YouTube TV, which has taken heat from subscribers for not carrying the Bally Sports regional sports channels, is offering reduced monthly prices to select new customers.
The normal base rate for the live streaming service is $64.99 a month. However, the YouTube TV web site is occasionally posting a promotional offer that reduces the first month of service to $44.99. On other occasions, the site features a $54.99 a month price for the first three months of service.
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It’s unclear why the promotional prices are not available each time you visit the YouTube TV site, but the service may be conducting an experiment before offering them to everyone. The TV Answer Man has asked YouTube TV for an explanation and will report back here if we get more information.
Below are screenshots of the promotional price offers.
YouTube TV’s pricing has been under fire from subscribers since last June when the streamer raised the monthly rate by 30 percent, from $49.99 a month to $64.99 a month. The criticism has escalated this month because YouTube TV is not carrying the Bally Sports channels, the TV home of several Major League Baseball teams. (The streamer lost the channels last year in a fee fight with their owner, Sinclair Broadcasting.)
With the MLB season now under way, some YouTube TV customers have called for a rate reduction, saying the service is overpriced because of the omission.
In addition to the promo prices, YouTube TV is offering a free two-week trial which includes the live channels and DVR service.
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As a Youtube TV subscriber, I really don’t care if they never carry the RSNs again. I haven’t missed them.
Still overpriced, especially without the RSNs.
Without local baseball, I will be canceling my Youtube TV subscription soon. I was hoping for a last minute solution with regional networks but $64.99 is too much money for what is offered. I will probably be back on somebody’s streaming service during football season.
We are very happy with YTTV. There is no other service that will provide us with the same exact content plus unlimited DVR service, plus 6 accounts for $64.99. And now, as a T-Mobile subscriber, we got in on the new T-Mobile offer for $10 off a month. So we are paying $54.99 now. T-Mobile is ending their T-Vision service and they have an agreement with Google now. But once again, with the box fees, DVR service fees, and other fees that cable companies charge, like I said, we cannot possibly find any service for this price that offers the same exact channel lineup.
I cancelled Youtube TV because I found myself spending my nights endlessly channel surfing and finding absolutely NOTHING to watch, especially since my favorite shows are all on Discovery+ now. I’m now subscribed to Discovery+, Disney+, Paramount+ and Amazon Prime, for a total of $31 a month. And I can cancel any one of them when there is nothing new to watch. Oh yeah, an indoor antenna gives me excellent quality local channels. There’s a website that livestreams all the news channels, so I can basically recreate my viewing habits that I had with Youtube TV.
Baseball I can do without now, it totally sucks, nothing but strike outs and walks and ground balls to second base. I can’t watch more than an inning without falling asleep. Not to mention all the “woke” garbage.
cool story, bro.
I miss my Bally RSN on YouTubeTV, but I will remain a subscriber. I just added the $10 per month discount for being a T-Mobile subscriber. I am also using the free MLB.tv through T-Mobile, combined with a VPN to continue watching my home team on Bally Sports.