Manage your home area or current playback expanse

When y'all sign upwards for YouTube TV, yous'll be asked to share your habitation zip lawmaking. We may also ask you to confirm your location via your device location permissions. This requirement is to make sure you lot get access to the correct networks in your location.

What you tin can watch and record on YouTube TV is based on your habitation area:

  • Watch programs aired over affiliate networks in your location.
  • When y'all travel outside of your home surface area, you tin't watch local networks airing in your home area. You can run into local programs in the location yous travel to, but y'all can't record anything outside of your domicile area.

Learn more near location requirements and how to alter your location below.

Tips for watching sports in your surface area:

  • Baseball, basketball, and hockey games generally air over regional sports networks (RSNs). Add together your favorite teams, leagues, or games to your library so they'll record whenever they air.
  • Football generally arrogance over local affiliate networks. You can watch NFL games which air over local networks in your current physical location, regardless of whether this matches the habitation area on your business relationship. Yous can't record any NFL games exterior of your dwelling house area.
  • Acquire more about how to lookout man and tape sports here.

New members

Confirm your home expanse when signing upward

YouTube Boob tube needs to ostend your home area for a few reasons:

  1. Content owners place restrictions on which types of content tin be shown in which locations. Certain content is only bachelor in specific areas, per requirements from our content partners. Learn more than virtually viewing restrictions on YouTube TV.
  2. Your home area helps us figure out which local networks to bear witness y'all. Without information technology, we commonly can't give you your favorite local programming.
  3. This info helps to detect local taxes on your membership.

Turn on location permissions

YouTube Television uses your internet connection to find your location and offer yous the right local content. If nosotros can't observe where you are, you'll go an alert that YouTube TV doesn't accept access. Y'all'll be asked—either by your web browser or mobile device—to let YouTube Television set to identify your location. SelectAllow.

Existing members:

Modify your home area:

To change your home area:

  1. Open YouTube TV.
  2. Select your contour pictureand thenLocation.
  3. Beside "Home area", selectUpdate.

CHANGE Home AREA

Notes:

  • You tin can but change your habitation expanse twice per year.
  • You have to be physically in your new home area to update your home surface area in YouTube Television set.
  • If you lot're a frequent traveler, brand sure to utilise YouTube TV at least in one case every three months in your home area. This check in makes certain YouTube Tv can continue to offering y'all the correct local networks.

Update current playback expanse on a Tv

If you're watching with out Television app, you tin can update your current playback area (for case, if y'all're traveling).

To update your current playback surface area:

  1. Open the YouTube TV app on your TV.
  2. Select your profile pic.
  3. Select Settings and thenArea and thenCurrent Playback Surface area.

To update on a mobile device, get to https://goggle box.youtube.com/verify

  • Allow the website to access your device's location to update your current playback surface area.

Update current playback expanse on a mobile device or web browser

To update your electric current playback area:

  1. Open YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile picture.
  3. Select Settings and thenArea.
  4. Beside "Current playback area", Select Update.

If we tin can't correctly place your location, y'all'll be asked to go to tv.youtube.com/verify. Allow the website to access your device's location (if you haven't already) to verify the current playback area.

Troubleshoot location permissions

Still having problem? Location permissions might be turned off on your device. You tin bank check by following these steps.

  1. Open Chrome.
  2. In the top right, click either Bill of fare Menu  or More .
  3. Click Settings and then "Privacy and security" department.
  4. Click Site settings.
  5. Select Locationand change your location settings.

Using a Chrome device at piece of work or school? Your network administrator might manage location settings for yous, in which case yous may not be able to can't change them via these directions. Learn about using a managed Chrome device.

If you're using a web browser other than Chrome, cheque your browser settings to change location permissions. Learn more about location permissions on the post-obit net browsers:

  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Microsoft Border
  • Internet Explorer

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