YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s
main Google Internet business, plans to launch a paid subscription
service called Unplugged that would offer customers a bundle of cable
TV channels streamed over the Internet, as Bloomberg reported.
This project would make its debut in
2017, Bloomberg said citing a number of sources who know about this
plan.
YouTube executives have discussed these
plans with most major media companies, including Comcast Corp.’s
NBCUniversal, Viacom Inc., Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. and CBS
Corp., but have yet to secure any rights, said the people, who asked
not to be identified because the talks are private.
Comcast, the Twenty-First Century Fox
and Viacom could not be reached to comment on the plan, while the
Alphabet and CBS refused to testify.
According to Reuters, YouTube already
offers 9.99 US dollars per month for the subscription fee of the
service is called YouTube Red in the United States that makes the
viewers to watch videos uninterrupted ad.
