YouTube TV abruptly drops MLB Network as spring training approaches

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YouTube TV might be working to refine and improve its user experience, but like every other subscription TV service, its customers are always at risk of losing channels out of the blue. MLB Network is the latest to vanish from the service with little warning. YouTube TV emailed subscribers yesterday, giving them the heads-up that the channel would be going away... by the end of that same day. Now it's February, and MLB Network is gone.

Subscribers are raising the usual complaints, asking the right questions, and threatening to cancel. Shouldn't the monthly price go down? (Sadly, it never works that way.) Will they get things figured out by the regular season? (Maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath.)

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