Tape shows, sports, events, & movies

Never miss an episode or game past recording your favorite programs to your personal library.

How to record shows, sports, events, and movies with YouTube TV | US only

Add or remove programs from your library

Add together a program to your library:

  • Anytime you see the add option next to a show, sports team, upshot, etc., you tin can add together it to your library.
  • Adding a program to your library ways that all electric current and upcoming airings will be recorded.

Remove a plan from your library:

  • To remove a plan from your library, select the remove option adjacent to the championship on the plan page.
  • Removing a program from your library means that current and upcoming airings will no longer be recorded. Your recorded programs will exist available until they elapse.

Find recorded programs

Your recordings tin be found in theLibrary tab. Select whatsoever program page to see current and upcoming airings.

Understand your playback options for recordings

If you're recording a game or program, you tin choose to:

  • Start your program from the offset
  • Resume the program where you paused it
  • Watch the currently live plan
  • Sentry cardinal plays (Note: cheque whether the stats & key plays feature is supported for the league you're watching, and on your device)

Recording storage infinite

  • Add as many programs to your library as you lot like—YouTube TV includes DVR without storage space limits.
  • You tin record any program that airs on YouTube Tv. Recording doesn't take up space on your device, but you demand to exist connected to the internet to view recorded programs.
  • If shows have episodes airing in the next two weeks, you can typically find them on YouTube Tv set. Once you've added a show to your library, it will stay there, even if there are no upcoming episodes.
  • Equally long as y'all maintain your membership status, alive TV recordings will be saved for ix months. Other programs volition vary based on agreements with our content partners.

Recording extensions

  • Sports recordings will generally be extended 30 minutes beyond the scheduled stop time in case games run long. YouTube TV may as well detect the specific end time of a game and extend the recording to that indicate.
  • All other recordings volition be extended 1 minute past the scheduled end time in case programs run long.

Recording single episodes, games, or events

  • For shows: If you lot add a show to your library, all airings—including upcoming airings and reruns—will be recorded automatically. Y'all tin can't record a single episode, but with Google taking care of your recording infinite, who needs simply one episode?
  • For sports: Add your preferred teams, leagues, or group of games (for example, all NBA Playoff games) to your library. Any games available in your area volition exist recorded across whatever of the networks they air on. On some occasions, certain sporting events may not be available. Learn more about viewing restrictions on YouTube TV.
  • For one-off events, like awards shows: Only add together the upshot to your library.

Ads on recorded programs

Written report a bad recording

If yous come across a bad recording in YouTube Tv set, you tin report information technology past doing the following:

  1. While trying to watch the recording, tap Morebelow the video actor.
  2. Select Written report recording.
  3. Select the specific issue you lot're having with the recording, and so submit.

Notes:

  • For some programs in your library, you can select your preferred format—recording or video on-demand—when y'all start watching.
  • In the YouTube TV mobile app, you lot can press downwardly on your screen on any page to open a Bill of fare. The Menu includes various actions, like calculation a program to your library.
  • If yous add a program to your library while an episode is in progress, your recording will beginning from the time you lot added the program. If a rerun of the episode airs, your partial recording volition be replaced past a total episode.

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