James McQuivey says, “Watch out, cable TV. Today YouTube shared it’s newest subscription service — YouTube TV — with a hundred or so journalists at a live event at the company’s headquarters. This is different from YouTube Red, the subscription version of YouTube enjoyed by at least 1.5 million people and focuses mostly on ad-free access to short-form videos along with a few exclusives. Instead, this new service is aimed squarely at pay TV. It does so by offering three things that cable TV has previously been best at:

  1. Live TV. YouTube announced deals with the major broadcasters — CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox — as well as a slew of cable programmers. Like with earlier over-the-top (OTT) TV providers Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, the content can be watched live, on an Android or Chrome device, or on a TV via a Chromecast and one assumes other devices soon enough.
  2. Cloud DVR. This is the new thing that all OTT TV services specialize in and some traditional cable packages — like Xfinity from Comcast — also offer”.

YouTube Is The First Digital Platform To Take On Live TV

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