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Channel Surfer brings TV guide style browsing to YouTube

Mar 13th 2026

Channel Surfer is a new web app that lets you channel surf curated YouTube feeds using a familiar TV guide layout; it launched recently, attracted about 10,000 users on day one, and currently offers around 40 manually programmed channels but lacks recording and has some rough edges.

  • Channel Surfer repackages YouTube feeds into a TV guide style website.
  • The interface uses an Electronic Program Guide layout with categories like sports, news and AI and shows up to 24 hours of programming.
  • The site went live recently and drew about 10,000 users on its first day.
  • Content is manually programmed across roughly 40 channels and users cannot record shows.
  • The site is early stage and has usability issues, such as videos sometimes resuming after pause.

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