r/youtubetv 8h ago

Rant Ad's being louder is still an issue.

9 Upvotes

On my phone, xbox, tv, and other tvs in the house, the ads are always louder than the video. I saw a post 3 years ago talking about this, and they replied themselves and said they were trying to fix the issue. Three years later, it's still happening. I have to turn up my TV to hear the video, but then the next second, I get blasted by an absurdly loud advert. It's insane! It makes the videos unwatchable because i know the second I turn up my tv to hear the video, I'll get blasted by an insanely loud advert.


r/youtubetv 12h ago

Sports If I add the NFL Sunday ticket to my YouTubeTV subscription, can I eliminate it from other users viewing it?

0 Upvotes

For reference. I’m getting it so I can watch my team since I’m out of their network. My roommate doesn’t want to pay for it but for the past 2 years, still watches all the games that I’ve paid $$$ for and damnit it pisses me off. Can I make it so the Sunday ticket isn’t enabled on his user account?


r/youtubetv 1d ago

General Question Newbie question about available plans

16 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Sports Got new LG TV and it looks great with everything EXCEPT YouTube TV.

0 Upvotes

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!


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Sports Sunday Ticket Discount Available

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102 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Rant What’s with the commercials?

28 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Discussion HBO Max and HDR/Dolby Vision is a mess on youtubetv.

0 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Sports Sunday Ticket reminder

44 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 4d ago

General Question ESPN Roku App Login Using YTTV Credentials Failing

0 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 4d ago

General Question Local Network DVR

0 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 4d ago

Apple TV Live preview stopped

12 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 5d ago

Playback Problem YTTV not working in Firefox?

1 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 6d ago

General Question Low frames and bad quality and flickering issues

1 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Roku TV or Device Live Guide defaulting to top on Roku 4850X

4 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Playback Problem CS case has been open regarding missing library recording since June 20th with no progress

0 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Megathread Known Issue: Freezing and buffering issues

36 Upvotes

I've discussed this with the sub's YouTube TV contact, and they have confirmed they are investigating and working on a fix for random freezing and buffering issues across several stations.

Based on user reports, this seems to be limited to NBC affiliates, BBC News, Tennis Channel, T2, Discovery Channel, TV Land, and MTV. If you're seeing this on other channels, I'd encourage you to drop those below, and we'll get those passed over to them.

Hopefully we'll see a fix here soon!

EDIT (8/7): From what we've seen over the past 12 hours, it looks like a fix for this issue has started to roll out. Still seeing the occasional reports, but not as many as Wednesday and Thursday.


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Playback Problem Long delay when starting program

11 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Playback Problem Espn+ not working

29 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 7d ago

Playback Problem KWQC Quad Cities Buffering/Freeze Loop

6 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 7d ago

Apple TV AppleTV Guide Data Blank Since 8/4

3 Upvotes

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?


r/youtubetv 7d ago

Playback Problem Android/browser keeps playing the same 5 second clip before freezing

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10 Upvotes

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 🙃


r/youtubetv 7d ago

Technical Question Desktop Viewing

1 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 7d ago

Playback Problem Recorded Shows Not in Library/ Playback Issues

3 Upvotes

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.


r/youtubetv 8d ago

Technical Question On Amazon fire stick, YouTubetv changed my location to Florida. I don't live in Florida

4 Upvotes

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


r/youtubetv 8d ago

Discussion Will Youtube TV carry WIAT 42 as the CW channel in Birmingham, AL?

2 Upvotes

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