YouTube TV rate increase
 

The new rate will increase to 82.99 in January. $10/month increase. Cancelled. Probably back to Sling.

Jus got my notice as well.

Merry Christmas.

Bummer, but not unexpected. Still a great deal relative to cable TV. As more and more people cut the cord, the burden of paying the content producers will continue to shift from cable subscribers to streamers.

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure it's on its way. I'm inclined to drop it, but wife likes it and it is the best one from my experience. Maybe I just weed out some streaming services

Don't like it either, but everything goes up these days. $10 is not going to kill me, and YouTube TV has the best cloud DVR and streaming service around.

We had Hulu live + about 82.95 + tax & fees about $92. We canceled went to YouTube. Now they're the same price. Guess back to Hulu live + until they raise their price.again. They are great for sports lovers they have ESPN +, I can watch my hockey team.
I also like that I can delete a program I recorded.

I believe the Hulu price also includes Disney+ which has some good shows.

NFL Sunday Ticket required YouTube TV last year. That might have changed this year but we just kept the entire package. Might look into HuluLive w/Disney and a standalone Sunday Ticket next year.

I think you could buy the NFL Sunday ticket and watch it through the free version of YouTube and didn't need to pay for YouTubeTV.

Hubby wants golf channel and weather channel. Other than that, he mostly watches network news and sitcom reruns and streams old movies on channels that have ads. He can get everything besides golf and weather with Roku TV, which is free. So we're paying $90/month just so he can see golf channel and weather channel.

I watch Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, so I don't care what's on the TV in the other room. Gonna check Sling and see what they've got for less.

Beings Google owns Utube now I’m surprised they’re not charge to even get on Utube on web. Probably coming in near future?

Well, they bought YT in 2006 and it hasn’t happened yet. I’m sure they are raking in the bucks from advertising.

Probably should have looked into it a little before making that comment.

Alphabet is the parent company. Google is a subsidiary. YouTube is also a subsidiary, as are Waze, Fitbit, and Nest.

I just noticed that SlingTV streams most shows in standard definition, and you have to pay $20/month more for HD. That would bring the cost up to what I'm already paying for YouTubeTV, if I want to keep the Weather and Golf Channels (using the Blue plan with sports-plus and Frndly services).

Or I can pay the same as the above, for Hulu+Live, which comes with HD streaming AND it comes with Hulu, which we don't have and I'd love to watch from time to time but don't want to pay extra for it.

AND SO - I'll recommend to hubby that we get the Hulu+Live.

Good to know. Sling is raising their rates on 12/20/24 by $6 for the Blue and Orange plans. I didn’t check on the combined package.

Why would you switch to an inferior platform? YouTube TV is still the best deal out there even if they raised the price 20.00 a month.

HuluLive at the same price but with Disney+, ESPN+, and 4K (where available) is very competitive.

I don’t watch enough to warrant the new price. Sling has everything I need for now. I mostly watch Paramount+ and YouTube Premium.

We're still on DirecTV sat. Been on it since 1997. I know I pay more but I like the convenience. May go to streaming at some point but we're happy for now.

Expect streaming rates to continue to rise. Many of the companies are struggling to make a profit due to the cost of programming. The days of cheap streaming are slowly going away.

$10 isn’t a big deal. But $120? That’s a big deal.

I quit Hulu when they had their “only $10 a month” increase. Well, their price increase and being Disney owned.
YouTube will be getting my same cancel notice.

I have some friends that have Omni vision. Every channel imaginable for only $400 a year. Seems too good to be true. Not much info when you Google them.

There is a reason for both of those. Check this discussion from Apollo TV on whether this type of service is legal.

You can also look back at this Omnivision thread from July that you created. You felt they were too good to be true then also.

I love YTTV but am thinking of canceling. I have Peacock, Hulu and Paramount plus... so I can watch all the network shows on them. I'm really just paying to watch live TV, and that's mostly Orlando news at 6pm and ABC news at 6:30 and Jeopardy. Might be time to get an antenna and Tablo to record local shows.

Me too. I’ll try the free intro others like Tubi and Sling, before deciding. Go woke go broke, U-Tube.

It is cheaper to watch YouTube for free with an ad blocker.

This happened with Hulu Live recently too. For commercial free we’re at $95.99, so YouTube TV is actually the better deal if this price is for commercial free.

Tired of no History channel. Now this. I’m out.

