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Last year, ahead of March Madness and NFL Sunday Ticket launching on YouTube TV, the company started testing out Multiview. This is a way that you can watch up to four games at the same time. The tests during the NCAA Tournament went well, and it rolled out to everyone shortly thereafter.
But, one of the big gripes that YouTube TV users have had is that you cannot customize what games are available in Multiview. YouTube TV picks and chooses for you. However, it looks like that is about to change.
A Reddit user found a new option in Multiview on YouTube TV called “Build a multiview” that would allow them to select three other games to add to their Multiview set up. The user also noted that this appeared to be limited to other NBA games only.
YouTube hasn’t come out and said that they are testing this feature now, and the Reddit user believes that this might just be a UI upgrade and not the customizable feature that we’ve all been waiting for. Nevertheless, this is a step in the right direction here.
What is YouTube TV Multiview?
YouTube TV’s Multiview is really what it sounds like. The ability to watch up to four games at the same time. You can get the audio from a single game at a time, but actually watch three additional ones. This is really useful during busy sports times, like Saturdays in College Football and Sundays in the NFL. Or during March Madness with the many conference tournaments as well as the NCAA Tournament.
The feature was originally added for NFL Sunday Ticket, which Google picked up last year, and went live this past August for the 2023 season. But it’s really useful to have for other sports, too, even though YouTube TV has lost plenty of sports over the past few years. First, they lost the Fox Sports RSNs (Now Bally Sports), and then they lost the MLB Network last year. YouTube TV users are basically down to national games on a slew of channels, and that’s it.