Tom Rowland, professional fishing guide in the Florida Keys and host of the Tom Rowland Podcast and Saltwater Experience on television, reveals how to access free fishing and hunting content on your Smart TV. In this How 2 Tuesday episode, Tom walks through the exact steps to find and watch Waypoint TV on VIZIO and Samsung Smart TVs, showing viewers how to access all 19 seasons of Saltwater Experience and other premium outdoor content without a cable subscription. He demonstrates two different methods on Samsung TVs and explains why so many people are cutting their cable in favor of free streaming channels packed with quality fishing and hunting shows available 24/7.
On VIZIO, go to the home menu, click Live TV, and scroll to Waypoint TV channel 1330. On Samsung, either go to Samsung TV Plus and find Waypoint on channel 2487, or install the Waypoint TV app from the app selection menu to access all on-demand fishing and hunting content including 19 seasons of Saltwater Experience.
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Most VIZIO owners don't realize they're sitting on a goldmine of free fishing content. Tom walks through the simple navigation that unlocks Waypoint TV's 24/7 streaming channel. Starting from the first menu page, he shows exactly where to click on the sidebar menu to reveal all available channels. The key is the Live TV option that populates every free channel available on your VIZIO, including the channel number you need to remember. Once you know where Waypoint lives in the channel lineup, you can jump straight to it anytime to catch Saltwater Experience and dozens of other outdoor shows. The VIZIO walkthrough starts at the beginning of the episode.
Samsung users actually have more options than they think. Tom demonstrates that Samsung TV Plus offers Waypoint as a live channel on 2487, but there's a smarter way to watch if you want control over what you see. The sports and outdoors category provides a shortcut to find outdoor content fast, showing all 34 available channels in that genre. But the real power move is installing the dedicated Waypoint TV app, which unlocks something the live channel can't offer. This second method gives you access to every episode on demand, letting you choose exactly what you want to watch instead of waiting for it to air. The Samsung tutorial with both methods starts around 1:00.
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This is where the Waypoint TV app becomes a game-changer. Tom opens the app and reveals the treasure trove of content available at your fingertips. All 19 seasons of Saltwater Experience are archived and ready to stream, with a new season coming soon. The app organizes everything by show, making it simple to binge your favorite series or discover new ones. Tom shows how Saltwater Experience appears in the trending section, but you can also browse by title to find Into the Blue and every other Waypoint original. The interface is clean and the content is completely free, which explains the massive shift away from traditional cable. The on-demand content demonstration starts around 2:30.
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SubscribeTom makes a compelling case for why cord-cutting has become so popular among fishing and hunting audiences. Smart TVs and connected devices now deliver so many free channels packed with quality outdoor programming that cable packages can't compete on value. With Waypoint TV running 24/7 and offering complete on-demand libraries of shows like Saltwater Experience, viewers get more content, more control, and zero subscription fees. The interface is intuitive, the content is premium, and the access is unlimited. Tom's walkthrough proves that the technology barrier has completely disappeared, making this accessible to anyone who can navigate a basic TV menu. Tom's perspective on the cable-cutting trend comes near the end of the episode.
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I know a lot of people still think streaming is complicated or that you need some tech background to figure this stuff out. That's just not true anymore. These Smart TVs make it incredibly simple to access better content than you'll find on most cable packages, and you're not paying a dime for it.
Waypoint TV has become the home for quality fishing and hunting shows, and having all 19 seasons of Saltwater Experience available on demand is something I'm really proud of. Whether you're looking to learn new techniques, scout new destinations, or just enjoy watching great fishing content, it's all right there waiting for you.
If you've been putting off cutting your cable or you didn't know you had access to this content, take five minutes and follow along with this tutorial. You'll be watching Saltwater Experience and everything else Waypoint offers before you know it. This one's a quick hit that'll actually improve your day-to-day TV watching.
Waypoint TV is channel 1330 on VIZIO Smart TVs. You can find it by going to the home menu, selecting Live TV from the sidebar, and scrolling to channel 1330 in the channel list.
