YouTube TV’s multiview characteristic is now customizable

Since its launch final spring, YouTube TV’s multiview performance has been an enormous quality-of-life enchancment for sports activities followers. You need to use it to look at a number of video games concurrently with out making area for additional TVs — however till now, you can solely watch the predetermined units of video games that YouTube thinks would attraction to most viewers. An incoming replace adjustments that, lastly letting you customise multiview along with your most popular mixture of broadcasts, as noticed by 9to5Google.

Whereas a giant enchancment over the curated multiview feeds YouTube TV launched with, it sounds such as you’re nonetheless certain by sure limitations. As an illustration, though you’ll be able to construct your individual bundle of particular video games, you’ll be able to nonetheless solely select them from a predetermined record, based on a report from Cordcutters Information.

Google spokesperson Allison Toh confirmed the rollout in an electronic mail to The Verge, noting it’s at present solely out there for NBA League Go and males’s and ladies’s NCAA basketball. “We hope to progressively carry this to extra dwell sports activities over the following few months,” Toh wrote.

I’m hoping these lists will ultimately include all video games at present airing inside their respective sport or league. As of this writing, nonetheless, YouTube TV’s assist website nonetheless alludes to various regional broadcast variations and server-side assets that restrict what’s potential.

My final dream could be to construct a multiview of video games from any sport or any channel (Sunday Ticket could be good for the 2024 NFL season, only a thought!), however for now, I’ll take all the child steps I can get.