YouTube TV's main plan is still $82.99 a month for 100+ channels. The plans page now sets cheaper lineups beside it, and the figure that matters is what each listed price costs over 12 bills. One of those lineups, Sports, is printed at two different rates.
On February 9, 2026, Josh Yang, YouTube's director of product management, posted the first prices. Sports was $64.99, which he called $18 below the main plan. Sports + News was $71.99, or $11 lower. Entertainment was $54.99, or $28 lower. News + Entertainment + Family was $69.99, or $13 lower. The Verge and Variety reported those four prices the same day. Variety also described the launch promos: $54.99 for new Sports subscribers for the first year, and three-month intro rates on the other new-user deals. The regular rates from that post are still on the plans page. The page also prices News + Entertainment and Sports + Entertainment + Family, plus Sports + Entertainment and Sports + News + Family in the footnote.
What a year of the listed price costs
Monthly prices below come from the plan cards. Sports uses the $64.99 on the card and in the FAQ. The 12-month column is the monthly price times 12. "Versus main" is $82.99 minus the tier. The last column is an upper bound. YouTube prints floors such as "50+", so the price divided by that floor is the highest average per channel. Channels above the floor would pull the average down.
| Plan | Monthly price | Versus main plan | 12-month bill | Upper bound per channel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main (100+ channels) | $82.99 | $0 | $995.88 | $82.99 / 100 = $0.83 |
| Sports (30+ channels) | $64.99 | $18.00 | $779.88 | $64.99 / 30 = $2.17 |
| Sports + News (50+) | $71.99 | $11.00 | $863.88 | $71.99 / 50 = $1.44 |
| Entertainment (50+) | $54.99 | $28.00 | $659.88 | $54.99 / 50 = $1.10 |
| News + Entertainment (70+) | $62.99 | $20.00 | $755.88 | $62.99 / 70 = $0.90 |
| News + Entertainment + Family (80+) | $69.99 | $13.00 | $839.88 | $69.99 / 80 = $0.87 |
| Sports + Entertainment + Family (90+) | $77.99 | $5.00 | $935.88 | $77.99 / 90 = $0.87 |
Entertainment is the widest dollar gap. $82.99 minus $54.99 is $28.00 a month, and $28.00 times 12 is $336.00. The yearly totals match: $995.88 minus $659.88 is $336.00. Yang called Entertainment $28 lower in February, and the cards still subtract that way.
The per-channel bound picks a different row. Entertainment's year is the cheapest, at $659.88, and its upper bound is $1.10 because the floor is 50 channels. The main plan's bound is $0.83, the lowest of the seven, because the floor is 100. News + Entertainment + Family and Sports + Entertainment + Family sit near $0.87. A smaller invoice and a lower price per promised channel answer different questions.
The footnote also lists Sports + Entertainment at $71.99 and Sports + News + Family at $77.99, with no channel floor beside them. A year at those rates is $71.99 times 12, or $863.88, and $77.99 times 12, or $935.88. Without a floor, there is no per-channel bound to add.
The Sports plan is listed twice
The card and the FAQ both say Sports is $64.99. The asterisk says that after the promo you pay the then-current rate, and that note lists Sports at $54.99. The other plans in the note match their cards.
$54.99 was the new-subscriber price in Yang's post, and Variety said that intro lasted 12 months before it rose to $64.99. The current page does not call $54.99 a welcome rate, and it does not say why the "then current" Sports figure is $10 under the card. If $54.99 were the ongoing price, Sports would cost $54.99 times 12, or $659.88 a year, and $82.99 minus $54.99, or $28.00 a month. That is another $336.00 across 12 bills, tying Entertainment, and it would replace the "$18 lower" line, because $82.99 minus $64.99 is $18. The table keeps $64.99, the figure on the card, in the FAQ, and in the February blog. The cart is where those two readings get resolved.
What the November 16 price cut covers
The footnote says the offer ends November 16, 2026, which is 40 days after October 7. After the promotional period, you pay the then-current rate. The page does not say whether a signup this week keeps the lower price only through November 16, or for a fixed number of months after it. Variety's three-month and 12-month clocks belonged to the February deals. Some card prices have changed, so those clocks stay with the old offer.
Where a card shows both a regular price and a lower price, the gap is the regular price minus the lower one:
| Plan | Regular monthly | Lower price on the card | Monthly gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main | $82.99 | $59.99 | $23.00 |
| Sports + News | $71.99 | $49.99 | $22.00 |
| Entertainment | $54.99 | $44.99 | $10.00 |
| News + Entertainment | $62.99 | $52.99 | $10.00 |
| News + Entertainment + Family | $69.99 | $59.99 | $10.00 |
| Sports + Entertainment + Family | $77.99 | $62.99 | $15.00 |
The Sports card showed $64.99 and no second price. Sports + News shows that this offer is not the February one: the new-user price then was $56.99 for three months, and the card now shows $49.99. These gaps stay monthly. YouTube has not said how many bills the lower price covers, so a times-12 saving would invent a length.
Every plan in the current FAQ includes unlimited cloud DVR, recordings kept for 9 months, up to six accounts, and up to three streams at once. Multiview is listed at up to four streams. Yang said NFL Sunday Ticket, HBO Max, and 4K Plus remain paid add-ons. Local channels follow your ZIP code, and YouTube asks for at least 3 Mbps. The $28 gap is the channel lineup. Those DVR terms are shared across the rows above.
Verdict: If you can skip the sports networks, Entertainment is the largest cut the matching numbers support: $28 a month, and $336 across 12 bills, at the $54.99 card price. If you want the lowest upper bound per channel, the $82.99 main plan still leads, at $0.83. Check Sports in the cart before you rely on either figure. The page prints both $64.99 and $54.99, and those readings are $120 apart over a year, because $10 times 12 is $120.
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