YouTube TV apologizes for World Cup outage with free week of service
Yes, I'll take it.
Marrian Zhou Staff Reporter
Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably binge watching, playing saxophone or eating hot pot.
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I was pretty upset after missing the first Croatia goal because of the YouTube TV outage on Wednesday. I'm slightly happier now.
YouTube TV is offering subscribers a free week of binge watching as compensation for the untimely outage, which interrupted the World Cup semifinal game, according to Deadline Hollywood.
The outage occurred in the midst of the heated Croatia vs. England match. The interruption was limited to the US and the stream came back an hour later. YouTube apologized right away but the timing was just horrible for soccer fans.
YouTube didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.