Mets fans you subscribed to YouTube TV just to watch their favorite team were hit with a nasty surprise this week: YouTube TV is losing SportsNet New York, the regional network that plays the Mets games that aren’t broadcast nationally. YouTube said they couldn’t reach an agreement with SNY but hope to in the future. For now, all YouTube TV subscribers will lose access to SNY on July 1.
In order to catch every Mets game, you’ll have to subscribe to a different live TV streaming service. Thankfully Fubo, one of the best ones out there, still has SNY. Read on to see how to stream Mets games once you quit YouTube TV.
Fubo is a live TV streaming service that’s great for sports. They have SNY, as well as tons of other regional sports networks like Bally Sports and NBC Sports. The base plan for Fubo costs $75 per month and includes 160 channels. You can upgrade to the Elite package for $85 per month, and that includes 232 channels and 4K streams. There is even a seven-day FuboTV free trial you can use to catch a few games and see how you like the service. It’s worth remembering that if a Mets game is being broadcast on a national channel, then SNY won’t have it. You won’t have to worry about that with Fubo, as it has the national networks too.
If you’re not in the U.S., you may need to use a VPN to get Fubo. It’s very simple and very cheap. We recommend NordVPN as the best VPN for streaming and the best VPN overall. Just grab the standard plan, currently $4 per month when you commit to a two-year subscription. Once you sign up, simply connect to a server in the U.S. (there’s even one in New York), then got to SNY via FuboTV like you’re right in Queens.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.