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YouTube TV, an online streaming alternative to cable television, now reaches 50% of U.S. residents after the company introduced local TV service in 14 new markets.
The latest additions allow customers to view most local ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC stations as part of their subscription. But YouTube TV has not yet signed agreements with all of those station owners, so some cities will continue to have only on-demand access to FOX network shows for the time being.
The newest cities added:
- Florida: Jacksonville (inc. Brunswick, Ga.), Tampa-St. Petersburg, Sarasota, West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce
- Kentucky: Louisville
- Maryland: Baltimore
- Massachusetts: Boston
- Nevada: Las Vegas
- Ohio: Columbus, Cincinnati
- Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
- Tennessee: Memphis, Nashville
- Texas: San Antonio
- Washington: Seattle, Tacoma
The service costs $35 a month and includes a feature-limited DVR, which in certain cases does not allow customers to fast-forward past commercials. The service also recently added two new channels to its lineup: Tennis Channel, and for Boston-area residents only: NESN, a regional sports network.
An additional 17 markets are expected to be online before the end of summer:
- Alabama: Birmingham
- California: San Diego
- Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven
- Colorado: Denver
- Indiana: Indianapolis
- Michigan: Battle Creek, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo
- Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis
- North Carolina: Triad Region (Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem), Raleigh-Durham
- Ohio: Akron, Cleveland
- Oklahoma: Oklahoma City
- Pennsylvania: Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, York
- Texas: Austin
- Utah: Salt Lake City
- Virginia: Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth
- Wisconsin: Milwaukee
So – what’s the matter with New York state?
Yep. I was just thinking. Thanks Google, for screwing over Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester.
The other streaming services seemed to be ignoring upstate NY as well. Not sure why.
Upstate NY has cities that are too far apart for everyone to be covered, but close enough that the stations argue over who has what turf. Utica is lacking some major networks, in a place like Ithaca there is the question of whether we should get Syracuse or Binghamton stations on cable, etc. The long and short of it is that because of these disputes, anybody who is in a place where they would need to stream a local station is in a disputed area and won’t get service anyway. Also, Upstate NY is used to being left out. For… Read more »