Sometimes I can leave a channel running for a couple hours, leave, then return to it in the channel menu mode where I have to re-select the channel again. Once I re-select the channel it runs like it was before.
Why does it do this?
Is there any way I can set it to run continuously?
No. That is intentional so that ppl leave it running when not actually watching it. And to make it more difficult for others to re-stream it.