YouTube fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket streaming
Enlarge / Fans watch a 49ers, Cardinals game on October 2. (credit: Getty)
When YouTube TV took over NFL Sunday Ticket, the key was ensuring that the experience was as good as it had been on DirecTV for the previous 29 years. For its initial seven Sundays, that was the case. But YouTube TV fumbled the ball this Sunday.
Users across social media reported suffering lag and long, repetitive buffering sessions with the streams throughout the day. There were nine NFL games playing on NFL Sunday Ticket yesterday. According to The Washington Post, subscribers were having problems "well into the second half of games."
YouTube acknowledged the problems via its TeamYouTube X account, saying, "If you're experiencing buffering issues on YouTube our team is aware and working on a fix. YouTube TV or NFL Sunday Ticket may also be impacted. we'll follow-up here once this has been resolved." However, the social media account hasn't provided an update as of this writing.