YouTube TV is Coming to 10 More Markets

YouTube TV is Coming to 10 More Markets

Google announced today that YouTube TV is coming to 10 more markets in the United States in the next few weeks.

“We are really excited about YouTube TV and pleased that it will be expanding to ten more markets in just a couple of weeks.” Google CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki writes. “YouTube TV was built for the YouTube generation that loves live TV but wants it delivered in a way that suits their mobile and flexible lifestyles.”

The 10 new markets are Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Houston, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.. The service is already available in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

YouTube TV is a paid streaming service that offers live TV from broadcast networks, cable networks, and premium networks, a cloud-based DVR with unlimited storage, broad device and screen compatibility via Android, iOS, Chromecast, and the web. It launched earlier this year and costs $35 per month, plus you can add a few additional premium networks at additional cost.

YouTube TV is one of the “cord cutting” services I’m considering for the new house: It’s available in Emmaus, which is apparently close enough to Philadelphia to count, and I like that it will work with up to six accounts and on all the devices and TVs we use. I’m eager to give it a shot.

 

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  • bpech

    Premium Member
    21 July, 2017 - 4:02 pm

    <p>I think the unlimited DVR capability is key…record everything you're interested in (if it's available) and watch on your schedule.</p><p><br></p><p>Cool!</p>

  • SvenJ

    Premium Member
    21 July, 2017 - 4:22 pm

    <p>Just how does this '<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">paid streaming service' get to my house? Ah yes, over the Comcast (or whatever) internet connection, which has a cap. So what cord did I actually cut? And who controls the price of the tube over which I am downloading the competition's content? </span></p>

    • NazmusLabs

      21 July, 2017 - 4:26 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151511"><em>In reply to SvenJ:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>You misunderstood cord cutting. Cord cutting means using ISPs and cable companies as dumb internet pipes and selectively choosing your entertainment options yourself, without being forced to buy into expensive packages containing hundreds of channels you don't want to watch just to be able to offer watch a particular show in Las, say in the Show Time channel or to watch one of your favorite sports.</p><p><br></p><p>As for the controlling the pricing of competitors, that's what net neutrality is for. Thanks to the FCC and and Obama, it's illegal for any ISP like evil Comcast to control pricing on bandwidth of internet content. That's why the internet and big companies are fighting the Trump administration from reversing the law. Comcast and others have bribed Trump and the congress so they can reverse the net neutrality rules. Let's hope it fails like the Healthcare bill has!</p>

      • SvenJ

        Premium Member
        21 July, 2017 - 5:03 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#151514"><em>In reply to NazmusLabs:</em></a> No, I don't misunderstand the concept. I am fascinated by the concept of 'cutting the cord' and then subscribing to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime (to get their offerings), and a slew of other services to get back to the same level of content you had with Comcast, or whoever. I did cut the cord, but I have resorted to OTA TV for most of my entertainment. I did it to save money, not to stick it to Comcast. They still get my money anyway.</blockquote><p><br></p>

      • skane2600

        21 July, 2017 - 6:42 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#151514"><em>In reply to NazmusLabs:</em></a></blockquote><p>Yes, "cord cutting" is poorly named. But net neutrality does nothing to reduce the cost or near monopoly of ISPs. It's useful because it prevents ISPs from charging different fees to different content providers but ISPs are free, as they always have been, to charge whatever they want for consumer access to the Internet.</p>

  • dcdevito

    21 July, 2017 - 8:33 pm

    <p>I've been using YouTube TV for months now and I absolutely love it. It's cheap, I share it 4 other people legally, it has the Yes network for Yankee games (among many sports channels) and lots of great content. It's a steal for the price. </p>

    • Waethorn

      21 July, 2017 - 9:54 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151564"><em>In reply to dcdevito:</em></a></blockquote><p>Absolutively.</p>

    • RonH

      Premium Member
      22 July, 2017 - 12:07 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151564"><em>In reply to dcdevito:</em></a></blockquote><p>I heard somewhere on a podcast that you can't skip any ads, even with the PVR, Is that true?</p>

      • dcdevito

        23 July, 2017 - 8:58 am

        <blockquote><a href="#151652"><em>In reply to RonH:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Some you can but not all. Not sure what delineates the difference but some recorded content I can skip while others I cannot. My guess is time, longer the recording sits in your library the better the chance. Just a SWAG on my part. </p>

  • Waethorn

    21 July, 2017 - 9:54 pm

    <p>How is yet another streaming service any different than paying for cable channel packages again?</p>

    • MikeGalos

      22 July, 2017 - 3:30 am

      <blockquote><a href="#151566"><em>In reply to Waethorn:</em></a></blockquote><p>Because Google gets to track everything you watch or DVR rather than Comcast and A. C. Nielson.</p><p><br></p><p>Actually, it gives you an advantage if you have multiple homes or if you watch all your TV in a dorm or a Starbucks. Aside from that it really is paying the same people for the same intellectual property.</p>

