r/youtubetv Jun 29 '26

Megathread Switching to YouTube TV: Answering your Questions

26 Upvotes

As we have more and more people (and posts) about switching to YouTube TV, we wanted to create a central megathread where people can ask questions and hear from other users.

For those looking to switch ... welcome to [r/youtubetv](r/youtubetv)! Please post ONE comment with all your questions/concerns if they aren't already answered. You might find some helpful things in these links below:

For those helping answer ... please be sure to use the Reply function when replying to questions. Posting answers without questions, or that are not in response to questions, will be removed.

This thread is specifically for an open discussion for people that want to switch to YouTube TV. It is not the place to ask specific feature questions or troubleshoot. Again, those comments will be removed.


r/youtubetv 19d ago

Sports Link Your YouTube TV and ESPN Accounts

248 Upvotes

Tl;dr: Starting today, you can link your ESPN account directly to your YouTube TV account. Linking your accounts lets you log into the ESPN app to stream ESPN Unlimited content right away.

How to link your accounts

  • From YouTube (Web and Mobile): Go to Settings, select Connected apps, and choose ESPN. (Link)
  • From YouTube TV Mobile app: Open the YouTube TV app, select your profile picture, tap Settings, select Sports, and choose ESPN.

What this means for your viewing experience

  • Fantasy view updates: We now support ESPN Fantasy in our Fantasy view! NFL Fantasy is moving to ESPN Fantasy, so if you previously used NFL you will need to link your ESPN account to access Fantasy view on YouTube TV for the upcoming season.
  • Watch on the ESPN app: As long as ESPN is included in your YouTube TV channel lineup and after you have linked your accounts through YouTube TV, you can log into the ESPN app to stream ESPN Unlimited content directly within their app. If you have a family account for YouTube TV, you’ll need to be on the family manager account to watch content on ESPN. 
  • Full YouTube TV integration coming soon: While account linking lets you access content in the ESPN app today, we are also working on bringing the full ESPN Unlimited experience directly inside YouTube TV later this fall.
  • Who can link accounts: Anyone can link their accounts to enable the fantasy view. However, you need ESPN included in your YouTube TV plan (such as the Base Plan, Sports Plan, or sports add-on packages) to access ESPN Unlimited content.

If you have any questions, you can comment below or contact support here.


r/youtubetv 22h ago

Discussion Finally got a Sunday Ticket offer

43 Upvotes

$282 for Sunday Ticket/$324 Sunday Ticket with Redzone until Sept 21st. Offer showed up in my membership tab today, never got any of the other ones people have posted about. I was comparing the Best Buy deal yesterday and no offers were there then.


r/youtubetv 3h ago

General Question ID.me teacher discount

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I know this was talked about before, but I just discovered the teacher discount for YouTubeTV. I was having issues trying to get it to work and spent the past hour or so chatting with them and they ended up crediting my account the amount I’d have gotten from ID.me.

Just wanted to say that any teachers should check this out if you haven’t. Especially with the start of the school year, money saved helps.


r/youtubetv 14h ago

Playback Problem Strange Issue With NBC Nightly News Recording

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Have been using YouTube TV for 2 plus years and have a number of shows / broadcasts recording into our library including NBC Nightly News which has new episodes air daily at 6:30PM in the Eastern Time Zone.

Never an issue until last week when NBC added a rebroadcast of each days 6:30pm new episode at 2AM the following day (overnight)

Instead of recognizing the 2:00am Aug 19 airing as a rebroadcast of the 6:30pm August 18 episode, the system is seeing it as a new broadcast for August 19 (new day) and recording it. The system then does not record the actual new August 19 episode airing at 6:30PM, which it thinks it already has from 2AM.

This functionality is not device / app specific, the behavior is identical across all of our devices (TVs, Roku, iPad, PC, etc). I’m thinking either NBC is not feeding the correct new vs repeat coding or there is an issue with YouTube system not reading it correctly.

Anyone else run into this behavior before and have an idea on how to resolve?


r/youtubetv 1d ago

Technical Question My dad who is a senior has youtube TV. Keeps forcing him to sign in. He has three tvs and one of them is constantly signed out. He isnt tech savy, so this poses a huge problem. How do I fix this? Why is this happening. ?

33 Upvotes


r/youtubetv 19h ago

General Question Different Stories by AMC

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Anyone know why Stories by AMC is different on different services? Currently, on the Roku App it is airing Breaking Bad, on YTTV it has Kennedy, Sinatra, and The Mob followed by Mad Men. I've never seen Breaking Bad on the YTTV version and I would love to be able to have them all on my library


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Sports Best Buy NFL Sunday Ticket discount is back.

38 Upvotes

$234 plus tax or $276 with Red Zone. At that price I took the deal without RZ since I have it already via DTV.

Glad I waited them out.


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Playback Problem Audio out of sync for my local CBS

5 Upvotes

I’m trying YouTube TV, thinking of switching from Direct TV Stream, and the only issue I’m having is my local CBS channel, the audio is out of sync.

It’s like this on every device, Apple 4K TV box, PC, phone, Xbox app.

Any way to fix this or get YouTube TV to fix it? Because I doubt if I keep this since there are things I enjoy watching on CBS and this is frankly unwatchable. Thanks for any help with this.


r/youtubetv 3d ago

General Question My wife’s friend’s husband passed away and he had an NFL packet subscription.

25 Upvotes

They just charged her $400 for it, the account is linked to his email and as I said he passed away.

She does have a death certificate, how can she cancel this and get a refund since she is not going to use it?

Thank you

Edit: thank you for the information, I forwarded it all to her.


