YouTube TV is typically stingy when it comes to free trials, and significant discounts are even harder to come by outside of seasonal deals. That’s why this new and relatively generous YouTube TV offer grabbed our attention.
Available now and running through mid-March, YouTube TV’s new deal gets you a 10-day free trial for the live TV streaming, more than triple the length of the standard three-day trial.
Once the 10-day free trial is over, you can get two months of YouTube TV for $59.99 a month, a $23-per-month discount versus the usual YouTube TV price of $82.99 a month.
The beauty of the deal is that you don’t have to pay for the two discounted months of YouTube TV if you don’t want to. If you like, you can just grab the 10 days of free access and then cancel before the charges kick in.
There are a couple of caveats to the new YouTube TV deal: you’ll need to enter a payment method even if you only intend on using the 10-day free trial, and you must be a new YouTube TV subscriber.
If you’re interested in grabbing the offer, don’t wait too long; the discount expires on March 17.
The YouTube TV deal gets you access to the YouTube TV Base Plan, which includes your local network TV affiliates as well as such basic-cable mainstays as ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, AMC, CNBC, CNN, Bravo, Fox News, IFC, NBC News Now, TNT, and more. In all, more than 140 channels are on tap.
The YouTube TV Base Plan also boasts unlimited DVR storage, plus access to add-on channels such as AMC+, HBO Max, Fox Nation, MGM+, Paramount+ with Showtime, and Starz.
While you can grab the YouTube TV bundle now, we’re still awaiting details on the cheaper “genre-specific” bundles that are slated to arrive later this year.
More than 10 of the so-called “skinny” channel bundles are coming to YouTube TV, including a sports bundle that packs ESPN Unlimited, FS1, and the NBC Sports network.
YouTube TV hasn’t given us many details about its upcoming bundles, but they’re expected to be much cheaper than the standard $82.99-a-month base plan.
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Author: Ben Patterson, Senior Writer, TechHive
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