Livestation is a free software application that provides a range of live news television channels and radio stations that can be received on a computer anywhere with a basic broadband connection. You can watch television on your desktop, or on your laptop, at home, at work, on the move, or in a hotel room, provided you have a broadband internet connection or wireless access.

Livestation allows you to receive live TV and radio news from the world’s leading broadcasters on your PC, via a multi-channel interactive application on the desktop giving you a unique window on the world’s news. You can watch Livestation full screen or minimised to fit in the corner of your screen, enabling you to carry on with other tasks while also keeping an eye on the news. You can flick between channels, just as you would on your TV set.

Livestation is legal, safe, free and comes with no strings attached.

Current features include:

• High quality live audio and video
• Channel selection and programme guide
• Programme information overlay
• Ability to scale player window from 50% to 200%
• Always on top window setting
• Full screen playback option
• Volume control and mute.

Other functions, including support for subtitles and audio description, and many other interactive features, will be added in future releases.

What’s new:

• Personalise your player with your own channels(stream bookmarks).
• Bookmark your own channels, tag them, search for them
• Watch your own channels in Livestation.
• Twitter integration

Notes: This is a pre-release version of the Livestation player which may not include all the final features and may have faults or flaws. Please only install and use this version of the Livestation player if you are comfortable using pre-release software.

Source: Livestation Home Page