YouTube TV Price Increase

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Clad in Big Orange said:
Not happy at all about this. This is why I left cable. Didn’t YouTube increase prices a year ago? I guess it’s now going to be an annual price hike. Time to start looking around for an alternative.
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They did. Will be the 4th price increase in their less than 8 year existence

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www.usatoday.com

YouTube TV will raise its monthly subscription price starting next year

YouTube TV announced Thursday that it is raising prices for its base plan subscription starting next year.
www.usatoday.com
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
Not happy at all about this. This is why I left cable. Didn’t YouTube increase prices a year ago? I guess it’s now going to be an annual price hike. Time to start looking around for an alternative.
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YouTube TV has now doubled in price over the last five years. The last price increase was in April 2023 at $72.99 from $64.99 a 12% increase. For reference, it launched at a cost of $34.99 per month in 2017 a total increase calculating at over 137%+ (inflation adjusted.)
 
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YankeeVol said:
YouTube TV has now doubled in price over the last five years. The last price increase was in April 2023 at $72.99 from $64.99 a 12% increase. For reference, it launched at a cost of $34.99 per month in 2017 a total increase calculating at over 137%+ (inflation adjusted.)
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Didn't everyone expect this? Cable TV companies were used to getting a monthly amount from consumers. Let's say $150 per month. After the initial bait and switch to take over the market the streaming companies are naturally going to creep back to taking your $150. This is common business.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Thousand bucks a year for a single streaming service. Straight robbery.
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It's really not bad. With the pay channels I have on YouTubeTV, I pay less than $110 a month. I was paying over $200 with Charter and get more channels on YTV. ONLY Thing is, from April --June, I have to pay another $95 a month to add FUBO, so I can watch the Braves. FUBO charges an extra 15 a month on top of their Monthly fees. But, gotta watch the Braves .
 
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The problem is not the cable companies or the streaming companies.

The cable companies were saddled with old equipment and set top boxes that were getting obsoleted every 3 years so they wanted to go to steaming to lower costs.

All of the streaming companies are saddled with the high cost of the equipment to do live linear streaming which is very expensive compared to Video on Demand think Netflix and Disney+.

So ignore the equipment costs and what is the next biggest driver of costs and what led to cord cutting? The carriage feeds charged by Disney/ESPN, NBC/peacock, and CBS/Paramount. The same drivers of the costs for cable companies is driving the cost of steaming with charges every month. These companies have crappy content for the most part and since they can’t drive demand for their extortion prices they just keep going up on cost instead of increasing demand.
 
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Plecoptera said:
The price increase sucks, but my monthly internet and YouTube TV bills are still considerably less than what I was paying when I had cable.
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Plecoptera said:
The price increase sucks, but my monthly internet and YouTube TV bills are still considerably less than what I was paying when I had cable.
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Sometimes, honestly I question how much money I am actually saving with jumping through all these hoops.

As soon as I cancelled my cable subscription, they jacked up my internet costs by $30. Now the streaming costs are basically the same as what cable was last summer when I cancelled

Seriously considering just getting rid of it all except for football season. Keep a lowest tier. Netflix subscription and maybe one more and call it a day.
 
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stolitonic said:
Sometimes, honestly I question how much money I am actually saving with jumping through all these hoops.

As soon as I cancelled my cable subscription, they jacked up my internet costs by $30. Now the streaming costs are basically the same as what cable was last summer when I cancelled

Seriously considering just getting rid of it all except for football season. Keep a lowest tier. Netflix subscription and maybe one more and call it a day
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The equipment costs and associated fees were one of the things that really drove up the cost of my cable plus internet bundle. I switched to YouTube TV and AT&T fiber internet when I moved a few years ago. My internet is actually less expensive now and is many times faster. Even with the YouTube TV price increase, I still save nearly $100 from cable. I understand your point about whether you actually save if you have multiple different subscriptons. You might not be saving much, if any. However, Netfix, Max, Peacock, etc. do give on demand content that really wasn't as readily available on traditional cable. For me, one major benefit is being able to log in to my Youtube TV account when I go to visit my family since my mom dropped Dish Network last year.

I do refuse to have any additional services besides YouTube TV and Amazon Prime. Those two services cover all of my needs.
 
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Lol at people claiming robbery. Its not. You are paying it. And if you did not they would be out of business. Its called capitalism
 
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I look for Disney to spin ESPN off at some point and I'd not be surprised to see Amazon grab it.

Using the Prime Video base (which sucks) and launching a Prime+ tier for sports with ESPN, they can drive people toward Amazon and away from shopping competition.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
I look for Disney to spin ESPN off at some point and I'd not be surprised to see Amazon grab it.

Using the Prime Video base (which sucks) and launching a Prime+ tier for sports with ESPN, they can drive people toward Amazon and away from shopping competition.
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Right now Disney can’t afford to because they have too many people paying for the ESPN package or the bundle just to get ESPN+ or SECN+ or ACCN+.

Without the sports properties Disney will lose too much revenue.

They considered it when the cord cutting started but now the sports is propping their streaming up since Disney proper went woke.

The question is with Disney getting out bid for the professional sports do they up their ante or walk away from all Live Linear properties including the Brodcast over the air properties. They might bundle all their Live streaming and over the air into one division. If they do that look for them to sell and the buyer will have to pay them for the good and the bad.

Time will tell.

Food for thought: Over the air is actually coming back into vogue as the younger generation is buying digital antennas and for going any pay channels except 1 or 2 video on demand but not paying for live tv.
 
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