Everyone’s situation is unique to them but I chuckle to see some people squawk at paying $80-$100 a month for their TV programming but they don’t hesitate to pay someone $60-$80 a month to mow their little patch of lawn that they could do themselves in a few minutes or pay $150-$300 a month for pool service which they could do themselves in a few hours per week or pay $150+ month to someone to spray for bugs a couple times per year which they could easily do themselves in a few minutes per month. I guess everyone has their own priorities but it’ seems to be an easy numbers game and personally my own maintenance is superior to any I’ve seen done at my neighbors.

I am paying 56.99 per month including tax for youtube tv right now. What did you pay for sling tv?

This is why we have Hulu Live still. Hubby can watch his hockey team, though rarely the whole game since his team (LA Kings) plays home games very late here due to the time difference. He watches for as long as he can stay awake.

I believe this is apples and oranges.

YouTubeTV carries live broadcasts which include commercials. There is no way to skip the commercials since they are part of the broadcast itself. You should be able to skip them if you DVR the show and watch it later, just as you would with an old fashioned VHS.

HuluLive carries live broadcasts but also has a library of old shows and Hulu exclusives. These non-broadcast shows are available with commercials for about the same price as YouTubeTV or commercial-free at $95.

YouTubeTV can also show videos from YouTube. To get those commercial free you would need to purchase YouTube Premium (I don't know the price).

HuluLive includes DIsney+ and ESPN+, both with commercials, in the $82 price. You can pay extra to get those without commercials as well. I don't know if the $95 price is commercial free for all or if that's just the Hulu content and other charges apply for the Disney+ and ESPN+ content.

We are switching from Spectrum TV/Internet to YouTube TV the end of the month because the bill went from $186 to $224. We will keep internet service only. Even at the new price for YouTube TV it will still be a lot cheaper.

So, I just got off the phone with YouTubeTV customer service. Wanted to find out if I cancelled today, would it shut off today, or would it stay on until the end of the billing cycle.

The guy incentivized me to keep my service at the same price I'm paying now, for the next 6 months. No contract. So at the end of 6 months, I can still cancel and switch to Hulu if I want. It's a great idea, because often when one goes up, all the others do too. Right now Hulu is the same price that YouTubeTV WILL be effective the next billing cycle.

If you really prefer YouTubeTV, but the price increase is a deal breaker, give them a call. Be polite. Ask them a question /about/ cancelling, and see if they offer you the promo as well. If they do, you get to keep what you like for at least another 6 months. If not, they'll help you cancel (effective your next billing cycle). Wait time on the phone was less than a minute.

As I mentioned many times, YouTube like other providers whom provide TV content always have franchise fees to pay to the content providers. If you read the fine print in their price increase announcement they specifically say one of the reasons why the price had to to be increased is because of the rising cost of content. Cable prividers have the same issues. Just the way it is.

...and yet, they had no problem letting me keep my current prices for another 6 months. I just had to call them and say I was planning on cancelling and wanted some logistics information before doing so.

YouTubeTV's ad revenue increased by almost 2Billion this year, from 5.7B to 7.5B. Their operating costs are only around $200 million. "Just the way it is" is correct. But the thing that's just the way it is, isn't the thing you think it is.

How are you only paying 56.99 for You tube TV?

Going up just like everything else. If I keep it I will just get rid of something else to make up the difference. I had fubo before and didn’t like it much. Plus YouTube TV has Sunday ticket but this will be my last year with it since the nfl has started with putting games on other platforms. I’m it willing to pay for all of those. Soon games will no longer be on cbs and fox and or the Super Bowl will be played on some streaming platform.

It stinks but YoutubeTV (+NFL Sunday Ticket) is the best option out there - a fraction of what we were paying with XFinity.

I look at streaming services every year and a couple years ago, dropped Dish and went to YT tv. YT tv didn’t have all the channels that we liked so we ended up with YT tv, paramount+, Netflix, shudder, Apple TV+, and a couple others I can’t think of. So if I wanted to watch a specific series, I would have to get out of YT tv and then remember which service had this series. We were bouncing around all over the place. After a year, I negotiated with Dish and they matched the price of what I was paying for all the services and it’s a set price for 3 years plus I got a $500 gift card so the overall price is cheaper.
I didn’t care what I was paying a month, it was just a hassle of switching services to watch something. Plus, if I wanted to bounce around for example, watching Fox business to a specific sporting event, I hit the recall button. Since we have used Dsh for decades, we remember the channel numbers so it’s easy and fast to get around.
Maybe in a couple years YT tv will have the majority of what we like to watch and I can switch.

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