🇺🇸 United States

IPTV USA: television for the United States

The United States is the single largest slice of the DrexTV line-up, and it is also the market where subscribers save the most: the average American household spends more than $127 a month on cable, while a DrexTV annual plan works out at $9.67. What that gets you is not a reduced package — it is broader coverage than any single cable operator sells, because we aggregate local affiliates from all four time zones instead of only the ones in your billing ZIP code.

Last reviewed 2 September 2026

6,400+ live channels90,000+ on-demand titles4K UHD99.9% uptime target

Quick answer

What United States channels does DrexTV include?

DrexTV carries 6,400+ United States channels, including national networks, all four major-market local affiliate groups, every regional sports network, and the full cable entertainment tier. American football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey are routed through US and Canadian edges so out-of-market games are not blacked out by your location.

6,400+
United States channels: 90,000+
On-demand titles: 6
Languages in this market: 4K UHD
Maximum quality

What is carried

United States channel groups

Described at the channel-family level. DrexTV holds no affiliation with, endorsement from, or sponsorship by any broadcaster referenced on this page.

National broadcast networks

All major national broadcast networks, East and West feeds
Public broadcasting and educational networks
Spanish-language national networks
Independent and religious broadcast networks

Local affiliates

Local affiliate feeds for 210+ designated market areas
All four time zones, so you can catch a broadcast twice
Local news, weather and traffic channels
Regional independent stations

Cable entertainment

Full general-entertainment cable tier
Premium movie networks and their multiplex channels
Documentary, history and factual networks
Kids, teen and family networks
Lifestyle, food, home and travel networks

Sports

National sports networks and their overflow channels
Every regional sports network, all territories
College conference networks
Motorsport, golf, tennis and combat sports channels
Numbered pay-per-view event channels

Sport

Sports coverage for the United States

Sport is where subscribers judge a service, so this is the coverage that matters most in this market.

American football — full regular season, all playoff rounds and the championship game, with national feeds plus out-of-market regional coverage
Basketball — professional and college, including conference tournaments and the national championship
Baseball — full season across every regional sports network, plus the postseason
Ice hockey — professional season and playoffs on both national and regional feeds
Combat sports — boxing world-title cards and numbered mixed martial arts events, pay-per-view included
Motorsport, golf, tennis and soccer, including the domestic professional league

Pay-per-view event channels are included at no extra charge on every active plan. Full sports coverage detail.

Floodlit stadium at night representing live sports coverage for the United States on DrexTV

Market specifics

Three things we handle differently in the United States

These are the details that separate a service built for this market from one that treats it as a line item.

Blackouts do not apply the way they do on cable

Cable and satellite carriers apply territorial blackouts based on your service address. Because DrexTV routes your session through the nearest healthy edge rather than a fixed regional headend, you can select an out-of-market feed of the same fixture. In practice this means a subscriber in Phoenix can watch a home-market broadcast from Boston.

Built for the American peak window

Our United States capacity is provisioned against the Sunday afternoon and Monday evening football peak, which is the heaviest concurrent load of the week in this market. Our North American edges are dimensioned for roughly three times average concurrency so that peak does not degrade playback.

Spanish-language coverage is not an afterthought

With more than 42 million Spanish speakers in the United States, we carry the full national Spanish-language broadcast tier plus Mexican, Colombian, Argentine and Puerto Rican domestic channels, and the on-demand library includes a large Spanish-audio and Spanish-subtitle catalogue.

Market analysis

Understanding television in the United States

The structural detail behind the line-up — why this market works the way it does, and what that means for what you pay.

Why American cord-cutting stalled, and where internet television fits now

Cord-cutting in the United States was supposed to be simple: cancel the cable contract, subscribe to two or three streaming apps, save money. For a few years it worked. Then the streaming services raised prices, split their catalogues, introduced advertising tiers, and started buying live sports rights individually. By 2026 the average American household that wanted the same programming cable used to deliver was paying for a live TV bundle, two or three on-demand services and at least one league-specific sports package — often more than the cable bill it replaced, with the added friction of finding which app has which game.

That is the gap internet television fills. A single IPTV subscription delivers the live linear channels — local affiliates, national networks, the cable entertainment tier, every regional sports network — alongside an on-demand library, through one interface with one electronic programme guide. The technical shift that made this practical is unremarkable: American residential broadband now averages well above the 25 Mbps a 4K stream needs, and adaptive bitrate streaming handles the variability of the rest.

