YouTube TV Is Dropping Court TV, Tastemade and The Young Turks on September 30

YouTube TV has emailed subscribers to say that Court TV, Tastemade and The Young Turks leave the service on 30 September 2026. The base plan stays at $82.99 a month, so this is three channels gone at the same price — and anything you recorded from them disappears from your Library on the same day.

The notice is unusually specific about what goes with them. Two add-on feeds are included in the removal: Tastemade Español, which is part of the Spanish Plus package, and Tastemade in 4K, which is part of 4K Plus. Subscribers paying extra for either add-on lose a channel from it without the add-on price changing.

What exactly is going away on 30 September?

The email tells subscribers that from 30 September the three channels “will no longer be available on YouTube TV”, and that this covers “live content or content in your Library that you may have recorded from these channels”.

• Court TV — live trial coverage and prime-time true crime, on the air since 1991.
• Tastemade — food and lifestyle programming, plus the Spanish Plus and 4K Plus feeds.
• The Young Turks — the long-running political news and commentary channel.

The Library wipe is the part worth acting on. A DVR recording on YouTube TV is a pointer to a cloud copy the service holds, not a file on your device, so when the channel deal lapses the recordings go with it. There is no export option. If you have saved trials, episodes or segments from any of the three, watch them before the end of the month.

Is YouTube TV cutting the price to match?

No. Nothing in the notice mentions a credit, a refund or a price change, and the base plan remains $82.99 a month. YouTube TV has not said whether replacement channels are coming, and it did not give a reason for the three departures.

That silence is the sore point in subscriber threads this week, where the reaction has been less about the channels themselves than about the pattern: the lineup shrinks, the bill does not. It follows a busy few months for the service, including the arrival of ESPN Unlimited at no extra cost on the same $82.99 plan and the payout window from Disney's $50 million antitrust settlement, which closed earlier this month.

Where can you still watch Court TV, Tastemade and The Young Turks?

All three survive the cut, and in most cases for nothing. The notice itself points subscribers to YouTube, where the platform says select content from each channel stays available.

• Court TV streams free on Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Tubi, and is carried on DIRECTV and Fubo.
• Tastemade streams free on The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus and Xumo, and is carried on Prime Video, DIRECTV, Fubo, Philo and Sling TV.
• The Young Turks publishes its programming free on YouTube.

For anyone who kept YouTube TV mainly for one of these, a free ad-supported app on the same TV covers it. The catch is the DVR: free channel apps generally offer no recording, so what you gain in price you lose in time-shifting.

Should you cancel over three channels?

Probably not on its own — these are small channels, and two of the three are a tap away for free. The more useful question is what you are actually paying $82.99 for. If the answer is locals and sport, nothing here changes. If your viewing has quietly drifted to on-demand apps, this is a reasonable prompt to audit the bill, the same way the Peacock Premium bundle included with YouTube Premium made some households rethink a separate subscription.

One practical note before the deadline. If a scheduled recording on one of these channels is sitting in your Library, deleting the series rule after 30 September will not bring the episodes back. Watch first, tidy later.

Google has not published a wider lineup announcement beyond the subscriber email, and the service's recent record on outages and notices — including the blank home feed that hit YouTube apps this month — means the in-app channel list is worth checking directly rather than relying on third-hand lists.