YouTube's $35-per-month live TV streaming service expands to 10 new markets

[Jos]

YouTube's $35-per-month live streaming television service is launching in 10 additional markets today. This is YouTube TV's first expansion since launching on April 5 in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco and brings the total of markets covered to 15.

The new markets include: Washington, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Charlotte, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Currently, Dallas-Fort Worth users can only access on-demand prime-time programming from ABC, not the network's live broadcasts, but that could change in the future.

The over-the-top service (OTT) offers access to the four major broadcast networks - ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox - as well as several other popular cable networks including ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports, FS1, FS2, FX, USA, Syfy, among others. In total there are 46 channels, in addition to originals offered through YouTube Red, the $10-per-month ad-eliminating subscription service. There's also the option to add Showtime for $11 extra each month and Fox Soccer Plus for a $15 monthly fee.

YouTube TV offers unlimited cloud DVR storage so you can record all of your shows simultaneously. What's more, a subscription comes with six accounts that you can share with family, roommates or anyone else in the household. Each user gets their own login and personal DVR library.

At $35, YouTube TV is roughly in line with the competition. Hulu's streaming TV service costs $39.95 per month for a package of more than 50 channels. Sling TV starts at just $20 each month for a base package of around 30 channels while DirecTV Now affords 60+ channels for $35 monthly. PlayStation Vue, meanwhile, starts at $29.99 per month for just shy of 50 channels.

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[ZackL04]

Is there a website that breaks down all the channels and the +/-'s of each service?

 

[Reehahs]

How can you call it a market if it is the same country?

 

[MrAgapiGC]

I will try the youtube. the problem is even with VPN hulu is toast. let try it en 2 weeks since I need to fix something on my bank! I do not mind pay for the service since our cabletv SUCK! I mean bad.

 

[p51d007]

This comes to my market, which will be about the time we got 4G LTE, I'm dropping cable.
The over the air stuff doesn't get a couple channels I still watch, so I'm stuck keeping cable.
But, once I get where I can stream the few tv shows I still watch, bye bye cable.
LOL, the 2 shows on network TV I still watch, the series will probably end before we get this.

 

[Uncle Al]

And worse yet cable like the old Charter changed it's name and promised lots of things while striping out the good channels from the basic 100 channel service, substituting them with the HD channel so you ended up with two of the same channel and lost half of your options. They continue to raise the price by $1 a month telling us that's the price of "no contract" service. I'm guessing their senior management hasn't figured out that as old subscribers leave and go elsewhere, they is no "special deal" or option that will lure them back .... we just are not will to do "re-runs "no matter how great the new deal is" ......