YouTube TV will offer new sports package to customers next year

YouTube TV is promising subscribers “more prime and flexibility” successful their video plans adjacent year.

Will it mean little prices? That remains to beryllium seen.

But it appears YouTube is pursuing the attack of different pay-TV providers successful offering smaller, genre circumstantial packages — including 1 for sports — that travel with a smaller bill.

The Google-owned level said Wednesday successful a blog station that it volition connection 10 packages starting adjacent year.

“Our extremity is to fto you tailor your subscription with much options. Whether you instrumentality with our main YouTube TV program with 100+ channels, absorption connected sports, harvester sports and news, oregon prime a program centered connected household and amusement content, subscribers volition beryllium capable to easy take the program that works champion for them,” the institution said.

No details were fixed connected pricing.

The institution said it volition person a sports program that offers the large broadcast networks, sports cablegram channels FS1, NBC Sports Network and ESPN. The program would vie with the operation of the Fox One and ESPN streaming services, which are being offered unneurotic for $39.99 a month.

Over the past year, El Segundo-based DirecTV rolled retired smaller packages of channels aimed astatine consumers who nary longer privation a large monthly measure for networks they don’t watch. The outer TV work present offers smaller genre packages of channels and streaming apps that cater to a peculiar involvement disposable astatine a little terms — designed for quality junkies, sports fans, children and Spanish-language speakers.

YouTube TV is apt looking astatine that exemplary arsenic it is intelligibly feeling the compression from rising programming costs. The level has had respective contentious negotiations with Comcast, TelevisaUnivision, Fox Corporation and the Walt Disney Co.

Disney’s channels, including ESPN, were disconnected of YouTube TV for astir 15 days past month. YouTube TV customers mislaid entree to Univision’s Spanish-language channels for 2 months, which drew the attraction of legislators connected some sides of the governmental spectrum.

YouTube TV was introduced successful 2017 arsenic an alternate to the rising prices of cablegram and outer services. The archetypal terms was $35 a month. It’s present $82.99.

But the work is facing the aforesaid unit arsenic accepted pay-TV distributors. Program providers are looking for higher fees arsenic the wide fig of customers declines owed to cord-cutting.