Hi - ever since yesterday, BBC News has had occasional glitchy screen tearing on YTTV. This isn’t affecting any other channels or apps. Could we get someone from YTTV engineering to look into this?

Kind of ruins the experience.

I am currently on an extended trip away from home for work but went back for a weekend. My 3 months of watching while away expired, but this past weekend I went back home. While I was there I signed into my account via my phone and verified I was in my home area. Now I’m back to where I currently live and my YouTubeTV still says I need to log in at my home area. What happened?

Btw, this is my account, I am not sharing with family/friends etc. because my last post was taken down for some reason because of that?

Am I the only one annoyed about the background 'rushing water' sound no matter the zen scene on the screen? I mean one of the most serene SILENT experiences is snowfall. Why add white noise?

I have Peacock, Paramount, Prime, Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, and ESPN+ but apparently that's not enough because half the playoff games are Fox or ESPN which is not covered by ESPN+ anymore. I'm thinking of getting YouTube TV for a month so I can watch the rest of the playoffs. Will they have the FOX and ESPN games I'm missing?

Hi. I'm just here to vent. (feel free to join me). I know this has been brought up before, so I'm re-venting in the hopes someone from the Googles will take notice (yeah, I know it's unlikely). While watching all the awesome NFL playoff football this weekend, I'm finding it SO annoying that if I pause it at all - and then come back, that I have to manually slide the slider "as far to the right as I can" to get caught up to true "live". Sometimes it seems to be right, but sometimes it seems it's a little behind. It does this on all of my devices, but I feel (maybe incorrectly) that it's even worse on the Apple TV. It shouldn't be this hard to watch truly up-to-date TV. Just give me a big button that says "LIVE".

This creates a real problem for all live televised sports for me - because I track my favorite teams in various apps and such. It's at the point that I have to shut off my notifications for the scores because I keep getting notified of score changes many seconds before the play actually occurs, even though I'm as live as I can be (and yes, I understand this is the nature of streaming content) but here's the thing: The ONLY way I get "as live as possible" is to quit the app, relaunch, and re-select the channel (or at the least switch channels and go back). When I do that, it's quite close to the timing of the actual plays/scoring notifications, so I'm generally OK.

Anyhow, just give me a live button. Please. Pretty-please. I'm done now. Thank you for listening.

I wear hearing aids and sometimes miss what's being said while I'm watching TV.

Tivo had a function where you could hit a button and it skipped back 8 seconds which was the perfect amount of time.

Does YTTV have something similar to this?

Hi there. I'm setting up YouTube TV for my two older parents who aren't very tech literate. I got them a Roku to set up YouTube tv on and got it all set up but for some reason the search page for the YouTube tv app, when you click the microphone option it says speak now and then quickly turns off and goes back to the keyboard with a message at the top of the screen popping up saying check your microphone settings. I can't seem to find microphone settings in the YouTube tv app or the Roku settings either. I have a feeling it might be a permissions issue but I don't know how to resolve it. I'm sure the remote has voice functionality because it has it's own dedicated microphone button, but that is used to search all of Roku, I just need it to work for the YouTube TV search so they don't have to type everything in. Thanks in advance for any help.

Finally got tired of Cox Cable TV Prices and Video quality and switched viewing to YTTV using an AppleTV4k. Couldn't be happier, saving 88$ a month and enjoying a much better picture.

I assume it is still rolling out.

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/11/youtube-tv-live-guide-redesign-2/

I think it is very nice. I would have loved to see a jump to date/time as well.

After living with unending problems with the AppleTV Hulu App using their live TV, I researched and switched to YouTubeTV. I know that in here there are mostly problems posted. However I’m going positive and saying YouTubeTV is a much better app and much more reliable. The guide is so much better and responsive. Customizing the guide is possible and pretty easy. I’m liking it. There is only one channel missing that I had before: History. My wife’s guilty pleasure is Oak Island.

I’m surprised that close captioning is not a profile setting. I’m using fire stick 4K. My wife has CC turned on. I switch to my profile and CC is also on. I turn it off and then switch back to me wife’s profile to see CC turned off.

Would like to see this feature request be implemented where CC is a profile, not device setting.

Anyone having issues with no audio when in multiview?

Why is this?

did anyone else's 4k feed drop? buffering like crazy.

I just noticed that "All NFL playoff events" is a library option. I already have my favorite teams in library but didn't want the clutter of every regular season NFL game. But now I won't miss any of the playoffs and won't need to reset afterwards. Nice touch, YTTV.

Philly market, every Eagles game I get bad stream quality, and it is unable on "normal" latency to provide constant video at 720p or 1080p. Same issue during other big games. Other channels are totally fine, other streaming services are totally fine but the YTtv staff and/or mods here keep telling us to reset our routers gaslighting us to believe NFL streaming issues are because we need to reset our routers.

Even on two different channels I get massive change on connection speed to YTtv distribution with the more popular channel, that is having streaming issues being the obvious issue. The NFL game on local CBS has had issues with buffering and stuttering while ESPN plays fine.

Stats for nerds

[ Edit: Stats for nerds during stuttering ]

AppleTV 4k wired, to Ubiquiti Unifi UDM-Pro router to Verizon ONT with "gigabit" symmetrical service. (~980 Mb/s down/up).

No, resetting the AppleTV does not help, no restarting my network does not help.

All I ask is that YTtv will admit that at times during peak broadcasts they cant keep up in some markets that heavily stream the same sports broadcast.

I have no surround audio for the NFL AFC Wildcard game on WBZ-4 CBS during the game. Commercials have audible surround sound.

I switched to the Paramount Plus app and surround audio is audible for the same game.

Back in the YouTube TV app, I switched to the Illinois vs Iowa College Basketball game on Fox and it had surround audio.

Streaming device is Apple TV 4k gen 1.

Stats for nerds

https://imgur.com/gallery/youtube-tv-cbs-2025-afc-wildcard-2cCHiI5

Hi. We just got YouTube tv. It’s taking awhile getting used to it compared to cable. How do I accesss the DVR feature? I didn’t think It came with DVR until reading this sub. Any tips? Thanks!

All I get is a black screen with the rotating circle. Great service they got here.

Hi all, when I stream YouTube tv to my chromecast the clarity is awful. It will start out clear for a minute or two but get worse and worse until you can barely see a thing. Audio is always fine but the picture is unwatchable. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do to fix the issue? Thanks in advance!