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According to a report from Protocol, YouTube TV is working on a new feature called “Mosaic Mode”, which would allow users to watch multiple channels at the same time. The feature is basically picture-in-picture and would allow subscribers to watch up to four channels in a grid. Which, YouTube TV is calling “Mosaic Mode”. That may or may not be what it is called when the feature gets rolled out.
This is a feature that has been much requested by YouTube TV customers. Especially sports fans, and with the NFL season and College Football season getting ready to kickoff in a couple weeks, now would be a great time to roll it out.
Currently, FuboTV is the only live TV streaming service that offers this feature, in what they call “Multi-View”. FuboTV has since expanded to include “FanView” which would offer stats and scores while you’re watching picture-in-picture mode. So you can truly stay up-to-date with everything that’s happening.
It’s the least YouTube TV could do for sports fans
Right now, sports fans are not to happy with YouTube TV. That is because they were originally set as the cord-cutting destination for sports. Then lost almost all of its regional sports networks. Now that is out of their control, as Sinclair bought the Fox Sports RSNs from Disney, and effectively removed them from YouTube TV and Hulu (and soon DIRECTV STREAM), so they could create their own streaming service, Bally Sports Plus.
So now, sports fans are stuck with national games only. With ESPN and FS1/FS2 available, and that’s mostly it. Unless you happen to live in a market that has an RSN that’s not from Sinclair. So adding this picture-in-picture mode would be the least that YouTube TV could do for its users. It’s likely that this mode would be added to either the 4K Plus or Sports add-on. More likely the sports add-on, since it’s really geared towards sports.