YouTube TV, which offers cable-free live television, today announced it now offers local network affiliates covering over 98% of the U.S., allowing consumers in smaller cities to cut the cord and still keep good reception from most local, over-the-air stations.

Since launching almost two years ago, YouTube TV has gradually added local stations from most metro areas, but many smaller markets were not covered. Effective today, YouTube TV adds most local ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and some independent stations in these areas:

• Alabama: Dothan, Montgomery-Selma
• Alaska: Anchorage, Fairbanks
• Arkansas: Jonesboro, Monroe-El Dorado
• California: Bakersfield, Chico-Reading, Eureka, Monterey-Salinas, Palm Springs, Yuma-El Centro
• Colorado: Grand Junction
• Florida: Panama City, Tallahassee-Thomasville
• Georgia: Albany, Augusta-Aiken, Gainesville, Macon
• Idaho: Boise, Idaho Falls-Pocatello, Twin Falls
• Indiana: Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Lafayette, Terre Haute
• Illinois: Peoria-Bloomington, Rockford
• Iowa: Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, Ottumwa-Kirksville, Sioux City
• Kansas: Topeka
• Louisiana: Alexandria, Lake Charles
• Maine: Bangor, Presque Isle
• Massachusetts: Springfield-Holyoke
• Michigan: Lansing, Marquette, Traverse City
• Minnesota: Duluth-Superior, Mankato, Rochester-Mason City-Austin
• Mississippi: Biloxi-Gulfport, Columbus-Tupelo, Greenwood-Greenville, Meridian
• Missouri: Columbia-Jefferson City, Joplin-Pittsburg, St. Joseph
• Montana: Billings, Butte-Bozeman, Great Falls, Missoula
• Nebraska: Lincoln, North Platte
• Nevada: Reno
• New York: Binghamton, Elmira-Corning, Utica, Watertown
• North Carolina: Wilmington
• North Dakota: Fargo, Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston)
• Ohio: Bowling Green, Lima
• Oregon: Bend, Eugene, Medford-Klamath Falls
• Pennsylvania: Erie, Johnstown-Altoona
• South Carolina: Myrtle Beach
• South Dakota: Rapid City, Sioux Falls
• Texas: Amarillo, Beaumont-Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Lubbock, Odessa-Midland, San Angelo-Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo, Sherman-Ada, Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches), Wichita Falls
• Virginia: Charlottesville, Harrisonburg
• Washington: Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick
• West Virginia: Bluefield-Beckley-Oak, Clarksburg-Weston, Parkersburg, Wheeling-Steubenville
• Wisconsin: La Crosse, Wausau-Rhinelander
• Wyoming: Cheyenne-Scottsbluff

Additional small markets will be added later.

YouTube TV offers over 60 networks, on-demand programming, cloud DVR service with no storage limit and unlimited simultaneous recordings, up to six personal accounts (three simultaneous stream limit), for $40 a month.