Google raises price of YouTube TV to $49.99, adds Discovery, Animal Planet

[Auggie]

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday raised the monthly membership price of its YouTube TV online service by 25 percent to $49.99, while adding channels such as Discovery, Animal Planet and TLC.

The second price rise in nearly 14 months comes as YouTube expands its offering to better compete with a growing number of services, including Dish Network Corp’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now and Hulu, which are vying to attract viewers cancelling cable subscriptions, or cord cutting.

Google had raised the price of YouTube TV from $35 to $40 in February last year.

The cost for competing services such as Hulu’s offering with more than 60 channels is $44.99 per month, while its library of shows and movies costs an additional $5.99.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-youtubetv/google-raises-price-of-youtube-tv-to-49-99-adds-discovery-animal-planet-idUSKCN1RM2DP

Google raises their streaming price by charging me for shit I don't want, exactly the same problem with traditional cable.

These fuckers never learn.

FORGET IT -- I'M CANCELLING.

[exboyfil]

1. Look at Sling

I get it during Walking Dead season. It complements well our Basic Cable package (we are out of the range of anything but a roof mounted antenna for several stations).

In the Fall I like having ESPN for the football games. In the Spring it is not as valuable. I would stop doing it if Walking Dead wasn't a tradition with my daughter.

[Auggie]

2. Thanks

[sarcasmo]

6. Sling always buffered through my ROKU, canceled after a week

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. I'm being gouged by DirectTV.....now controlled by AT&T which is awful!

There is nowhere to turn for traditional cable TV without bending over drydock.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. YouTube is now 70% Russian content and MRA-infected submissions. All good shit is taken down.

[WillowTree]

5. I switched to Hulu with live TV in January and never looked back.

Seamless. Haven't missed Dish for one minute.

[madinmaryland]

7. We've had sling for at least three years. It was a bit glitchy at first, but its

Really smooth now. They’ve added a lot of channels in the last couple of years, but the price has remained relatively steady. No fox noise or the religious channels.

[Auggie]

8. Thanks Mad. What are live sports like?

[madinmaryland]

9. ESPN, espn2, FS1, FS2, Fox Cincinnati, TNT, TBS.

My wife has the CBS all access app, so I can sit outside and watch cbs sports.

[Auggie]

12. I'll give it a look-see ...

gotta be able to see the Giants (even though they suck).

[madinmaryland]

14. Based on where you live you will get the local sports channel.

Though according to cboy’s sports fandom rules, with me being a Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Celtics, and Ohio State fan, it completely fucks up getting the local sports channel. 😁

[Auggie]

15. That might ink the deal

Being out of market you can catch the Pirates on MLB. Cowboys are national. Two out of four. And OSU has to be covered where you live.

[hunter]

10. My wife and I haven't ventured beyond Netflix.

One child set us up with that.

The television in our house plays DVDs and Netflix, in glorious 480p.

That's all our television does. No "traditional" television at all, no broadcast, cable, or satellite, maybe 'cause I'm cheap.

My wife was never into television at all. Her vice is books. We have thousands of books, rivaling some small town public libraries.

Come the end of the world I've got reading glasses stashed everywhere.

[Auggie]

13. Thanks ...

I must watch my sports though.

[hunter]

17. Our kids are various sports fiends, and one of my nieces is in the trade and off to graduate school.

Myself, I never studied statistics beyond what it took to pass my courses in evolutionary biology or to feel comfortable in quality control work.

My wife has taught statistics -- sports, medicine, science, and otherwise.

I don't really know how the younger generations in our family get their their television sports feeds.

One of our kids and spouse are 100% Chromecast, that's all their television does. They watch all their television 'casting from their cell phones.

I know they have NBA League Pass.

https://www.nba.com/leaguepass

[SMC22307]

19. Sounds like my house but not quite as many books.

Couple of TVs, digital antennas, public television, and Netflix streaming and DVDs... about $30/month. I still have a fully functional Sylvania VCR from 1985 which I'm keeping til it dies... folks who visit get a kick out of it.

[hunter]

22. We have one of the earlier 1080p flat screen televisions...

... no wifi, no ethernet, no way to hook it up to the internet.

We also have a high end four head digital sound VCR I bought in a thrift store for $10.

Between the two machines old video cassettes look and sound better than they ever did on our old CRT television.

But we don't have many video cassettes left that I haven't replaced with thrift store DVDs.

But yeah, we're still keeping the VCR, if only to play the original Hans Solo shot first Star Wars editions.

On the other hand, our kids don't even have CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray players. They live in big cities and have fast fiber optic internet connections which they use for everything.

They do collect books, however.

[irisblue]

23. I saw that Twilight Zone as a young girl

Just after I got my first pair of glasses.
Freaked me the fuck out. Soon as I got old enough to pay for my own glasses, I always got 2 pair & kept 1 of the old ones, just in case, in the sock drawer in my bedroom.

[UTUSN]

11. So google/Dish/ATT own the things we think are *alternatives*?!1

I ended with a hybrid action to cutting (instead of) cable entirely:

1- Downgrading Dish to lowest $30 possible - MSBNC, Locals - NO Fox!!!!!!1.

2- ROKU stick.

3- Using regular/free YouTube a *lot* more, and "casting to" the Smart t.v.

All much more variety and options than I've ever needed or wanted before. Plus, what's the purpose of cutting cable only to pay scads of other outlets at $30 each hit?!1

[shanti]

16. I've got DirectvNow

but got in on the ground floor, so the price is grandfathered in. Free AppleTV with the deal too. What keeps me though is the $5 HBO - have to see the last season of GOT!

[Bluesaph]

18. What is DT Now?

And how much is it? All I want is my MSNBC, my on demand and HBO for GOT. Would you recommend switching to DTVNow? How many devices can use it?

Also, anyone can tell me the same if I went with HULU? Can I watch MSNBC on Hulu?

[Initech]

20. There is way too much TV right now.

It's impossible to keep up! Who has time to watch all this shit?

[Oneironaut]

21. I feel a crash coming.

The number of streaming services is growing, which will split content people want to watch between 12 or so streaming services. Nobody is going to pay 12 streaming services $30 per month each for content. This is an extreme example, but it could get that bad if these services have forced exclusive content.

As a result, all of the streaming services suffer. If the US economy starts to slow, these services will be the first things people dump.