# 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.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `globenow.tv`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://globenow.tv/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 74/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - 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.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 5 days we've observed: 2 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 0 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.
  - Supports UI / widget rendering.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http tv-globenow-live-news 'https://globenow.tv/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tv-globenow-live-news": {
      "url": "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tv-globenow-live-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.tv-globenow-live-news]
url = "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tv-globenow-live-news": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://globenow.tv/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tv-globenow-live-news --url 'https://globenow.tv/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tv-globenow-live-news:
    url: "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tv-globenow-live-news": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tv-globenow-live-news -t streamable-http -u 'https://globenow.tv/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tv-globenow-live-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://globenow.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-03 (score 73, +10)

- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass

### 2026-11-02 (score 63, −10)

- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail

### 2026-11-01 (score 73, −1)

- [security regression] Stability: unverified → fail
- [security regression] A breaking change shipped without a version bump: still 1.0.0
- [security regression] Tool “compare_event_coverage” was removed
- [security regression] 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
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 150 → 192
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 95% → 100%
- [cosmetic] “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

### 2026-10-31 (score 74)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `get_city_news` (~223 tokens)

See a place on the GlobeNow 3D globe

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.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string, required): 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).

### `find_live_tv` (~270 tokens)

Play a live TV channel

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.

Input parameters:

- `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.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 63
- 2026-11-01: 73
- 2026-10-31: 74

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://globenow.tv/mcp
- Website: https://globenow.tv/integrations/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tv-globenow-live-news/globenow