Livestation To Bring Streaming Live TV To iPhone

Livestation, a service claiming to be "Slingbox without the box," says they are working on an app that would let users watch live streaming TV programs on their iPhone or iPod touch. The service would let you view video being streamed to your computer from anywhere with an internet connection.

The app is currently still in development, and they have yet to announce a release date. There's a little skepticism about if they can actually pull it off, but it will be pretty great if they can. There are already a few video apps in the App Store like Hulu and Netflix's streaming video service, but this would be the first to cover live TV programs.

ITN to partner broadband TV and radio site Livestation

ITN has joined the broadband TV and radio player, Livestation, as a partner, in what Livestation's CEO called a 'perfect' arrangement.

ITN On, which is ITN's broadband and mobile content supplier, will broadcast news, entertainment and sports stories from ITN on LIvestation, 24 hours a day.

"ITN On is a perfect partner for Livestation," said Matteo Berlucchi, CEO of Livestation, in a release.

Berlucchi said that ITV On's 'continually updated' news content made it 'an ideal addition for the growing choice of news perspectives offered via Livestation'.

"It [Livestation] offers us a great opportunity to expand our business and brand globally. We also believe users will see the real benefit in viewing a made-for-broadband news channel over linear TV models online," added Nicholas Wheeler, managing director of ITN On, in the release.

Livestation has existing partnerships with Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, C-SPAN, Deutsche Welle, euronews, France 24 and Russia Today.

The platform allows viewers to watch television and radio content through a desktop broadband connection. In addition to streaming the content of its partners, viewers can also search 1,300 other channels.

News Junkies Rejoice: Livestation comes to the Mac

Online television streaming service Livestation has launched a Mac client, bringing free streaming news television to Apple fans.

P2P powered Livestation launched last year as a streaming television platform that offered legal feeds from news services such as the BBC, later adding additional channels including Russia Today, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and France 24. Livestation took their platform further by turning the service into an open streaming platform, allowing users to add their own streams to the player, and for those streams to be shared across the network, for example CNN, NASA TV and Bloomberg are now quickly available from the platform, along with hundreds of other live stream stations.

Upfront there’s nothing remarkable about the Mac client; like the Windows client each channel includes a chat room, and you can search for feeds among user contributions, but where Livestation excels is in a full screen view, where compared to internet streams it offers a rich, nearly perfect television like quality on its officially supported channels.

You can download the Mac or Windows client here.