Of course, the original appeal to services like YouTube TV was as a cost-cutting measure over traditional cable television packages.
Those at YouTube TV are, obviously, aware of this, and are surely hoping that cutting prices by $10 a month if they lose NBCUniversal stations will be enough to keep their subscribers on board.
But, because agreements for streaming service bundles haven’t yet become reliably profitable in ways companies can predict, it’s meant that setting thorough channel lineups for the long haul has steadily led to price increases, which are beginning to rival the costs of cable.