DCDeac
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The real problem I had with watching the Notre Dame game on Peacock was that you can't easily flip back and forth to any other game. Thus, I stopped watching the Notre Dame game.
Yeah this is the problem - customers don't want this. Everyone hated paying $100+/month for a massive bundle of channels they didn't want. Direct streaming services like Peacock, Universal, HBO, etc. - they exist to let you out of the bundled channels live TV world if you so desire. Then aggregators like YTTV fill the traditional bundled channel role.
It makes no sense to force customers of a YTTV/Sling provider to buy and subscribe to a direct streaming service as well. But Peacock is a huge failure, so they're picking on the most successful provider and trying to strong-arm them into essentially forcing their customers to subscribe to Peacock.
Google's response - we'll save you $10 a month and feel free to use half of it to sign up for Peacock - is pretty hard to find issue with. I really hope they don't cave, and also hope customers understand what's going on and continue to support YTTV and ignore Peacock like they've been doing.