YouTube TV has a good reputation among customers and has been able to leverage that reputation to a huge audience compared to its competitors. No other live TV streaming service has more than 5 million publicly reported customers, while YouTube TV claimed 8 million in February 2024. I signed up for YouTube TV this week to see what all the fuss is about, and you can read my first impressions of the controls here!

My first impressions of YouTube TV:

Balanced channel inventory

Somewhat confusing lawsuit

Simplified user experience

You get what you pay for

How is YouTube TV’s DVR?

Final thoughts

Balanced channel inventory

One of the best reasons to give YouTube TV a try is the availability of the best cable channels on the service. A basic YouTube TV subscription comes with 32 of the top 35 cable networks from The Streamable,…