![]() There’s a reason YouTube TV hiked its rates from $49.99 to $64.99 last June after adding the ViacomCBS bundle of channels, including TBS, CNN, and MLB Network. Most of its subscribers do not care about NESN or market-specific RSNs, and instead subscribe for access to popular national networks. The last specific data I saw had the rate at just under $5 in 2015.įrom YouTube TV’s perspective, paying that rate for a regional sports network doesn’t make sense. ![]() While the specific carriage fees of individual networks are a guarded secret within the industry, multiple sources said NESN most likely costs $5 or more per subscriber. Its leadership decided, as it has with several RSNs nationally, that it did not want to pay NESN’s per-subscriber fee to put a sports channel that has primarily regional appeal on its basic channel tier.īecause of the popularity of the Red Sox and Bruins, NESN has long been one of the pricier regional sports networks. So, why did YouTube TV drop NESN? Cost, primarily. (It is unclear how many subscribers the Google-owned YouTube TV has in Boston getting specific demographic data out of YouTube TV is rarer than an enjoyable trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles.) But its absence on YouTube TV - the second-most-popular streaming service after Hulu, with more than 3 million subscribers nationwide - is frustrating for Boston-area viewers who subscribed to the service when it still carried NESN. NESN is available on cable providers, as well as streaming services fuboTV and AT&T TV. “Therefore, we hope our fans will find NESN on the other cable, satellite, or streaming options available to them - the vast majority of which offer NESN currently.” “While we have initiated and had additional conversations with YouTube TV, it is clear they have no plans to return the dropped regional sports networks or add new ones to their lineup despite consumers’ preferences,’’ the spokesperson wrote in an e-mail. ![]()
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