

If folks sign up for Peacock Premium, bypassing YouTube TV, it becomes less relevant and its monthly collections are $10 a head poorer.

It may seem odd at first to see Google's live TV platform sending folks directly to the company it's fighting against. If that doesn't work for you, YouTube TV is encouraging subscribers to consider signing up for Peacock Premium to get access to their missing channels for as little as $4.99 a month.

If you can live without the NBCUniversal content, you'll be saving $10 a month. That's not going to work, of course, since YouTube TV has a much better value proposition for its members. A cut is rarely a good look for the company that's slashing prices, but this move sends a message to Comcast's NBCUniversal that it probably isn't ready to hear.Ĭomcast is sending folks to an online landing page where YouTube TV subscribers can switch providers, tweet a pre-scripted appeal out into the wild, or open a chat support request with YouTube TV itself. In a brilliant move, Alphabet's YouTube TV is promising to cut its monthly rate from $64.99 to $54.99 while the NBCUniversal offerings remain off its platform. YouTube TV stands to lose a lot of content if the parties go their separate ways, but viewers won't end up empty-handed. Comcast is also speaking out.Ĭarriage rights end on Thursday for the NBCUniversal broadcasting networks and cable channels available on YouTube's cloud-based platform, and the two sides apparently aren't close to working out an extension. To that end, Alphabet's ( GOOG 0.38% ) ( GOOGL 0.25% ) YouTube TV is making waves this week by going public with its spat with Comcast's ( CMCSA 1.34% ) NBCUniversal arm. Live TV streaming services aren't any different from cable and satellite television providers, in that they're at the mercy of their content providers.
