setup fees. No waiting weeks for carriage. No engineers. No ad networks to integrate. No connector fees. No revenue split. No phone calls. No approval process.
If you want to spin up a second, third, fourth, or fifth channel—you can. Creator+ doesn’t cap how many channels you run.
We also support geo-restrictions, so you can scope a channel to specific regions if your content licensing or audience demands it.
Custom ad-insertion and programmatic revenue sharing are coming next, but today you can start earning immediately via our subscription paid out on a minutes watched basis.
How it works — watch the walkthrough
What This Can Replace
To understand how disruptive this is, here’s what launching a FAST channel costs everywhere else:
FASTChannels.tv (marketed as the budget-friendly option): $250/month minimum for one channel, plus a 30% revenue share. Or $250/month for the first output and $150/month for each additional output if you want to skip the rev share. The fastest, cheapest way the rest of the industry can do it.
Amagi, Wurl, and the other major vendors: significantly more, with per-platform connector fees that eat into channel revenue on top of base pricing.
Building it yourself: encoding infrastructure, CDN contracts, ad-stitching tech, and individual platform deals with Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Pluto TV, and the rest. Realistically, a serious year-long commitment of engineering work, platform deals, and infrastructure costs before a single viewer tunes in.
Creator+ on Rad TV is $29.99/month. Unlimited channels. Already distributed. Live in minutes.
Who This Is Actually For
Podcasters. Your back catalog turned into a 24/7 channel that runs while you sleep. New listeners discover you through linear viewing instead of having to know to subscribe.
Musicians and music video creators. Build a channel of your videos plus the videos of artists you love. Curated like a label, broadcast like MTV.
Indie filmmakers. Your shorts, features, and behind-the-scenes content streaming as your own network. A real broadcast home, not just a YouTube channel.
AI creators. Other platforms are quietly demonetizing and throttling AI work. Rad TV gives you a global broadcast channel. Your AI films, animations, and music videos discoverable on almost every device.
Anyone with a back catalog. If you’ve made content for years and most of it lives on a hard drive or a buried YouTube playlist, Creator+ turns it into a living channel.
Why This Matters
Live TV is making a comeback because audiences are tired of decision fatigue. Pluto TV, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel...the global FAST market is projected to hit $14.88 billion in 2026, with U.S. viewership crossing 131 million users this year. People want to lean back and let content play.
Until now, that lane was locked off to anyone without a major distribution deal or a six-figure budget. The gatekeepers controlled who got a channel and who didn’t.
Creator+ removes the gatekeepers. If you have content and $29.99/mo, you have a channel. If you have the audience that follows it, you have a network.
How to Start
Sign up for Creator+ at radtv.com/creators (free trial available).
Upload your content or pull from what’s already in your library.
Build a playlist.
Launch the live 24/7 channel.
We made the walkthrough video for the launch process: Watch it here.
If you have questions, reach out on Discord or 𝕏.
The infrastructure that used to be locked behind six-figure budgets is now $29.99 a month. The only thing left is what you do with it.
