Who owns Frndly TV?
Frndly TV is owned by Roku (the United States, NASDAQ: ROKU), which has owned the brand since 1 May 2025.[1]
Evidence: Roku, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Roku, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Jose
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: ROKU
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Frndly TV
Subscription streaming service offering more than 50 live TV channels, on-demand video and cloud-based DVR. Roku's 10-K states that it acquired Frndly TV, Inc. in May 2025. Month-only dates are recorded as the first of the month; the filing gives no completion day.
What Roku's annual report says about Frndly TV
Sentences about Frndly TV from Roku's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Owned and Operated Streaming Apps In 2025, we expanded our portfolio of owned and operated streaming apps beyond The Roku Channel to Howdy, an ad-free SVOD service, and Frndly TV, a subscription streaming service that offers live TV, on-demand video, and a cloud-based digital video recorder ("DVR").
With both Howdy and Frndly TV, we believe our expertise in recommending relevant content to viewers and leveraging the power of our platform will drive cost-efficient subscription sign-ups and engagement, thus adding incremental Platform revenue.
In the United States, it is also available via the Roku mobile app, online at TheRokuChannel.Roku.com, and on Amazon Fire TVs, Samsung TVs, Google TV, and other Android TV OS devices. 2 Table of Contents Frndly TV In May 2025, we acquired Frndly TV, Inc. ("Frndly TV"), a subscription streaming service that offers more than 50 live TV channels, on-demand video, and cloud-based DVR for an affordable price.
How often Roku names Frndly TV in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Frndly TV
Where Frndly TV sits in Roku
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Roku
Roku controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in streaming video, and who owns them
The 36 brands in streaming video on Brandtree belong to 24 owners. The largest is AMC Networks, with 5; Roku has 3.
About the owner: Roku
Roku is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Jose, United States. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: ROKU.
American streaming platform company reporting two segments, Devices and Platform, per its 10-K. Not related to the Japanese sake brand Roku owned by Suntory or the Honduran Roku brand, which are separate records. Roku TV sets are made and sold by partner TV makers that license the Roku TV operating system, so those TV brands are not Roku brands.
🇺🇸 Frndly TV and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Frndly TV is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Frndly TV?
The parent company of Frndly TV is Roku, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Frndly TV American?
Yes. Frndly TV originated in the United States and its owner, Roku, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Roku owned Frndly TV?
Roku has owned Frndly TV since 1 May 2025.
Is Frndly TV still owned by Roku?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Frndly TV is still owned by Roku. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Roku, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 13 February 2026; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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