I'm seriously thinking of cancelling YTTV in favor of Hulu + live tv. I would save me about $30.00 per month for three months but then the price jumps to comparable YTTV rates. It's, at my age, change sucks.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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Ag1985 said:

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Poors who cut the cord

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Lol. What?
Up till this time around it's been traditional cable and satellite (cord) companies in these flights!

Pretty sure this is the first big Streaming Fight with a major content provider.

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It's the 3rd one this fall for YTTV (NBC and one other I can't remember) and they also had a standoff with Paramount (CBS, etc) in February. This too shall pass.

Sharpshooter said:

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I'm seriously thinking of cancelling YTTV in favor of Hulu + live tv.

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Just as Disney hopes you will.

Disney owns 100% of Hulu as of June 2025

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AggieArchitect04 said:

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Once again the consumer gets screwed over one way or another.

Decent timing for us with a bye week, but what is happening and what are our contingencies?

It would be peak Aggie to have the most success we've had since the early 90s and also not be able to watch them on TV…for an entirely different reason.

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As you all know, I love screwing corporations.

I watch all my games on free streaming services online. Yes, all of them, google. I don't watch games on a TV, I watch them on my desktop on my 2nd monitor while I read meltdowns on TexAgs on the other.

Try it. Don't pay these corps anything.

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Always amazed by how many people on here have no problem with stealing.

It seems like I'll have to watch the games at a spot with scantily dressed staff and plenty of booze.

AggieArchitect04 said:

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This aggression will not stand.

I just paused my YTTV account and encourage everyone else to do the same.

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It's not their fault. They are trying to hold serve against Disney who is ESPN and who is Hulu.

I'm pissed that y'all are making me defend Google.

ESPN has their own streaming service. Jacking up the price to YTTV probably drives more customers to ESPN directly and cuts out the middleman. At a minimum, they want YTTV to pay around the same amount as what one would pay ESPN directly, so they get the same cash. YTTV can cave and just pay it, but then they will turn around pass the increase to all of us. It's just business.

Enginerd00 said:

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ESPN has their own streaming service. Jacking up the price to YTTV probably drives more customers to ESPN directly and cuts out the middleman. At a minimum, they want YTTV to pay around the same amount as what one would pay ESPN directly, so they get the same cash. YTTV can cave and just pay it, but then they will turn around pass the increase to all of us. It's just business.

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And then Disney will raise prices to match YTTV. They've always followed one another in pricing.

P.H. Dexippus said:

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Sharpshooter said:

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I'm seriously thinking of cancelling YTTV in favor of Hulu + live tv.

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Just as Disney hopes you will.

Disney owns 100% of Hulu as of June 2025

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This. Cancelling YTTV is exactly what Disney wants you to do. Since they own Hulu, Fubo, and the new ESPN service, they are doing this to get people to leave Youtube for one of their services.

ESPN+ Unlimited for $30 a month + Fox One for $10 a month.

Supplement with rabbit ears for broadcast tv on CBS and NBC and I haven't missed one CFB game I've wanted to watch.

We cancelled DirectTv a few months back. Plan was to get YTTV at some point but I haven't yet.

We bought an antenna and plan to pay for a day/weekend/weekend sling pass if there's ever a game we want to watch that isn't over the air. Hasn't been a problem this season between ABC games and kids sports schedules. After the football season is over it won't be a problem until next August.

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P.H. Dexippus said:

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Sharpshooter said:

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I'm seriously thinking of cancelling YTTV in favor of Hulu + live tv.

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Just as Disney hopes you will.

Disney owns 100% of Hulu as of June 2025

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This. Cancelling YTTV is exactly what Disney wants you to do. Since they own Hulu, Fubo, and the new ESPN service, they are doing this to get people to leave Youtube for one of their services.

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Oh, I get it. I don't want to change (change sucks) as I indicated in the part of my post not copied and pasted. And, I despise Disney and don't want to give them my money. I'm holding off until next Saturday when it matters.
I can Google games tomorrow as I am only interested in watching tu lose.

I've been happy with Fubo. You can create your own multicast with certain streaming devices and it's got SCHN for Astros games.

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AggieArchitect04 said:

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This aggression will not stand.

I just paused my YTTV account and encourage everyone else to do the same.

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It's not their fault. They are trying to hold serve against Disney who is ESPN and who is Hulu.

I'm pissed that y'all are making me defend Google.

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It's 100% their fault. They came up with a business model where they have practically no leverage.

They can't advocate or protect their customers from price gouging because they have to succumb to whims of a provider or piss off their entire subscriber base.

Article on free alternatives to YTTV for football.

https://www.syracuse.com/tv/2025/10/heres-how-youtube-tv-customers-can-still-watch-college-football-on-espn-for-free-amid-blackout.html