YouTube TV Hikes Price to $50 per Month for All Customers After Inking Discovery Deal

[Mook]

I think a few people use YT TV on here.

YouTube TV is the latest OTT television service to hike its fees, which is going up to $50 per month for all customers — a 25% to 43% increase, depending a customer’s existing subscription package.

The new pricing kicks in after YouTube signed a multiyear carriage deal with Discoveryfor YouTube TV, covering linear programming and access to nearly 50,000 on-demand titles. On April 10, YouTube TV will launch eight networks: Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and MotorTrend. OWN will launch on YouTube TV by year end.

Under the new pricing, YouTube TV will cost $49.99 per month, effective April 10 for new customers. That’s up from $35 per month under the original YouTube TV plan launched in 2016, and up from $40 monthly for subs who have signed up in the past year. Existing subscribers will see the new pricing in the billing cycle after May 13. (The price for members billed through Apple will be $54.99 per month.)

In announcing the price increase, YouTube noted that YouTube TV now includes more than 70 channels, including local ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC stations in more than 90% of U.S. markets (and three of those four in other markets). In addition, premium service Epix is now available on YouTube TV for an additional charge.

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[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Hm. Seems expensive.

Youtubfinity is coming next!

 

[Flyn]

Google is doing their best to destroy youtube.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Not a deal

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Google is doing their best to destroy youtube.

Trying to make some money for once before a new player steps in and steals views

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Sounds like an awful deal

 

[Sprayin]

Everything that came out as a streaming option that was trying to be an innovative approach is slowly becoming cable 2.0

 

[Mook]

Hopefully Disney doesn't fuck up Hulu.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Now that they own a bunch of stations, they gonna swing dat dick around

 

[Mook]

That could benefit Hulu tho.

 

[Mook]

Especially since Netflix keeps pumping out original garbage that no one cares about.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I believe there can be a thing as too much content

 

[Mook]

Exactly. And Netflix is 100% guilty of it.

 

[Flyn]

Trying to make some money for once before a new player steps in and steals views

At the same time, Google is shutting down provider pages at a record pace. They're pushing away the very people who made the channel a success.

Don't "bully" (their word and their subjective definition) anyone or your page and your 100,000 subscribers are gone. A lot of the providers are setting up secondary pages to collect subscriptions and prepare for the day when their primary page goes down. Some of the providers are setting up the secondary pages on other sites. Eventually, youtube could become a site of happy dances and instructional videos with nothing "controversial" to be seen.