Local affiliates, blackouts and the designated market area problem

American television is organised into 210 designated market areas, and almost every frustration a US viewer has with live sport traces back to that structure. Your cable provider carries the affiliates licensed to your DMA. Your regional sports network carries your nearest franchise. A game outside that footprint is either unavailable or sold to you as an out-of-market package that then blacks out the games you most want to watch, because the local rights holder has priority.

DrexTV is not a licensed carrier inside a DMA, so it does not inherit that structure. The line-up aggregates affiliate feeds from more than 210 markets across all four continental time zones and every regional sports network in the country. In practice this has two useful consequences. A displaced fan — someone from Pittsburgh living in San Diego — can watch their home-market broadcast with the commentary team they grew up with. And because East and West coast feeds of the same network are both carried, a programme that has already aired in your time zone is still three hours away on another feed.

Cost

What television costs in the United States

What a household here typically pays today, and what the same money buys. Figures are published list prices, not our estimates.

Typical monthly television costs in the United States compared with DrexTV
Service	Typical cost	What it covers
Cable or satellite TV package	$127+ / month	One market's local affiliates, the cable entertainment tier, and your own regional sports network only
Live TV streaming bundle	$77–$83 / month	80–100 channels, your local affiliates, no premium film channels, no pay-per-view
Premium sports add-on	$15–$30 / month	Out-of-market games for a single league, usually with local blackouts still applied
Two or three on-demand streaming apps	$35–$50 / month	On-demand catalogues only, with content leaving each library every month
DrexTV 12-month plan	$9.67 / month	6,400+ US channels from all 210+ markets and four time zones, every regional sports network, pay-per-view events, 90,000+ on-demand titles, plus 20,000 international channels

Typical United States list pricing for 2026, before equipment rental, regional sports fees and broadcast TV surcharges, which add $20–$30 a month to most cable bills.

Pricing

IPTV USA pricing

Identical to every other market. There is no regional tier, no local surcharge and no reduced channel count — a United States subscriber gets the full 24,000+-channel line-up.

1 Month

Trying DrexTV with zero commitment

$13.99/ month

$13.99/month effective

Full access on a rolling monthly basis. No contract, cancel whenever you like.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 1 Month

Free 24h trial first · no card required

6 Months

A full sports season, end to end

$79.00/ 6 months

$13.17/month effective

$83.94 billed monthly

Save 6% vs monthly

Covers a complete league season without committing to a year. The mid-point on price and term.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 6 Months

Free 24h trial first · no card required

12 Months

Replacing cable outright

Offer — now $116

$124.99$116.00/ 12 months

$9.67/month effective

$167.88 billed monthly

Save 31% vs monthly — best value

The lowest effective monthly price we offer, plus priority sports routing during peak fixtures.

1 simultaneous connection

Unlimited installs · add a second screen for $4.99/month

Choose 12 Months

Free 24h trial first · no card required

99.9% uptime target

Test United States coverage free for 24 hours

Pick a fixture during this market's peak window — Sunday 13:00–23:00 ET and Monday 20:00–23:30 ET — and watch it on the free trial. That is the only test that tells you whether a provider has real capacity here.

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United States questions

IPTV USA questions, answered

Does DrexTV include my local channels in the United States?

Yes. We carry local affiliate feeds for more than 210 designated market areas across all four continental time zones, so your own market is almost certainly included — and you also get the same networks from other cities, which is useful when a broadcast has already aired locally.

Can I watch out-of-market NFL and NBA games?

Yes. Because DrexTV does not tie your account to a billing address the way a cable headend does, you can select the regional feed carrying the fixture you want. Both national and regional sports networks are included on every plan at no extra cost.

How much does DrexTV save versus American cable?

The average United States household pays over $127 a month for cable television (GeekVibesNation, 2026). A DrexTV 12-month plan is $116.00, an effective $9.67 a month, which is a saving of roughly $1,408 a year while covering more channels than a single cable package.

Do I need a VPN for IPTV in the United States?

Not for our service to function — DrexTV works on a standard residential connection without one. Some subscribers use a VPN because certain American internet providers throttle sustained high-bitrate video during peak hours, and a VPN can stop that shaping. It is optional, not a requirement.