For now I came up with a solution for currently just since losing USA network last week. I thought I was going to go to Hulu On Demand which is $15 dollars a month and I wouldn’t be watching anything else on there for that $15 dollars a month. So I played around this past weekend with my CamLink 4K and the original HD Apple TV I had laying around and downloaded USA Network app and signed in with my streaming provider and started playing back the live tv channel of the USA Network. Opened up OBS and started recording the channel and everything seems to be working out great! Only thing it I tried choosing the lowest setting and for 2 hours of recording testing it was up to 15gb ish. But it will be the only thing I will be recording and I will delete it once I get done watching it. Also, you can through it into Channels to detect the commercials for auto skip.
This is what I have came up with currently. If I forget to manually record I can also go play it back the next day from on demand for the USA network app but for now this is my solution. I also have a buddy on his Plex server that puts up the show on his server and so I have a few different options. Through all of this I just didn’t want to start spending money on a live streaming service so I could start watching on USA network. But eventually it is starting to look that way. Just the matter of time I guess. I just wish it they had a la cart TV channels.