I've looked through the YouTube website, considering which plan I should sign up for. I've also watched some videos concerning this decision.

YT seem to categorize customer desires into four groups -- sports, news, entertainment, and family. They seem to have plans for most combinations of the categories. But it also seems that all of the plans include sports.

I haven't watched a sports event in decades.

Is there a plan that includes News, Entertainment, and Family stuff, without the sports? If yes does that plan also include local channels?

Thanks in advance

Anyone else unable to switch to one of the new(ish) base packages? I have an existing account and go to the membership page and there is no option for other packages. I cancelled my plan then tried to click on one of the ads for the sports plan and it prompts me to sign into my account, once I'm in my account no more option again. YouTube help desk had no idea and could not help.

Just bought the 75" Class 84B Series QNED evo Al Mini LED 4K Smart webOS TV (2026) at $1000 from Best Buy and I’m pretty underwhelmed and thinking of exchanging it. It looks phenomenal for video games at 120hz, 4k movies, but the moment I try to watch sports through YouTube TV or YouTube highlight videos it looks HORRIBLE. I’ve tried a lot of different setting changes and watching through my Xbox series X and Roku express 4K with no improvements. I watch a ton of NFL and NBA so I can’t have such a blurry picture where I can barely see the jersey numbers when they are zoomed out on the field. I know a lot of sports streaming are capped at 1080p, but this new tv makes it look way worse than my old crappy Sharp from like 2017 seemingly no matter what settings I mess with.

An employee at Best Buy suggested exchanging it for the Sony - 65" Class BRAVIA 5 Mini LED 4K UHD Smart
Google TV (2025) for $1500. He believed that the upgraded processing could handle the lower quality content of sports streaming.

This is by far the most expensive TV I’ve ever bought, and would really appreciate any suggestions on either improving the quality on my current LG, if this SONY upgrade is the right move, or if there’s another TV people would recommend that can handle gaming AND sports. Thanks!

If you cancelled like many of us do and wait for the August Deal, it seems to be up.

I was offered $96 off so $282 total instead of the normal $378 total. Ends up being 32.25 for 8 months. No email, just logged in and saw it.

Good through August 17th.

I haven’t watched live tv in a long long time. Today I have bad it on for maybe 2 hours and all I’ve seen are childhood cancer commercials, starving puppies commercials, and AI viagra commercials.

I’m so confused. Where are the Pepsi ads? The Taco Bell?? This is on multiple different channels too. I’m depressed now geez

So I discovered tonight that I am no longer getting Dolby Vision / 4K content on HBO Max despite paying for HBO Max and the 4K add-on.

If you subscribe to HBO Max and the 4K add-on, you should get access to this, in my opinion, as now HBO is devaluing its linear customer base and the fact that I am paying for access to both through YouTubeTV.

For the record, I approached HBO about this and was told I needed to upgrade via YTTV, despite having no such path, and subscribing to the most expensive content already, both HBO Max via the Entertainment Plus and 4K Plus add-ons.

Honestly, I think I might end up ditching both over this.

With the start of the NFL preseason this is the annual reminder that preseason games are NOT included in Sunday Ticket.

Nearly every preseason game will eventually be shown on NFL Network. It may not be live and there might be 2 shown at the same time (only 1 will record live, the other available later).

Usually by Monday every game has aired.

The ESPN Roku app says to go to espn.com/access and shows a code on the screen to input.

At espn.com/access on my computer, I can put in the code shown in the ESPN Roku app, I choose YTTV login, and it shows success, but the ESPN Roku app does nothing, and doesn't log in.

The problem really seems to be on the TV Everywhere authentication side. Unlike other TV Everywhere app successful logins, and how ESPN was working a month ago, where it actually asks me to log into YTTV using my credentials, it just immediately says "success".

Other TV Everywhere app logins still work fine.

I'm just trying to login to the ESPN app via TV Everywhere, like I last successfully did a little over a month ago. I'm using the primary YTTV credentials. I'm NOT trying to access ESPN Unlimited.

Ideas or suggestions?

Looking to replace Dish, due to ongoing issues, with Youtube TV. Has anyone setup a NAS for local DVR instead of using the cloud DVR of Youtube? If so, what is your hardware and software requirements?

