YouTube TV goes up in price yet drops sports channels

It's going to get worse as more people cut the cord. Networks and cable companies will try to make up for the smaller audiences by raising prices, which of course will cause cord cutting to accelerate...

No one wanted Comedy Central, paramount, nfl network?

No one wanted mtv and the other bullshite that came along with it

Yeah, they were really dumb for that last price hike. I just put mine on pause yesterday. I was happy about being able to watch Yellowstone, but don't really care about anything else that came with the viacom deal

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these streaming services are dumb to get their prices up near cable.

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They're not dumb, they just have to make a profit. The content and channel owners have everyone by the balls with all the channel bundling and bidding wars.


I called this a few years back when there were fewer players in streaming (Sling was the biggest name at the time, before YTTV, Hulu live, Vue, etc got big). It's kind of a perverse market where more competition creates higher prices. If there is just one streaming provider, then they will get 100% of streaming customers and the content/channel owners just have to get whatever price they can get. The provider either pays or they don't. Then the more streaming services there are, that's just more players to bid the prices up. The content/channel owners have all the leverage, and every time a contract runs out for a provider they have to pay whatever the new going rate is or they don't get the channels. And if they don't get the channels people want, they die.

And in the meantime there's always consolidation happening among content/channel owners, so the bundles just get bigger and more expensive.



So the price hikes were inevitable during this "phase 1" of cord-cutting, where the TV services were decoupled from the delivery medium. And that's good and necessary, but hopefully phase 2 will begin soon, and the demands to bust the bundles get louder and we get true a la carte TV soon. Consumers won't really benefit until that happens. Channels and content need to live and die on their own merit and quality instead of piggybacking in a bundle with a bunch of other crap.

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may as well just get the basic cable package

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I went back to Comcast. Much cheaper and better quality.

I get 1 gig internet plus over 200 channels (all of the channels on yttv) for $105 month.

Is there a 2 year contract and the price increases after year 1?

I don’t care for fox regional channels... I did want paramount for Yellowstone, nick and nick jr for kids

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The dumb part is adding all the extra channels.

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I think it's just a volume business where the only way to handle the costs is to keep growing the subscriber base which these companies believe means adding more channels to broaden the appeal. FuboTV started out as a $30 a month sports only streamer, now it's a $65 a month normal streamer, they don't even have the $30 sports only option anymore.