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TL;DR YouTube TV and Disney recently worked out their coverage dispute.
In announcing the resolution, Disney referenced the service’s “genre-based channel packages.”
Right now there’s really only sports and Spanish bundles, hinting at the possibility of more.
YouTube TV subscribers collectively let out a sigh of relief over the weekend, as the streaming service and Disney resolved their dispute and settled on a contract, restoring access to Disney-owned channels for YTTV viewers. In announcing the resolution, Disney shared a few details about how its content would be available on YouTube TV across the next several years — and in doing so, might just be teasing some upcoming changes to how you subscribe to that content.
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Right now, YouTube TV offers its base package, plus your choice of a few add-on options. Sports fans can go with NFL Sunday Ticket or the NFL RedZone with Sports Plus package, adding 14 extra channels. The Entertainment Plus bundle includes HBO, Paramount, and STARZ. And there’s a Spanish Plus bundle with over a dozen more channels of its own.
Beyond those, you can add a couple dozen different channels à la carte, just choosing the ones you want, but right now these are your only options so far as add-on channel bundles go.
In announcing the YouTube TV deal, Disney mentioned we’d get “some Disney networks added to genre-based channel packages,” and as 9to5Google points out, that sounds like it might be a reference to something new.
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