GlobeNow.tv live news and TV
REMOTE · GLOBENOW.TV
A city's latest news videos on a 3D globe, plus free live TV channels by country. Free, no key.
Available components
Last scanned (4 hours ago)
Scores higher than 60% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category News and Social
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security80
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability74
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 577 tokens (~192/item across 3 items; 2 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability check failed: schema churn in the 5 days we've observed: 2 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 0 additions. See how to fix → Fail
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
- Supports UI / widget rendering.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 +10
- Transport: fail → pass ▲ security
- 2 Nov 26 −10
- Transport: pass → fail ▼ security
- 1 Nov 26 −1
- Stability: unverified → fail ▼ security
- A breaking change shipped without a version bump: still 1.0.0 ▼ security
- Tool “compare_event_coverage” was removed ▼ security
- Tool “search_news_events” was removed ▼ security
- Resource “GlobeNow.tv view” now points somewhere else: ui://globenow/view-f2e434bcc5.html → ui://globenow/view-0ed84881df.html security
- Tool “find_live_tv” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_city_news” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 150 → 192 ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 95% → 100% ▲ functional
- “find_live_tv” reworded the description of “language” cosmetic
- “get_city_news” reworded the description of “language” cosmetic
- Tool “find_live_tv” changed its title: Find free live TV channels → Play a live TV channel cosmetic
- Tool “get_city_news” changed its title: Get a city's latest news videos → See a place on the GlobeNow 3D globe cosmetic
- 31 Oct 26 74
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://globenow.tv/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=globenow.tv | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 2 Oct 2026 | 31 Dec 2026 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | 55b3a9aefa0f249d13616ba320dd1ea6 |
| SANs: globenow.tv | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of globenow.tv. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| tv. | present | 57277 | 8 | Verified |
| globenow.tv. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload |
| x-content-type-options | nosniff |
| x-frame-options | SAMEORIGIN |
| referrer-policy | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://globenow.tv/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://globenow.tv/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://globenow.tv/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
find_live_tv Play a live TV channel ~270
Use when the user wants to watch a TV channel or live news (e.g. 'play BBC News', '凤凰卫视直播', 'Japanese news live'). Finds free, official 24/7 live channels (news, business, kids, music, religious and more; Simplified/Traditional Chinese names both work) with country, language, whether the stream plays worldwide and current viewers. In clients that support MCP Apps the best match starts playing right away in GlobeNow.tv's player; it can move to picture-in-picture and keep playing while the user chats.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | news, business, kids, music, religious, entertainment, sports, documentary… |
| country | string | – | Country name or ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, e.g. 'Japan' or 'JP'. |
| language | string | – | Language for titles and links: en (default), zh, zh-hant, ja, ko (zh-CN, zh-TW, ja-JP… also accepted) |
| limit | – | – | Max channels (default 8). |
| query | string | – | Channel name or keywords, e.g. 'BBC', 'Al Jazeera', 'NHK', 'Bloomberg'. |
| worldwide_only | – | – | Only channels that play in every country. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_city_news See a place on the GlobeNow 3D globe ~223
Use when the user asks what is happening in a city or place (e.g. 'news from Tokyo', '台北发生了什么'). Returns the latest news videos filmed or reported there (default: last 24 hours) with outlets, coordinates and links to the city page and the 3D globe. In clients that support MCP Apps it shows a place card (city photo from Wikimedia, place name) with one button that opens the full GlobeNow.tv 3D globe at that place in a new tab, where the user drags the globe and taps a light to play that video.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| city | string | yes | City name, e.g. 'Tokyo', 'São Paulo', '台北'. |
| hours | – | – | Look-back window in hours (default 24, max 168). |
| language | string | – | Language for titles and links: en (default), zh, zh-hant, ja, ko (zh-CN, zh-TW, ja-JP… also accepted) |
| limit | – | – | Max videos (default 10). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server?
GlobeNow.tv live news and TV is a hosted endpoint at https://globenow.tv/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · globenow.tv
claude mcp add --transport http tv-globenow-live-news 'https://globenow.tv/mcp'
What is the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server?
GlobeNow.tv live news and TV is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as tv.globenow/live-news. A city's latest news videos on a 3D globe, plus free live TV channels by country. Free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://globenow.tv/mcp).
Is the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server safe to use?
GlobeNow.tv live news and TV scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server expose?
GlobeNow.tv live news and TV exposes 2 tools: get_city_news, find_live_tv. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 493 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to GlobeNow.tv live news and TV without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the GlobeNow.tv live news and TV MCP server still maintained?
GlobeNow.tv live news and TV is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.