YouTube TV New Pricing: Plans, Content, and What You Actually Get
Youtube TV introduced several cheaper, customizable plans starting at $54.99. Youtube has officially rolled out its long-awaited new new pricing structure designed to give subscribers more control over what they watch and how much they pay. After months of teasers, you can now break Youtube content into genre-based subscriptions.
The rollout begins this week, though YouTube TV says it will take several weeks before the plans reach all users. Pricing and content details are now official.
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Youtube TV New Pricing
The standard YouTube TV package pricing remains unchanged at $82.99 per month, continuing to offer access to 100+ live TV networks across sports, entertainment, news, and local channels. The new Youtube TV Plans don’t replace the main bundle. Instead, they offer lower-cost alternatives for viewers who don’t need everything included in the full package:
- Sports Plan – $64.99/month ($54.99 for new users) $18 less than the main plan. Get major broadcast channels plus top sports networks like FS1, NBC Sports Network, all ESPN channels, and ESPN Unlimited (coming this fall).
- Sports + News Plan – $71.99/month ($56.99 for new users). $11 below the main plan. Includes everything in the Sports Plan, plus national news networks such as CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.
- Entertainment Plan – $54.99/month ($44.99 for new users). $28 cheaper than the main plan. Perfect for movie lovers and binge-watchers, featuring channels like Comedy Central, Bravo, Paramount, Food Network, HGTV, and more.
- News + Entertainment + Family Plan – $69.99/month ($59.99 for new users) $13 lower than the main plan. Combines news and entertainment with family favorites including Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Cartoon Network, and PBS Kids.
YouTube TV Sports Plan: Built for Live Games
The most anticipated option is the YouTube Sports Plan, which focuses heavily on live and on-demand sports coverage.
Pricing:
- $64.99/month for existing users
- $54.99/month for new users (first year only)
Included content:
- Major broadcast networks
- FS1
- NBC Sports
- All ESPN networks
- ESPN Unlimited (launching later in 2026)
This plan is positioned as a significant discount compared to the full YouTube TV bundle while retaining access to the most in-demand sports channels.
YouTube TV Entertainment Plan: Popular Cable Without the Sports
For viewers who primarily want general entertainment, YouTube TV is also offering an Entertainment Plan.
Pricing:
- $54.99/month
- $44.99/month for new users (first three months)
Included channels:
- Hallmark
- FX
- Comedy Central
- Bravo
- Paramount Network
- Food Network
- HGTV
- And more
This plan cuts out most sports content in favor of lifestyle, reality, and scripted programming.
Combo Plans Add More Flexibility
YouTube TV is also launching bundle-style Plans that mix multiple genres together at a discounted rate.
Sports + News Plan
- $71.99/month
- $56.99/month for new users (first three months)
Includes everything in the Sports Plan plus:
- CNBC
- Fox News
- MSNBC
- CNN
- Additional national news channels
News + Entertainment + Family Plan
- $69.99/month
- $59.99/month for new users (first three months)
Includes news and entertainment channels, plus family-friendly networks such as:
- Disney Channel
- Nickelodeon
- Cartoon Network
- PBS Kids
Features and Add-Ons Still Included
Regardless of which Plan you choose, YouTube TV says subscribers will continue to have access to core platform features, including:
- Unlimited cloud DVR
- Multiview
- Key Plays
- Optional add-ons such as NFL Sunday Ticket, RedZone, Max (HBO), 4K Plus, and more
More YouTube TV Plans Are Coming
According to YouTube TV, this is just the beginning. Over the next several weeks, the company plans to introduce more than 10 genre-based Plans across Sports, News, Entertainment, and Family categories.
Many of these new options will be priced $11 to $28 cheaper than the full YouTube TV bundle.
Why YouTube TV Is Doing This Now?
YouTube TV executives have previously described these Plans as a response to viewer frustration with rising streaming prices and oversized bundles. By offering smaller, targeted packages, the company hopes to give people the flexibility once had with traditional cable - without locking users into channels they never watch.
For viewers who cut the cord to escape bloated TV packages, these new Plans may finally deliver the control they were promised.
Are the new YouTube TV Plans enough to replace the full bundle for you, or do you still prefer having everything in one package?
At some point will Youtube TV give an actual listing of the specific channels that are included in each plan?
Right now, YouTube hasn’t released a channel list yet. If there are any updates regarding it, I’ll update the post in the future.
The BBC are cutting a deal with Google/YouTube, to provide streaming content featuring major future productions!
Are you not EXCITED ? !!
Fewer and fewer people are buying the extortionately priced TV licence, recently risen in price to £180 per year, and refuse to consume content which amounts to rubbish at a fundamental level. It wouldn’t be so bad if viewers played a part in having an input into the type of entertainment that the BBC could produce for them, but just like the arrogant attitude of Microsoft, they seem to think that they know best.
There has been a significant drop in the purchase of licences recently, due to world wide austerity, and stratospherically increasing prices, the reasons for which no one can adequately explain.
I suppose they have to make up the shortfall in their revenues somehow, so prepare to experience even more crap on YouTube than there is already, but in BBC style !
..Oh..and won’t you feel privileged when you have to pay for a licence to watch BBC streaming content, even if you reside in another country! Today YouTube tomorrow, the world!
Bon Appetite ..
Peter Newton [London UK Linux user since 2004]
You can use the BlockTube extension to blacklist BBC content from appearing in your feed (on desktop browsers). YouTube is also known to pay very little for content. You have to get a crap ton of views to pay off the huge departments they have.
I would never pay for content.
Have to agree for the most part. I am currently watching “True Blood”. It is a weird show, but it is also a great work of art. If you can get it on DVD, it is worth paying for. What current production of TV and movies does is, it generates “content”. I will watch “content” on ad-supported streamers, but I would not pay for it. At least I will not pay for it month after month. Maybe a month or two to watch all the new stuff, and that’s it.
I’m looking for new “skinny” Youtube TV plans that don’t have the local network affiliate TV stations since we get them free over-the-air (OTA). Haven’t seen them yet, so will most likely just stay with DirecTV MyEntertainment package and suffer with free HBO Max and Disney+/Hulu addon’s. I would pay Youtube TV a little more for the DVR functionality, but not double what I pay now.
They could have fixed this by having the local network affiliate stations be in their own package/plan. Then you could add it to any other plan if you needed those, or not if you don’t. While Youtube TV hasn’t revealed all of their plans yet, I’m betting that they’re not going to do this from the plans that I’ve seen already.