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I maintain that YouTube TV is the very best of the streaming TV services, but good grief is it getting expensive. Today YouTube announced<\/a> the service\u2019s latest price hike, which brings the monthly subscription to $82.99. The change is effective immediately, and as usual, the company attributes this increase to \u201cthe rising cost of content.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n YouTube TV last raised its subscription cost to $72.99<\/a> in March 2023. Before that, it was $64.99. The days when the service ran only $50<\/a> now feel like a lifetime ago. Some of you who got in early might even remember it costing a mere $35 per month<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But since then, YouTube has routinely found itself in carriage disputes with Disney, NBCUniversal, and other content owners, and those renegotiated agreements have led YouTube TV\u2019s price to climb higher and higher. The YouTube TV of today is much different than it used to be; there are more channels, yes, but the service has also shed a number of regional sports networks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The company is quick to note that none of the service\u2019s core benefits are changing. The base subscription still includes over 100 channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, up to six user accounts per household, and the flexibility of three concurrent streams. But YouTube TV still charges extra for 4K streaming, which seems harder to rationalize after this $10 price bump. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n