YouTube TV Adds 3 New Channels

By Phillip Swann
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YouTube TV, the live streaming service which costs $82.99 a month, has added the three C-Span channels, as the streamer promised earlier this year.

C-SPAN, which covers the live proceedings of the U.S. Congress and other federal meetings, has sought for several years to have its three channels on live streaming services. Congress even passed a resolution urging live streaming services to carry C-SPAN. (Until now, DIRECTV streaming was the only live streaming service to carry them.)

But the live streamers, which are not under the same federal regulations as cable and satellite, had balked, noting the added expense of carrying them. It’s not clear what changed but the FCC during the summer rejected a request from broadcasters to impose the same regulatory fees on live streamers that are now on satellite and broadcasters. The streamers lobbied hard to get the exemption.

“We are proud that this agreement will give millions more Americans access to our unfiltered coverage of the nation’s political process,” said Sam Feist, chief executive officer of C-SPAN, in a statement in September.

Hulu Live is also expected soon to add the three C-Span channels, perhaps as early as this week.

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