The San Francisco-headquartered DistroTV, which is America’s one of the biggest independent, free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform, on Tuesday announced it has added 120 new TV channels to expand its core content categories, across news, media and entertainment, sports and lifestyle.

This is in addition to growing its multicultural content line-up to include new channel offerings to cater to English, Southeast Asian, Indian and Spanish-speaking audiences, apart from a new bundle of channel content targeting the African community.

After the new additions, DistroTV’s channel library strength is more than 270, with it now being available in more than 60 markets through its apps on streaming devices and smart TVs, as well as worldwide through distro.tv on the web.

As per the company’s press release, its rapid global expansion empowers media companies to break down content barriers and bring diverse and independent content to global viewers, wherever they may be watching, in a FAST market.

Through DistroTV’s easy-to-use interface, viewers can instantly watch their favourite channels and shows needing no registration, sign-up or fees.

Navdeep Saini, Co-founder and CEO of DistroScale, the parent company of DistroTV, said, “The FAST market is on an incredible and steep upward growth trajectory, with even paid streaming platforms now understanding that if they do not embrace and ride this wave, they’ll get left behind.”

“At DistroTV, we’ve long been on a mission to break down barriers to entry and provide free TV for global audiences who want and deserve access to free, engaging programming across a range of cultures and languages. If our growth figures are any indication, we’re well on our way to accomplishing our goals, and we have no plans of slowing down,” Saini added.

Key highlights of DistroTV offerings in the US, UK, Canada include:

• 45 sports channels, doubling the initial channel count to include the most diverse collection of live and linear mainstream sports, combat sports, niche sports, and outdoors channels like beIN SPORTS Xtra, Swerve Sports, IMPACT Wrestling Channel, FlightNetwork, ACL Cornhole, MotoAmerica TV and FuelTV.
• 13 documentary channels; notable new additions include Goalcast, Beautiful Planet and True History.
• Notable new additions to the entertainment and lifestyle category include AXS TV Now, Heritage+, Planet Eat and the return of Canadian foodie favorite, GustoTV.
• A total of 21 Spanish-language channels are available in North America such as Casa Comedy and Spanglish, apart from the existing bundle of entertainment, documentaries, news, and sports channels launched earlier this year, for a total of 25 Spanish-speaking channels globally. DistroTV Español is aimed at speakers in the US, as well as in Latin America, and included the platform’s premiere of its first original movie,‘Escándalo Secreto: En Plena Cuarentena’, which has seen impressive adoption across all LatAm audiences, both in the US and Latin American markets.
• The expansion of free-to-stream Indian channel content through DistroTV Desi. The bundle doubled since launch from 15 channels to 36 live streaming channels, featuring new additions such as ABP, Bollywood Prime, Epic, FOODFOOD by renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor and Desi TV. The addition of these channel bundles will bring even more viewing access and content options to a multicultural Spanish-speaking and Southeast Asian audience.
• The release of a new African channel bundle, DistroTV Africa, featuring 11 entertainment and music-oriented channels available to stream for free globally and available in countries such as Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Tanzania and in those countries’ native languages.