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Google introduced a worth enhance for its YouTube TV subscription on Thursday. It’s rising from $65 monthly to $73 monthly beginning in April, in accordance with an e-mail despatched to subscribers Thursday.
YouTube TV is Google’s cable substitute. It offers entry to reside TV and cable channels, delivered by means of an web connection.
“As content costs have risen and we continue to invest in the quality of our service, we are updating our price to keep bringing you the best possible service,” the corporate mentioned within the e-mail to subscribers.
Google’s transfer to hike the worth of its over-the-air subscription for wire cutters comes after a number of competing on-line streaming companies have additionally raised the quantity they cost, together with companies from Disney, Apple and HBO.
In December, YouTube TV secured rights to the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” bundle, which is able to permit it to promote a bundle of out-of-market NFL video games that do not air on native TV to subscribers across the nation.
YouTube pays about $2 billion per yr for the bundle, CNBC reported, which had a number of different bidders together with Apple and Disney. Google hasn’t introduced pricing for its “Sunday Ticket” bundle, however it value $80 monthly beneath its earlier proprietor, DirecTV.
Google can even decrease the worth of an add-on to entry higher-resolution 4K streams from $20 monthly to $10 monthly, in accordance with the e-mail.
Source: www.cnbc.com