YouTube TV is one of the best alternatives to cable TV. With YouTube TV, you can create your own TV plan with only the channels you want, and exclude the ones you don’t. Combined with a digital TV antenna, the service is hard to beat in terms of options, especially its support for multiple users, unique multi-view feature, and near-unlimited DVR. However, to take full advantage of these great features, you may need a YouTube TV plan.
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Looking for something new to stream? You can try YouTube TV with a free trial, but terms vary depending on a few factors.
There are two plans to choose from: Basic and Spanish. You can choose specific channels rather than paying for a plan, but choosing a plan, especially the Basic plan, will give you the best deal. We’ll take a look at what the Basic plan offers and what you get for your money.
YouTube TV
- Concurrent Streams
- 3
- Number of Profiles
- 6
- Live TV
- yes
- price
- Starting at $73/month
- Free Trial
- Yes, the length varies
What is the YouTube TV base plan?
This is the largest subscription
The basic plan of YouTube TV is the usual plan when you sign up for this service. Although there are some channels you can watch without paying for the basic plan, subscribing gives you expanded features. With the basic plan, you can stream YouTube TV from three devices simultaneously as well as create six different profiles.
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The YouTube TV Basic plan can be streamed from devices on all major smart TV brands, including Roku, Fire TV, LG, Samsung, etc. It starts with a 30-day free trial, then costs $57.99/month for the first three months, and $72.99/month thereafter.
YouTube TV Basic plan includes:
Record all shows
When you sign up for YouTube TV’s basic plan, you’ll get a lot of features right away. This plan gives you unlimited DVR space. If you have cable TV, you probably had a limited amount of DVR space, which limited the number of shows and movies you could download. Once it was full, you couldn’t record anything until you deleted or removed your old recordings. Not so with YouTube TV. You can store as many shows and movies as you want on your DVR and access them from any device where the service is installed. You can record almost anything and play it back whenever you want.
The Basic plan also gives you access to features that make watching sports even more fun. There are different views that you can turn on as filters while watching a game. The Key Plays view is a unique filter that tracks the most important plays in the game. The Score view shows you the score across the league, while the Stats view gives you real-time statistics for the players and teams in the game you are watching. Finally, the Fantasy Football view lets you link to your NFL.com fantasy football team to track how your players are doing in real-time on your screen.
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Another benefit for watching sports is Multi-View, which allows you to stream multiple games simultaneously on one screen. You can box up to four games at once, so you never miss the action in the games you’re interested in. Audio tracks can also be easily changed, so you can hear what’s happening at different times in different games.
What channels are included in the YouTube TV Basic plan?
There are over 100
YouTube TV’s basic plan includes over 100 live channels, including broadcast staples and a number of cable channels.
The available channels are:
- A.B.C.
- CBS
- Fox
- NBC
- ABC News
- ACC Network
- AMC
- All reality WE TV
- Adult Swim
- Animal Planet
- BBC America
- BBC News
- Bed
- Betting on her
- Big Ten Network
- Bravo
- to bounce, to bounce
- CBS Sports Network
- CNBC
- CNBC World
- CNN
- Cartoon Network
- charging!
- Cheddar
- Cheddar News
- country music tv
- Comedy Central
- Comedy TV
- Comet
- Court TV
- Koji TV
- double
- discovery
- Disney
- Disney Junior
- Disney XD
- Documentary drama
- Pigeon Channel
- picture!
- ESPN
- ESPN2
- ESPNU
- ESP News
- FOXBusiness
- Fox News
- Fox Soul
- FOX Weather
- FS1
- FS2
- FX
- FXM
- fax
- Food Network
- Freeform
- Gala Vision
- Get TV
- Golf Channel
- Game Show Network
- Hallmark Channel
- Hallmark Family
- Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
- HGTV
- HLN
- HSSN
- IFC
- ID
- ion
- Justice Central TV
- Los Angeles FC
- Law and Crime
- Live Streaming FOX
- Local Now
- Localish ABC
- Magnolia Network
- MSNBC
- Motor Trend
- tv set
- MTV2
- MTV Classic
- My TV Network
- NBA TV
- NBC News Now
- NBC Universo
- NBCSN
- NBC Radio
- neon
- National Geographic Wild
- Nat Geo
- News Nation
- NFL Network
- Nickelodeon
- Nick Jr.
- Nickelodeon
- Orlando City FC
- Own
- oxygen
- Oxygen True Crime
- Paramount Network
- PBS
- PBS Kids
- PC Mug
- pop
- Quik
- Recipe TV
- Scripps News
- SEC Network
- Smithsonian Channel
- Start TV
- Story by AMC
- Sundance TV
- SciFi
- T2
- to be decided
- TBS
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- TLC
- TNTNT
- TYT
- Tastemade
- Teen Nick
- Telehit
- Telemundo
- CW
- Great Course Signature Collection
- Journey
- True TV
- TV Land
- united states of america
- Unimaster
- Universal Kids
- Univision
- VH1
- The Walking Dead Universe
- WETV
- The Weather Channel
- YouTube Originals
You can also add many streaming services and specific channels to your basic plan, starting at $1.99 per month.
Other YouTube TV plans
There’s only one other plan
If you choose the Basic plan, you will get all the services we have covered. But if you are more interested in Spanish language programming, you can choose the Spanish plan. You will get all the same features, and the number of profiles and devices you can stream on simultaneously. However, you will get to watch over 30 Spanish language channels, not those covered in the Basic plan, which is available for $34.99 per month after the initial 7-day free trial. If you add the Spanish plan to your Basic plan, you can add over 30 channels for $14.99 per month to your Basic plan payment of $72.99.
