Why is my YouTube TV playing in Spanish?

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Google’s virtual MVPD service, YouTube TV, is making an effort to diversify its programming selection by adding a new Spanish language programming tier.

The tier, which includes over 28 different channels, including ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes and Discovery en Espanol, among others.

The service will give subscribers who want Spanish language content two options. If the subscriber already has an existing YouTube TV base plan, which costs $64.99 per month, they can add Spanish Plus for $14.99 to receive the channels.

However, it is not necessary to subscribe to the base plan to receive Spanish channels. Subscribers interested in just Spanish-language content can subscribe to the Spanish Plan for $34.99, which does not require a base plan.

While over 37 million Latinos in the U.S. speak Spanish, YouTube TV largely ignored the community since the platform’s launch in 2017. YouTube TV did not offer Univision, Unimas and Telemundo, the largest Spanish language broadcast networks in the U.S., until last year. Meanwhile all three YouTube TV competitors, including Sling, DIRECTV Stream and FuboTV, all offer some level of Spanish language programming.

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Even with the additions, some followers of Liga MX, North America’s most popular soccer league, may be disappointed. TUDN, Univision’s full-time sports network, is not included in the package. In addition, Spanish Plan subscribers will not have access to Telemundo, unless they subscribe to the $64.99 base plan.

This is just the latest move from Neal Mohan, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer, to give subscribers more flexibility and choice.

“We’re also doing more around either content-vertical type bundles or even feature type bundles. You saw that with the 4K bundle on YouTube TV,” he told Nilay Patel of The Verge. “So we’re trying to bring more choice to our users. And a lot of it is, frankly, just driven by the feedback that we hear from YouTube TV users. There’s not another any price hike or anything in the near term.”

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YouTube TV today added TUDN, the channel formerly known as Univision Deportes. It’s a Spanish-language channel and is the primary home of Liga MX — the top Mexican professional league — and as well as the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

You’ll also find select matches from the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, as well as the Mexican National Team, and various MLS games.

Why is my YouTube TV playing in Spanish?

TUDN is available now as part of the base YouTube TV plan, which costs $65 a month. It’s also available as part of the separate “Spanish Plan,” which costs $35 a month (it’s $25 for the first six months, though) and doesn’t require the base YouTube TV plan.

If you have your YouTube TV channels sorted in a custom order, you’ll need to manually turn on TUDN — it should be at the bottom of your list.

You’ll also be able to watch World Cup 2022 from Qatar on YouTube TV, with all the matches being shown live on Fox or FS1. Matches begin on November 20, with the U.S. opening the following day.

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In addition to the aforementioned Spanish Plan, YouTube TV also has a large number of optional add-ons, including one that gets you some live content — sports, mostly — in 4K resolution. There are also a number of on-demand shows available with the $20-a-month 4K Plus package.

There’s also a dedicated Sports Plus package, various other networks like STARZ, Showtime, and Cinemax, and an additional Spanish Plus plan that adds additional Spanish-language channels.

Let's GOAAAL! @TUDNUSA is officially part of your YouTube TV lineup, and just in time to send off El Tri on November 9. https://t.co/iwSrUjavze pic.twitter.com/lUyXUJ6Idy

— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) October 27, 2022

YouTube TV is the most popular live streaming service in the U.S., with more than 5 million subscribers as of July 2022. And that number almost certainly has grown since then. Google on October 26, 2022, announced in its third-quarter earnings call that “subscriber growth in YouTube Music Premium and YouTube TV continued to drive ongoing strong growth in YouTube non-advertising revenues.” In other words, folks are still signing up, and YouTube TV and YouTube continue to bring in money. Exactly how many more accounts have signed up since the summer remains a mystery, though, as Google does not routinely give updates on subscriber totals.

For context, Hulu With Live TV is the closest competitor at 4 million subscribers, followed by Sling TV at 2.2 million, and FuboTV at 1.22 million.

YouTube TV is available on every major streaming platform, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, Android TV, Apple TV, in web browsers, on various smart TVs, and on gaming consoles.

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How do you turn off Spanish on YouTube TV?

YouTube on TV.
Click the Settings. on the YouTube on TV app..
Scroll to the “Language & Location” section..
Select Language..
Click Edit ..
Scroll to your selected language..
Click Confirm Change..

How do I get my YouTube back to English?

Click your profile picture ..
Click Language or Location..
Click the language or location you'd like to use..

Why is my YouTube playing in a different language?

Open the YouTube for TV app. Sign in if you have not done so. Scroll down and open Settings, it should be the option with the gear icon. Scroll down until you reach Language and select it.

Why is my YouTube speaking Spanish?

If you're using the new version of YouTube on desktop, you can click Language (instead of Settings) at the bottom of the profile drop-down menu and then select a language from there.