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Gee Scott: Here’s why YouTube TV isn’t the bargain it used to be

Feb 15, 2025, 5:01 AM

Photo: The YouTube TV logo appears on a smartphone screen next to a login screen with email and pas...

The YouTube TV logo appears on a smartphone screen next to a login screen with email and password in Reno, United States, on December 15, 2024. (Photo: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

(Photo: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

YouTube TV is charging $10 more a month, bringing the monthly subscription to $83. It was a controversial move seeing that the content provider also dropped a number of channels. Initially, YouTube TV announced it was dropping Paramount, but that’s .

Even if YouTube TV maintains Paramount content, is it worth the high price? “Seattle’s Morning News” host Charlie Harger and Gee Scott of “The Gee and Ursula Show,” wondered if YouTube TV is as much of a bargain as it used to be.

“I just can’t believe how much I’m paying for YouTube TV. It used to be such a good value, and that got me in. That was the taste. And now it’s as if I could just get regular cable (for the same price),” Harger complained.

Scott blames Gen Z for convincing everyone to ditch cable in the first place. Now, consumers are left vulnerable to price hikes.

“Let me tell you what happened,” Scott explained. “Gen Z made it a point to brag and tell you, ‘We don’t watch cable. We don’t watch cable,’ right? And then all of us Gen X and Baby Boomers are looking around saying, ‘What do you mean? But you can get it all at one place, and you can get it all at one price. There’s a good deal right there.’ But Gen Z, was like, ‘Nah, get rid of it!'”

So they did. But Scott argued that led to a fragmented market, with multiple services offering only select programming, forcing consumers to subscribe to multiple platforms. And that wasn’t even the biggest factor driving up costs.

Listen to the full discussion to see why YouTube TV isn’t the bargain it used to be.

Listen to “The Gee and Ursula Show“ weekday mornings from 9 a.m.- noon on ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.

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