Roku Adds New Parental Controls and Family Friendly Programming to The Roku Channel

Roku Channel Adds PIN-based Playback Parental Controls

Parental Controls Kids and Family on The Roku Channel

Partnering with XUMO The Roku Channel Now Offers Free 24/7 Family Friendly Programming

Roku has been busy making their flagship channel better for families with kids by adding more family friendly content, and offering some enhanced parental controls.

Partnering with premium and free content providers it will make it easy to find shows made especially for the Kids and Family Entertainment Genre.

The Following Subscription Content Providers Will Be Available Directly In Kids and Family On The Roku Channel

HBO
STARZ
Con TV
Dove Channel
Hopster
Noggin
Up Faith and Family
ZooMoo

Other content like Care Bears, My Little Pony, Thomas and Friends, Super Mario Brothers and More will also be provided from content partners like Lionsgate, Mattel, All Spark, Pocket.Watch and others.

60% More Advertisements on Cable and Satellite TV

While offering all this great content in one place, The Roku Channel has 40% less advertisements than what is typically found when watching cable, satellite and live broadcast TV.

New Enhanced Parental Controls on The Roku Channel

Roku added extra PIN-based playback controls to The Roku Channel. This can help parents to create "access limits" to content their kids watch based on maturity ratings.

Once a PIN number has been set, each time a video comes on which exceeds the user defined content rating, the PIN must be first entered for the video to play on The Roku Channel.

The Roku Channel itself is free so there are no additional monthly fees.

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