{"id":145076,"date":"2025-09-09T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145076\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:05:07","slug":"youtube-tv-may-move-univision-to-spanish-language-tier-in-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145076\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube TV May Move Univision to Spanish Language Tier in Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYouTube<\/a> TV finds itself in middle of another significant carriage fight, but unlike last month\u2019s dispute<\/a> with Fox Corp. around fees (which ultimately was resolved with a deal) the new dispute is about something different: Channel tiers, packaging and accessibility.<\/p>\n

\n\tTelevisaUnivision<\/a> on Tuesday went public with an ad campaign calling out YouTube TV<\/a> for the dispute, which will see the core Univision broadcast network pulled from the service\u2019s base tier and moved to a Spanish-language add-on tier beginning Sep. 30.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGoogle\u2019s proposal to remove Univision from its core offering on YouTube TV and charge its customers 18% more to access\u00a0the leader in\u00a0Spanish-language\u00a0broadcasting\u00a0is discriminatory and an abuse of its market power,\u201d a TelevisaUnivision spokesperson says. \u201cAlongside the major English-language networks, Univision is an essential part of the American mainstream.\u00a0Univision is of critical importance to millions of Hispanic Americans, something that has been recognized by every single major content distributor \u2013 except Google.\u00a0Univision is not niche \u2013 it moves America.\u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tYouTube, for its part, disputes that, saying that if the companies can\u2019t reach a deal by Sep. 30, the Univision channels will leave the platform altogether.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTelevisaUnivision\u2019s demands aren\u2019t supported by their performance on YouTube TV over the last four years,\u201d a YouTube spokesperson says. \u201cIf we cannot reach a fair deal by September 30th, their programming will no longer be available on YouTube TV. Our carriage decisions are based on viewer consumption and pricing, and any suggestion to the contrary is false.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTypically, carriage disputes are about some combination of money and accessibility. After all, every channel owner wants as much cash as possible, and as many subscribers as possible. However, distributors have been moving toward more package offerings, trying to slim down core bundles, with more customizable add-ons and tweaks.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnivision is a major broadcast network, but it is also a Spanish-language network, which underscores the complicated moves at play. In order to subscribe to the Spanish-language tier, YouTube TV subscribers need a base tier first. This effectively raises the cost to get Univision, while also limiting its access to a subsection of subscribers. Of course, Spanish language programming (including from TelevisaUnivision) is easily accessible on the main, free YouTube platform, though that does not include the linear channels at the heart of the dispute.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the ad spot, Univision calls the move a \u201cHispanic tax,\u201d and references YouTube owner Google\u2019s original \u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d mantra by urging the distributor to \u201cdo the right thing, otherwise, this looks evil.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDistributors, of course, are working to segment every niche offering, and splitting Spanish-language from English is a move that has been discussed for some time. TelevisaUnivision, however, is helped by the fact that its recent deals, including with Hulu with Live TV and DirecTV, keep Univision in the core bundle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube TV finds itself in middle of another significant carriage fight, but unlike last month\u2019s dispute with Fox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,11126,92,9280,72175],"class_list":{"0":"post-145076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-televisaunivision","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-youtube","12":"tag-youtube-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}