Effective this month, YouTube TV has increased their monthly fee from $50 to $65. They've also added a few channels, but nothing of great interest to us. You can read Google's announcement here: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-tv-update
I expect Google will see a lot of subscribers cancel or pause their memberships, especially as various college conferences are suspending their fall sports programs.
Nancy and I paused our membership today. The way this works is that the pause goes into effect at the end of the current billing period, which will be September 7 for us. During the pause we will not be able to view any live programs or any programs recorded on the YouTube TV DVR. Our existing DVR recordings will be preserved, subject to the nine month DVR storage limit, for viewing when our pause expires.
We chose to pause for six months, the maximum allowed. (Four weeks is the minimum.) If we change our minds, we can reactivate our membership immediately at any time; we don't have to wait the full six months.
I think it's likely we will end up cancelling the service altogether. Or perhaps we will reactivate the service one month at a time if there is some live event that we really, really want to watch. We don't watch much live TV now, and we've been using the DVR less and less.
Some of the networks we've watched on YouTube TV are also available via other subscriptions, so we will be looking into those alternatives, too.
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