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Everything We Know About YouTube TV’s New Cheaper TV Packages

YouTube TV has announced plans to roll out a series of new, lower-cost streaming packages early this year. These new, cheaper YouTube TV Plans represent a significant shift from the service’s traditional all-in-one base package, allowing users to select content tailored to specific interests without paying for unwanted channels. The initiative comes as live TV streaming services continue to evolve, responding to consumer demands for affordability and customization amid rising costs in the industry.

The core of this update involves more than 10 genre-specific packages, each designed to focus on particular categories of programming. This approach enables viewers to opt for slimmer bundles that could substantially reduce monthly expenses compared to the current base plan, which stands at $82.99 per month and includes over 100 channels. While exact pricing for the new packages has not been disclosed, the emphasis is on making them more economical, potentially appealing to cord-cutters who have been deterred by the escalating fees of comprehensive streaming services.


One of the most highlighted packages is the YouTube TV Sports Plan, which is expected to cater specifically to sports enthusiasts. This bundle will include access to major broadcast networks alongside dedicated sports channels such as Fox Sports 1 and NBC Sports Network. It will also encompass the full suite of ESPN networks, including ESPN Unlimited, ensuring comprehensive coverage of live events, analysis, and highlights. Subscribers to this plan can further enhance their experience with add-ons like NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone, which provide out-of-market games and focused football content. Importantly, the Sports Plan retains popular features from the main service, such as unlimited DVR storage for recording games and shows, multiview for watching multiple events simultaneously, key play recaps for quick catch-ups, and fantasy sports integration to track player stats in real time.

I wonder how much they can reduce the price for that.  My understanding is that the ESPN family of networks constitutes the majority of the total bill that providers pass on to us. 

It sounds like a step closer to an a la carte service, which some here opined several years ago would never happen. 

I'll believe it when I see it.  And by that I mean, significant cost reduction when cutting out portions of the offering.

I signed up, again, for baseball next year.  I saved all that money not doing a river cruise .... so ...

I'll believe it when I see it.  And by that I mean, significant cost reduction when cutting out portions of the offering.

well, if folks can cut out live sports (ESPN) there SHOULD be significant cost reduction

well, if folks can cut out live sports (ESPN) there SHOULD be significant cost reduction

Sure.  But it's historically been so expensive that providers wouldn't unbundle it.  Rather, all of the non-sports-watchers have subsidized it.  If they had allowed unbundling for non-sports-watchers, then the price would actually go up for those who wanted ESPN.

So I'm curious-- and skeptical-- about how they're proposing to get around this.

hay, if I can get all my sports and only save $10/month, I'm for it.
I don't watch the other crap

$82.99 is high IMO

What I'm saying is that historically, if they unbundled and stopped forcing all the non-sports-watchers to subsidize ESPN, you'd actually end up paying MORE than 82.99 per month.

The only way to unbundle it and your price for sports to actually decrease, would be for ESPN to take a massive pay cut. And maybe they will, but it's really not in Disney's nature to decrease prices over time.