On Samsung TVs, you can watch Saltwater Experience by accessing Waypoint TV on channel 2487 through Samsung TV Plus, or by installing the Waypoint TV app to stream all 19 seasons on demand. The app method gives you complete control over which episodes you watch.
Yes, Waypoint TV is completely free on Smart TVs. Both the live channel and the on-demand app provide access to fishing and hunting shows at no cost, which is one reason so many people are cutting their cable subscriptions.
All 19 seasons of Saltwater Experience are available to stream on the Waypoint TV app. A new season is coming soon, and all episodes can be accessed on demand through the app on Smart TVs.
Waypoint TV features numerous fishing and hunting shows including Saltwater Experience and Into the Blue. The platform runs 24/7 with a variety of outdoor content, and the app allows you to browse all shows by title and view them on demand.
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In this episode: "how to find your favorite fishing shows including Saltwater Experience" on a smart TV — "Waypoint is channel thirteen thirty on Vizio," "channel two four eight seven" on Samsung TV Plus, installing the Waypoint TV app, "all nineteen seasons of Saltwater Experience" on demand, and "why so many people are cutting their cable" — in the exact words spoken.
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Tom Rowland: Smart TVs everywhere have tons of free content, and I'm gonna show you how to find your favorite fishing shows including Saltwater Experience right now.
Tom Rowland: So if you turn on your TV, this one that I'm looking at right now is a VIZIO. You come to the first menu page, and if you don't have Waypoint or you haven't been to Waypoint yet, you'll need to go over to the sidebar menu. And right below home, you could see live TV. You click live TV and you will see all the channels populate, including Waypoint. Waypoint is channel thirteen thirty on Vizio. You you scroll down to that. You click Waypoint TV, and you can watch all of the live channel. It's on twenty four seven, your favorite hunting and fishing shows, including Saltwater Experience. Saltwater Experience is coming on at 03:00 today, so we'll be able to watch that.
Tom Rowland: On Samsung, you do it this way. Okay. On a Samsung TV, what you're gonna do to find Waypoint TV and watch Saltwater Experience is to go to the home screen, and there are two ways to watch. You can watch it on the live channel. And so if you go down to the home screen, you see Samsung TV plus. You're gonna click Samsung TV plus. That is going to open your free channels on Samsung TV plus.
Tom Rowland: Channel two four eight seven is waypoint. So you can either go straight there or you could click live TV, and you will come up with a list of all of your channels that you have available to you, and you can see them right here on live TV. You can see all of the channels.
Tom Rowland: If you're looking for Waypoint for the first time, you can go to your, the side menu and you see sports and outdoors. There's 34 channels, and that gets you to a shortcut of where you can see all of the sports and outdoor channels. Again, Waypoint is channel two four eight seven. That is one way to watch it.
Tom Rowland: The other way to watch it is to go back to the home screen and go all the way across on the bottom. You can see the apps that are installed. If you don't have Waypoint installed, you can go to the app selection and you can install it. I know that Waypoint is all the way over here on my TV. It's right there. I wanna click that.
Tom Rowland: It's gonna open the TV app, the Waypoint TV app, and this is where you can see and view everything that's on Waypoint TV, and you can you can, view on demand. So if you like Saltwater Experience, you wanna see all of the episodes of Saltwater Experience, this is where you go. Into the Blue, any other TV show that you like, they're all available right here. At the top, I see watch, and then you see trending now. It just so happens that saltwater experience is right there on the trending now. So if you go down, you click Saltwater Experience, you can see all nineteen seasons of Saltwater Experience, and the new season will be coming up. You just keep on clicking down here. You could see any of these shows anytime you want for free, and they are all available on the Waypoint TV app.
Tom Rowland: This is one of the reasons why so many people are cutting their cable. Smart TVs and connected TVs have so many free channels and so much good content, including Waypoint TV that has all of your favorite fishing and hunting shows. Check it out now.
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