YouTube TV makes for a pretty solid cable replacement, but if you’ve switched to Google’s service from traditional TV offerings, you’ve probably noticed C-SPAN and its spin-off networks have been missing since launch. Starting today, that’s finally changing.
C-SPAN — along with C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3 — are now streaming on YouTube TV, providing subscribers with its trademark gavel-to-gavel coverage of ongoing events happening inside the US Congress. This launch follows an agreement between Google and C-SPAN in September, which saw YouTube TV agree to pay the same fee as traditional cable companies to carry all three networks on the service.
Despite the deal, this shouldn’t result in its own price hike, as C-SPAN’s fee is just 87 cents per year per subscriber. Disney struck a similar agreement with C-SPAN for its own cable-esque services (Fubo and Hulu with Live TV) at the same time, though the channels have yet to launch on those services.
It’s a big win for C-SPAN, which continues to air largely uncensored and unmoderated coverage of ongoing meetings in both the House and Senate in the US. As cordcutting has become more of a default state, C-SPAN finding a way to find audiences on new services should help guarantee the network — which is publicly funded and airs without ads — continues to air for years to come.
You can now find all three networks by searching YouTube TV. If you’re scrolling through the platform’s live guide, the C-SPAN block of channels is located in the news block, alongside channels like CNN and Fox News.
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