GlobeNow.tv live world news MCP Server

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answering

GlobeNow.tv live world news is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Live world news events, country-by-country coverage and a city's latest news videos. Free, no key.

Uptime history 15 hours of history · worst hour 67%

15 hours agonow

98.1%

Uptime 24h

53 of 54 checks

Tools

read from the server

1289 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

GlobeNow.tv live world news does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://globenow.tv/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

city

get_city_news

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.

live

find_live_tv

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.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://globenow.tv/mcp	streamable-http	answering	459 ms	1 min ago

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GlobeNow.tv live world news — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GlobeNow.tv live world news do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_live_tv, get_city_news. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is GlobeNow.tv live world news working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 53 of 54 checks got a reply (98.1%), average response time 1289 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect GlobeNow.tv live world news?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does GlobeNow.tv live world news need an API key?

No. GlobeNow.tv live world news completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is GlobeNow.tv live world news?

It answers our handshake in 1289 ms on average, which is faster than 2% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.