YouTube TV Plans launch this week from $55/month with $65 Sports Plan 

After teasing in December, “YouTube TV Plans” are rolling out this week as cheaper alternatives to paying $82.99 per month for over 100 channels.

YouTube TV will offer genre-specific bundles. For example, the Sports Plan is $64.99/month (or $54.99/month for one year if you’re a new user). It includes the major broadcasters, all ESPN networks, ESPN Unlimited (coming this fall), FS1, and NBC Sports Network, or about 35 channels.

If you don’t care about live sports, there’s an Entertainment Plan at $54.99/month (or $44.99/month for three months for new users). This gets you the major broadcasters and content “ranging from FX dramas to Hallmark classics, with channels such as Comedy Central, Bravo, Paramount, Food Network, HGTV, and many more.”

There are also bundles:

• News + Entertainment + Family Plan ($69.99/month, or $59.99/month for new users**): For $13 lower than the main plan, bundle your news and entertainment with content for families, such as Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Cartoon Network, PBS Kids, and more.
• Sports + News Plan ($71.99/month, or $56.99/month for new users**): Priced $11 lower than the main YouTube TV plan, get everything in the Sports Plan plus your national news, with networks such as CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, in addition to CSPAN, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.

** for the first 3 months

YouTube TV today just previewed four offerings, with “10+ plans” in total. The main plan with 138~ channels at $82.99 remains available.

All YouTube TV Plans come with existing features like unlimited DVR, multiview, key sports plays, and up to six members on one account. You can subscribe to add-ons (NFL Sunday Ticket + RedZone, HBO Max, 4K Plus, etc.) a la carte.

YouTube TV will offer a recommendation tool that has you pick what you’re interested in watching to see what Plan fits.

The launch of YouTube TV Plans is starting this week and will continue “over the next several weeks.”