      • Waethorn

        22 July, 2017 - 12:42 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#151590"><em>In reply to MikeGalos:</em></a></blockquote><p>I was referring to cost and the resultant level of service.</p>

  • Martin Couture

    22 July, 2017 - 6:51 am

    <p>Hey oohhhh! Canada! We're up here!</p>

    • Waethorn

      22 July, 2017 - 12:42 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151593"><em>In reply to mcduo:</em></a></blockquote><p>Because to Americans, North is "up".</p>

  • Bats

    22 July, 2017 - 6:41 pm

    <p>When it comes to the basic necessities of tv watching and the most popular networks, Youtube TV is the best. The service consist of ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and The CW, therefore it won't be necessary to buy any OTA antennae. As for everything else, it has pretty much everything, except CNN and it's family of networks. Then again, no one watches them as evidenced by the low ratings and their continuous FAKE NEWS coverage. </p><p><br></p><p>The only problem with Youtube TV is that Google is smart, when it comes to accessing their service via VPN. When I subscribed to DirecTV Now, I was able to VPN the service from 3 Asian countries with no problem at all.</p>

  • RonV42

    Premium Member
    23 July, 2017 - 8:55 am

    <p>Until they get Xbox and Roku support this is a non starter for me. </p>

    • itmaster68

      24 July, 2017 - 1:02 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151884"><em>In reply to RonV42:</em></a></blockquote><p>I need TiVo or XBOX One Supported app as well…</p>

  • spacein_vader

    Premium Member
    23 July, 2017 - 10:31 am

    <p>As a Brit, this just shows just how odd the American Internet &amp; TV markets are. In every other country I've visited the whole country is one market from a TV standpoint, multiple ISPs are available at all but the most rural addresses and download caps only exist on mobile Internet. The crucial point is that rarely are your ISP and content providers linked, so you can get unlimited broadband for £25ish a month &amp; then only pay content providers once for the likes of Netflix or YouTube. </p><p><br></p><p>Normally I wouldn't care, but as most big Internet firms are US based they're very slow to expand to and learn from foreign markets. In the UK virtually every home has an aerial and most also have a satellite dish. Cable is a distant 3rd. </p><p><br></p><p>It always Amazes me how the most capitalistic and pro free market economy on the world had virtual monopolies in these areas. Especially government mandated ones. </p>

    • KingPCGeek

      Premium Member
      24 July, 2017 - 3:52 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#151912"><em>In reply to spacein_vader:</em></a></blockquote><blockquote>You are amazed at our government mandated monopolies yet you have to pay £147 a year per TV or to use iPlayer to support the BBC? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? </blockquote><p><br></p>

  • rgelb

    23 July, 2017 - 10:54 pm

    <p>I tried it, but no thank you. It's non-stop commercials everywhere. Having cut the cord a while ago and just used Netflix/Amazon Prime – i simply want to watch my TV without constant interruptions. </p><p><br></p><p>If YouTube TV came with a tier that let you avoid commercials, I'd give it a shot. But not as it stands.</p>

  • rgelb

    23 July, 2017 - 10:55 pm

    <p>In addition to what I've said before…how do you go to market without an XBOX app?</p>

  • Ekim

    Premium Member
    24 July, 2017 - 2:40 am

    <p>No love for the Seattle area? </p>

  • fishnet37222

    Premium Member
    24 July, 2017 - 7:49 am

    <p>The only use I'd ever have for live TV is sports and until the MSG sports networks are carried by any of these services, they're of no use to me.</p>

  • pdrodliz

    24 July, 2017 - 2:27 pm

    <p>In Puerto Rico Liberty Cable Provides me with all local channels and all the national networks (a Total of 100+ channels) and Telephone and 60 Mbs internet for $128.01 monthly including taxes. Is this triple pack comparable to Comcast or Time Wagner?</p>

  • Tony Barrett

    25 July, 2017 - 5:55 am

    <p>I'm still waiting for Youtube Red in the UK. US customers got this ad-free premium version of Youtube 'free' when subscribing to Play Music. It was meant to extend out of the US at some point, but I'm still waiting….</p>

  • peterh_oz

    Premium Member
    25 July, 2017 - 10:46 am

    <p>I've spent the last month with Fubo.tv, has all the features of youtube (dvr etc). Haven't compared the channels. I used it to stream NBC's Tour de France in Australia (with DNS redirect from getflix.com) as they had proper commentary whereas most countries took the ASO coverage which was shite. I notice Fubo has a lot of US sport channels plus some entertainment ones. No local channels, but that's what a rooftop antenna is for. Could be worth a comparison with youtube tv. Google is powerful enough!</p>

  • darkgrayknight

    Premium Member
    25 July, 2017 - 11:45 am

    <p>Hulu now has Live TV, so I'm looking into that, as YouTube TV won't be available anywhere near me probably for a long time and I'd rather it be available on the Xbox One.</p>

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