Court TV premieres Wednesday at 8 AM (CT)

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Watch on cable:
Cox Communications
Spectrum
Xfinity/Comcast
Coming November 1, 2019

Watch free, over-the-air with an antenna:
WGNO
May 8, 2019 on Channel 26.3
WNOL
May 8, 2019 on Channel 38.2

Court TV is also streaming live on Court TV.com and is available in the App Store, Google Play and on Roku, with more ways to watch being added soon!

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Court TV pounds gavel again as all-trial channel is reborn

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court TV is ending its long recess.

The channel for legal junkies that thrived during the trial-crazy 1990s comes back from the dead after more than a decade Wednesday amid a crime-story craze that its backers hope will launch it into a long new life.

“The timing could not be better,” said John Alleva, a lawyer and producer on the former Court TV who now is its vice president and managing editor. “The interest in true crime and this type of programming has reached a fever pitch. We’re in a perfect situation.”

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The new Court TV, available over the air and on some cable providers depending on the market, will look a lot like the old. The new owners bought Court TV’s name, logo and library, and will revive its practice of airing trials virtually in their entirety for much of the day while talking about trials and all things legal for the rest of the day.

“We’re not jumping in for a minute here, 20 minutes there,” said Scott Tufts, a veteran producer who long coordinated trial coverage for CNN and now joins Alleva as a vice president and managing editor for Court TV. “These are compelling stories of human events that will attract a large, and we believe dedicated audience.”

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The revived channel’s online component will include a livestream of its telecasts, access to its library of older trials, and the ability to quickly catch up with an ongoing trial.

Court TV will seek to lead the national conversation on high-profile cases. Producers plan to go all-in on the forthcoming Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial, set to start in New York in September.

But smaller cases in far-flung places will be just as essential to its programming.

The channel’s first live coverage inside a courtroom will be the Covington, Georgia, trial of parents charged with the murder of their newborn baby after they had reported him missing in 2017.

“The smaller trials are what really drives Court TV,” Alleva said. “The majority of the trials are going to take place in small places across America.”

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