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TL;DR YouTube TV has begun a limited rollout of its fully customizable multiview feature, moving away from restrictive preset channel bundles.
The new “Add to multiview” option lets users select up to four streams from categories such as sports, news, and movies.
The feature is currently account-specific and has started appearing for a small number of users in the US on both TV and mobile platforms.
YouTube TV, not to be confused with YouTube on TVs, is Google’s live streaming service that offers cable and local content. One of the great features of YouTube TV is multiview, which lets you display two to four live streams on your TV at once, with all processing handled on YouTube’s servers rather than your TV. YouTube promised a “fully customizable” multiview was coming soon, and it seems that the time is finally here.
Reddit user Chief_Wahoo_Lives reports seeing a new multiview selection process on YouTube TV. The feature now seems to include all channels, with sections for recommended, sports, news, movies, shows, and others.
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The new multiview selection process is also available to the user on mobile:
A couple of other Reddit users also mention receiving the feature in the post’s comments, indicating that a small rollout is definitely underway. However, before you get too excited, such rollouts are often account-specific and not device-specific, and they take their own sweet time to reach more users.
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