CNN said it has made its eight-part original series, Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History, available on its CNNgo app without the need for a pay TV subscription.

Unauthenticated access means that anyone with the app can view the series, which was exec produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson along with Dany Garcia (Seven Bucks Productions) and Emmy and Peabody Award winners Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre (Show of Force).

Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History are available via CNNgo on multiple platforms, including web browsers (CNN.com/go) and apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Samsung smart TVs, Android TVs and iOS and Android mobile devices.

CNN is also making the series available via VOD from cable and satellite pay TV partners and is also being sold on iTunes.

CNN’s Soundtracks series features rare archival footage and interviews with musicians, journalists, historians and other notable figures that include Billy Joel, Smokey Robinson, Andra Day, Pat Benatar, Patti LaBelle, Ben Harper, Paul Simon, Melissa Etheridge, Master P, George Clinton, Anderson Cooper, Van Jones, Dan Rather, Billie Jean King, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Reverend Al Sharpton, among others.

CNNgo, the authenticated TV Everywhere app from CNN that features live and VOD content, has added a platform with the debut of an app for Android TV-powered devices.

Android TV users with credentials from their MVPD can tap into CNNgo to view live broadcasts of CNN, CNN International and HLN and access a library of curated on-demand content. The launch builds on other curated videos and breaking news clips from CNN that have been available on Android TV devices since 2016.

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CNNgo is also supported on web browsers (via CNN.com), Android and iOS mobile devices, Apple TV, Roku players and TVs, Amazon Fire TV boxes and streaming sticks, and Samsung smart TVs.

Android TV is built into certain Aquos and Sony Bravia TVs and streaming players such as the Mi Box, and Nvidia Shield.

CNN has launched CNNgo on Roku players and integrated Roku TVs, a move that expands the reach of the news network’s authenticated TV Everywhere app.

During a keynote conversation Tuesday (December 1) at the Multichannel News/B&C Next TV Summit in San Francisco, Steve Shannon, Roku’s general manager, content services, noted that Roku’s audience development initiative was one of the reasons CNN decided to launch an app on his company’s platform.

CNN’s app features the network’s live feed and access to shows and clips on-demand. Toronto-based Digiflare said it was tapped to handle the custom development and design for the CNNgo app for Roku.

“With the release of CNNgo on Roku streaming devices, CNN is continuing to give viewers control over their news experience on the platform of their choice," said Rajin Persaud, CNN’s VP of Digital Video and TVE Products, in a statement.  “We’re excited to bring CNNgo’s industry-leading capabilities – like contextualizing live television and syncing video with complementary content in real time 24-7 – to Roku customers.”

CNNgo is also offered on Web browsers, the Apple iPad and the Apple TV.  Multichannel News will publish a representative view of programmer TVE apps and the platforms they support in the December 7 issue.