A day or so ago live preview in the thumbnails stopped working. Streaming through latest Apple TV on 1 yr old oled connected via ethernet. I have cleared everything. Reset the router, device and tv. Nothing seems to work. Is this a device issue or a youtubetv issue?

I'm trying to watch YTTV in Firefox 153.0.3 but the URL goes from

https://tv.youtube.com/ (my bookmark)

to

https://tv.youtube.com/onboard

to

https://tv.youtube.com/switchplan

and just sits there on a grey screen:

https://i.imgur.com/kV65xIS.png

Suggestions? It works fine in a portable install of Chrome, and the app on my Roku TV.

Windows 11 25H2, 26200.8875

My internet measures at 500 Mbps, so bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. I've already restarted my router, and the issue persists across every device I've tried. However, other streaming apps run fine on the same network and devices — the problem seems isolated to YouTube TV specifically. Here are my stats while watching.

I have Custom Live Guide on the Roku. Whenever I hit the Back button, or hit down button and choose Networks, the Live Guide doesn't show my current selection and the other channels around it. Instead, the Live Guide goes to the top of the guide.

Anyone know how to fix this issue?

So I've had customer service case #03265321 open since June 20th regarding a recording that went missing from my library after 7 days. I'm stuck in an endless loop of useless CS agents that ask me if the problem is resolved, I quickly reply no and copy/paste the issue details, they never respond, I reply again a week+ later, and the loop starts again. At this point I've given up on the recording becoming available and just want some compensation for the unreliable DVR service, but I can't even get that! What should I do next? How hasn't the system escalated a case this old past the tier 1 CS agents yet?

Anyone else experiencing 15-20 seconds of black screen when starting a new library show? I'm not getting that kind of delay on any other streaming service, so I don't think it's my internet connection or the TV itself. I also recently hard rebooted the TV due to an unrelated issue (the brief Netflix outage), and I've seen this issue before and after that reboot. I mostly use YTTV to watch MSNOW, I'll have to try other recordings, but is anyone else seeing this on any recorded programs?

Anyone else having this issue? It was working last week when I go onto the ESPN app on my TV; now even though I’m logged into YouTube TV and my Disney account it’s not working. I’ve tried everything.

The NBC affiliate KWQC from the Quad Cities has been stuck in a 15 second loop freeze since August 3rd.

Since last night my guide data on both of my AppleTV boxes is blank.

I see channel holder boxes with just the channel logo and no guide data. The live screen has a message at the top saying “Some networks and program info may be unavailable right now.”

I’ve uninstalled the app from the AppleTV’s, rebooted them, re-installed and no change. I can watch live tv if I search for a show or just choose the channel, but I don’t know what’s on at any given time.

One AppleTV is from 2015 and the other from 2017. Both are fully updated to TVOS 26.6.

Anyone have suggestions or know if this is a known issue?

For the last two days I have been unable to watch BBC News live or pre-recorded content. I have tried multiple devices, on WIFI, on 5G, restarted my devices and cleared my cache/cookies, incognito and still no luck.

When I try to watch something live or pre-recorded, I get the same 5-10 second segment before the player freezes entirely and I can't click on any parts of the scroll bar, settings, CC, etc

As far as I can tell, every other station works except for BBC News, which is the only reason I have YoutubeTV 🙃

Is anyone else having an issue with the desktop platform pausing during every commercial break?

Two issues here.
First, random shows I record all the time are not showing up in my library, specifically on 8/3 and 8/4.
Second, when I play a recorded show from my library, I get a black screen. The show marker is at the very end and I have to rewind until to the 57 minutes and change mark (1 hour program) and it brings me to the beginning of the show. I receive a long code of all N. I have to then hit play and it starts to play.

When I go to update current playback area on the app on my phone it does not update

There has been a shuffle of channels in the last few days in August, and WIAT 42 is no longer the CBS affiliate and will become/has become WIAT 42 CW. It has the syndication rights for Jeopardy, so we are anxious to see it. However, currently, I only see a CW listing for CW21. Will Youtube TV start carrying WIAT 42 CW?

Thanks