YouTube TV expands multiview beyond sports but you still can’t customise it

Being able to watch multiple things on TV at the same time is obviously a huge convenience for sports fanatics. So it makes sense that YouTube TV focused exclusively on sports when launching its multiview feature. It’s been several months since then, and the company says it’s (slowly) expanding multiview to also feature news, business, and weather programming. That’s the good news. The bad news is that for now, one frustrating catch remains: you’re limited to the preselected multiview groupings that YouTube TV chooses itself and can’t yet customise any of this yourself. So you can watch a bunch of stuff all at once, but you don’t have control over what’s included. Part of this comes down to the way YouTube TV built multiview; everything is handled on the backend and streamed to you instead of requiring your device to juggle multiple concurrent live streams. Unfortunately, it sounds like nothing’s going to change in the immediate future: YouTube TV customer support tweeted that these new multiview groupings will be rolling out after a test phase with a small group of customers.

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