Business Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73 a month, blaming content costs - Jesus fuck. Who pays for this shit?

Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73 a month, blaming content costs

YouTube TV is Google's cable replacement. It provides access to live TV and cable channels, delivered through an internet connection.

www.cnbc.com

Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73, blaming content costs

archived 17 Mar 2023 00:37:56 UTC

archive.is

Google announced a price increase for its YouTube TV subscription on Thursday. It’s rising from $65 per month to $73 per month starting in April, according to an email sent to subscribers Thursday.
YouTube TV is Google’s cable replacement. It provides access to live TV and cable channels, delivered through an internet connection.

“As content costs have risen and we continue to invest in the quality of our service, we are updating our price to keep bringing you the best possible service,” the company said in the email to subscribers.

Google’s move to hike the price of its over-the-air subscription for cord cutters comes after several competing online streaming services have also raised the amount they charge, including services from Disney, Apple and HBO.

In December, YouTube TV secured rights to the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package, which will allow it to sell a bundle of out-of-market NFL games that don’t air on local TV to subscribers around the country.

YouTube will pay about $2 billion per year for the package, CNBC reported, which had several other bidders including Apple and Disney. Google hasn’t announced pricing for its “Sunday Ticket” bundle, but it cost $80 per month under its previous owner, DirecTV.

Google will also lower the price of an add-on to access higher-resolution 4K streams from $20 per month to $10 per month, according to the email.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I use Youtube every day

What the fuck is YoutubeTV?

 

[mlanguishi]

I use Youtube every day

What the fuck is YoutubeTV?

Youtube's new President is YoutubeTV's baby daddy it seems,. It's going to get a huge push. There is so little on network TV worth watching now, I really haven't noticed not having it. Everything you want is out for free with the mildest of effort anyway.

They also IP restrict 'shared' to the billing address, from what I can tell. Not being able to share it to a single other person is really crap.

 

[vomitusdeux]

People actually pay for that? I looked into it when I cut cable out for good with all the nigger propaganda, and it was stupidly priced even back then. Fuck youtube TV.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I use Youtube every day

What the fuck is YoutubeTV?

It's cable TV with Tivo features in the Cloud.

I'm sure it makes sense for some boomer or consoomer, but yeah.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

I’ve looked at the whole cutting cable thing. Live sports is always the deal breaker as I’ll end up paying like 3 companies the same I pay xfinity. So.. why?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I use Youtube every day

What the fuck is YoutubeTV?

Was that the service they had that released and cancelled Scare PewDiePie on?

 

[Retink Retunk]

First Susan jumps the ship, now the Twitch CEO, and prices are going up all around. Looks like globohomo didn't work out for big tech.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Was that the service they that released and cancelled Scare PewDiePie on?

Youtube Red, which is now Youtube Premium.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

Wow, sure am glad I am not a mouth breathing retard who can enjoy not supporting this BS through piracy in the extremley rare case when something comes out that is worth watching.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Youtube Red, which is now Youtube Premium.

Wait, so Youtube now has two paid subscription services? Youtube Premium and Youtube TV? Why?

 

[Hanged Man]

First Susan jumps the ship, now the Twitch CEO, and prices are going up all around. Looks like globohomo didn't work out for big tech.

Youtube and Twitch still allows anyone to freely upload and stream content with whatever they please. Sure, they can try to hunt down that content to delete or ban them from the platform, but that still doesn't matter with the ESG scoring and their expected standards. I am more surprised that they didn't push limitations like Pornhub requiring real life verification before you can start uploading content.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I’ve looked at the whole cutting cable thing. Live sports is always the deal breaker as I’ll end up paying like 3 companies the same I pay xfinity. So.. why?

I was going to say, even at the previous price of $65 a month that's just exactly what I'm paying for cable currently, and at $73 it's actually more now.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Wait, so Youtube now has two paid subscription services? Youtube Premium and Youtube TV? Why?

Premium is meant to be for Youtube the platform with no ads and shit like that, YT TV is actual television streaming. They share a name but are effectively two completely difference services.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

$73 a month? I could upgrade my Hulu subscription to include Disney+ and ESPN ad free for $20 a month. Premium Netflix is the same price. What on Earth does YouTube TV have that justifies a $65-$73 a month charge?

Edit: just saw @Moja Zemlja post that it has actual television streaming so I guess that justifies the cost. Is it all channels or just basic cable?

 

[Epic Fail Man]

It really has quite literally turned into PooTube since a pajeet took over.

 

[Matt Damon]

I'm perfectly happy to let those people pay more while I continue to not even see ads on YouTube.

Thanks for subsidizing my usage.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Newpipe

Piped.video

Freetube

ReVanced

If you're still vanilla with youtube you've willingly taken the L

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Newpipe

Piped.video

Freetube

ReVanced

If you're still vanilla with youtube you've willingly taken the L

The official Youtube app is legitimately inferior. You use it for enough time, and it somehow slows to a crash.

I refuse to believe that the devs maintaining the app aren't aware of this.

 

[TowinKarz]

$73 a month? I could upgrade my Hulu subscription to include Disney+ and ESPN ad free for $20 a month.

Don't know how long that's going to stay viable, heard a rumor (and it's just a rumor, so, y'know) that the investors / execs are pressuring for ESPN to be spun off of D+ if not outright sold while it's still worth more on the market than the truck rental to haul the set to the landfill..... because woke sports coverage hasn't worked out any better than any other woke programming and there's only 4-5 years left before the channel dies as terminally unprofitable, regional/local sports on TV have the same problem, in a streaming world, few people are willing to pay for cable sports anymore, so the day of the billion-dollar TV deal for exclusive league rights is pretty much over.