YouTube TV Going up to $82.99/month

[Eric]

At first I loved this service as it was my first jump to cutting the cord but JFC they're getting as bad as the cable companies now.

YouTube TV price hike coming January 2025

In a move sure to rattle some subscribers, YouTube TV has announced a price increase for its Base Plan. Starting January 13, 2025, the monthly subscription cost will jump from $72.99 to $82.99. The search giant cites the rising costs of content and investments in service quality as the primary...

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[Edd]

I was a Hulu Live customer for a couple of years, and my memory tells me it shot up roughly $20 in a single increase. That broke me for good. I’m not a sports fan and cable news is unnecessary so all of those live services can fuck off forever.

 

[Herdfan]

I was a Hulu Live customer for a couple of years,

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/media/disney-hulu-live-tv-fubo-merge-venu-sports/index.html

I guess we will continue to see more consolidation like this until there are only a handful left.

 

[Nycturne]

At first I loved this service as it was my first jump to cutting the cord but JFC they're getting as bad as the cable companies now.

This was something I kinda expected. Consolidation and pressure from the content providers for more bundling/revenue being kicked their way was the problem with cable networks. When you recreate that situation with a streaming service, you wind up in the same boat.

 

[Yoused]

We had C-band satellite TV for a decade and a half. It was awesome before everything went digital. I once found a wild feed of Steve Jobs doing a full RDF presentation of something or the other (a wild feed was a direct analog downlink meant for rebroadcasters – I was able to watch the super bowl in Spanish, with no commercials, I taped the entire 2-part finale of Star Trek: Voyager as a single 85-minute content block, and there were numerous live-via-satellite feeds of reporters standing around BS-ing with the camera crew while waiting for the anchor link).

We got the "4DTV" digital subscription, which started out ok, but the channels gradually devolved into utter crap. When they changed their format, we got out, because, paying a sub to watch commercials was straight up wrong, and watchable content was gone. OTA television is a good electric fireplace at no charge. I would not sub to YT because that will eventually degrade into the same kind of sewage as cable/satellite. Time to just go outside and play.