NBCuniversal, Disney, Apple, and now YouTube's bet against big cable announces nationwide expansion
YouTube's live TV streaming service is expanding its coverage as it continues to invest against big cable.
YouTube TV will be available in 195 markets in the U.S. The company says its service will now cover 98 percent of U.S. households.
Google hasn't disclosed subscriber numbers, but it reportedly had 800,000 paying subscribers as of July.
Provide a subpar product and be late to market. Never an innovator producing something new
That’s the AT&T way, folks!
While you guys are right in that T is not an innovator , you forget one key detail of their business , THEY OWN THE RIGHTS TO PREMIUM CONTENT. So that means they will just up the rebroadcast fees for HBO,CNN, TBS etc to all the other OTA providers then use that as leverage to gain peering deals with services like YouTube tv, Hulu Netflix etc this is an old practice in the entertainment industry.
Again Joe six-pack doesn't care as long as they key shows they want are available.
AT&T is so un-innovative and cheap/mediocre when they do try to do anything, the fact that they exist at all is proof that the markets they operate in are not truly competitive or they have been crushed by competition yearsago.
Actually DirectTV Now is really good.
AT&T is not an innovator. They are a follower. And then when they do get around to launching some product it winds up being unimaginative and mediocre done on the cheap at best. Then they wonder and bemoan the fact that the market demand isn’t there. So of course the best solution to such failure is to surplus a few more employees to irally the remaining troops and mprove morale.