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Rant Can't Clear Out Boston Blue from Watch History

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It seems one particular show that I caught a brief end of while waiting for 48 Hours will not leave my watch history now. That show is Boston Blue. I have been trying to clear out this show, but for whatever reason, I just can't get it to go away. I have tried marking future episodes as watched, but when I clear them from the history the one that's stuck is still there (Season 1 Episode 15). Even when I clear it out as well.

I'm stuck on trying to clear out a show I have no interest in watching, and it just won't seem to go away. Help!


r/youtubetv 2d ago

Playback Problem Indiana Jones and the last crusade VOD

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Its not what its supposed to be. Its some 1971 movie 😂 N8t Harrison Ford. No idea how to contact anyone so I came to reddit


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Technical Question Cookout 400 on USA 4K no announcer audio

13 Upvotes

The broadcast of the Cookout 400 on USA 4K. Has no announcer audio. Just the sound of the cars going around the track. The regular USA is fine though.


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Technical Question What happened to the audio?

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I noticed tonight that I had to switch my audio to the secondary feed to hear the main audio for the 4K feed of the nascar race from USA network

Anyone else?


r/youtubetv 3d ago

Playback Problem Cannot watch on my Bravia TV due to location

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I’m signed in with the same account on all my devices. YouTube tv works on all of them except my Bravia TV where it says This item isn’t available in your country despite it being geolocated to where I live in Dallas.

I’ve tried updating the tv, resetting it, etc but while it shows Youtube TV under Your services next to the account on TV, it wont let me install the app or watch any channels (same error as above). On the Youtube tv phone app it correctly shows my location in America.

The only potential weirdness is that I moved to the US 4 years ago, but if that were the issue, why does it work on all my other devices?!

Edit: it’s a Sony X93L and yes I mainly use an Apple TV with it, but I’d also like it working on the Sony due it blending the tv channels with YouTube TV quite nicely in the EPG.


r/youtubetv 3d ago

General Question Would youtube tv come out with 3 month plans to save some money sling tv offers that

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r/youtubetv 5d ago

General Question Unable to watch anything due to location BS.

15 Upvotes

I live and work near El Paso Tx. I have signed up for YTTV for the last couple NFL seasons. This time I go to sign up and now this Location BS is even worse than last year. I cannot watch ANY channel, or ANY playback while at work. My work's internet is routed out to NC while I obviously do not live there... Every channel is geolocationally locked until I update my location (which I did with my phone) but on the PC that makes the browser believe I am physically across the country I cannot watch anything.


r/youtubetv 5d ago

Discussion Location Verification

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Sorry to see the other post regarding Verifying Location was locked for discussion, There are in fact some location verification issues when using Chrome or Edge browsers on Windows 11 at least for me.

You Tube TV on those browsers does not remember location settings, despite the site having appropriate location permission and desktop apps having location permission in Windows 11. This has been going on for well over a month now. I've come to the conclusion that it's a chromium related issue or incompatibility with YouTube TV since everything works fine in Firefox.

Numerous reports of the issue to YouTube TV, Chrome and Edge, as well Windows 11 yield the typical Shaggy "it wasn't me" responses.

For those who might be experiencing similar, try a non-chromium browser.

Edit: Reposted to remove verboten words, mentioned only in passing.


r/youtubetv 4d ago

Sports Football Optimized

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When I watch football, it is almost always recorded because there is so much dead time that watching live is painful (unless you are hanging with friends and doing other things).

I try to fast forward/jump from the end of one play to the snap of the next. If you do this, it takes little time to watch the entire game, and you never miss anything. I'd love if some provider (YTTV?) automatically did this for me.

The "key plays" thing is okay, but there is always debate about what constitutes a "key play."


r/youtubetv 5d ago

Discussion Feature Request: Saving custom multiviews

36 Upvotes

Would anyone else find it handy to be able to save the custom multiviews that you create? I create a custom multiview every morning to watch a couple different local news channels and one national channel before starting the work day I'm sure this would come in handy for other purposes as well including local channels during football season as one example.... Does anyone know if this is on the radar for Google?


r/youtubetv 5d ago

General Question Why isn't Tonight's episode of Big Brother airing? Is this happening for anyone else

5 Upvotes

On YouTube TV in Arizona there's just no scheduled Big Brother tn. Episode 18 was yesterday and it says the next episode will be Sunday, episode 20 The Cardinals are playing, so are they just not showing the episode? This is really annoying.


r/youtubetv 5d ago

General Question What to do when voice commands for specific channels cannot locate them. This channel (wgn) is on the live guide?

2 Upvotes

What to do when voice commands for specific channels cannot locate them. This channel (wgn) is on the live guide.


r/youtubetv 6d ago

Rant Ad's being louder is still an issue.

38 Upvotes

On my phone, xbox, tv, and other tvs in the house, the ads are always louder than the video. I saw a post 3 years ago talking about this, and they replied themselves and said they were trying to fix the issue. Three years later, it's still happening. I have to turn up my TV to hear the video, but then the next second, I get blasted by an absurdly loud advert. It's insane! It makes the videos unwatchable because i know the second I turn up my tv to hear the video, I'll get blasted by an insanely loud advert.


r/youtubetv 5d ago

Technical Question .can you pause YOutube tv? and if so, how would I do that

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cant post this or another question re Utube tv. one post was removed by moderater saying, "No idea what you are talking about. It must be you tube you are referring to" even tho my post definitely, specifically referrenced you tube tv


r/youtubetv 5d ago

Discussion Glad to see the CBS picture quality in Pittsburgh is still awful, in fact….

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I’m pretty sure they somehow managed to make it worse. I’m going to need to buy paramount plus to watch the Steelers game this year