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YouTube TV is cutting three channels from its lineup at the end of the month. Before subscribers panic, here is the part the announcement buries. None of these channels is actually disappearing from the internet. Starting September 30, Court TV, Tastemade and The Young Turks will no longer be available on Google’s streaming service. All three remain easy to find elsewhere, and in most cases they stay completely free. The change amounts to a nudge to look somewhere else rather than an actual loss.
What the removal actually includes
The company notified customers by email. Both live content and anything recorded to a personal library from the three channels will disappear once the removal takes effect. The cut also sweeps up two add on offerings, Tastemade EspaƱol from the Spanish Plus package and Tastemade in 4K from the 4K Plus tier. YouTube TV noted that members can still watch select content from all three channels on the main YouTube platform.
What each departing channel actually offers
The three channels serve very different audiences. Tastemade is a food and lifestyle network built for home cooks, focused on exploring new cuisines and kitchen skills. Court TV launched in 1991 under lawyer and journalist Steven Brill, building its name on wall to wall coverage of major courtroom cases before shifting toward prime time true crime programming. The Young Turks grew out of Cenk Uygur’s public access show in the 1990s. It later became a satellite radio staple and now focuses on current events and political commentary.
Where you can still watch these channels
This is the useful part. Each channel lives on across several other services. Tastemade streams on Prime Video, DIRECTV, Fubo, Philo and Sling TV, along with free platforms including The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus and Xumo. Court TV remains available on DIRECTV and Fubo, and it streams free on Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Tubi.
The Young Turks may be the easiest of all to keep up with, since its programming streams free on its own YouTube channel. In other words, a subscriber losing all three on YouTube TV can replace every one of them without paying a cent.
Why this keeps happening
Channel removals like this have become a routine feature of live TV streaming. Services and networks negotiate carriage deals that eventually expire. When the terms no longer make sense for one side, channels rotate out. For subscribers, the practical takeaway is that the lineup you sign up for is never truly fixed. The upside this time is that the departing channels remain widely available elsewhere, so the disruption comes down to changing where you tune in rather than losing the shows themselves.
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