YouTube TV Showing the Wrong Local Stations? Here's How to Fix It!

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[charlesscott]

Thank you! Will try this. I use Starlink Internet which uses Dallas addresses but is 100 miles away. I have spent hours with support and still have the wrong locals. They say to set the home area with the mobile app and the TVs will automatically switch, but it doesn't. I haven't seen my locals for over a year. Will try your method.

[olamideola-niyi]

this worked for me. did it on my computer, and it told me to use my phone, updated on phone and boom, it worked. Thanks!

[kevins]

We have the same situation as we also use the 5G Home internet service and have YouTube TV. And it is very random probably about every two to three months, but is a fairly easy fix once you know how too. As always appreciate your channel and shared knowledge. Great stuff!

[JimSherryLowe]

This local channel YouTube TV switch was driving me nuts! Appreciate you clear concise instructions to fix this.

[billknauss]

Thank you very much. I'm in the Philadelphia area and somehow I was switched to Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm not even Mormon. lol

[ctackett]

Genius! We were going crazy trying to figure out what happened. We had to get a new router and this error showed up. Thank you for figuring it out.

[cindyferrari]

After hours of frustration and getting nowhere - this worked perfect! Thank you so very much.

[pslawing]

Very frustrating since we switched to Verizon home internet. More and more people switching to this internet wish YouTube tv would fix this.

[admirals]

Same problem for me with T-Mobile Home Internet. I'm near Milwaukee, but my internet is consistently routed through Chicago. Sometimes I even have to use my GPS spoofing app on my phone to get the right channels.

[tylerfoss]

This has happened to me at least a dozen times and this fix you outline in the video works.
I don't know why it happens (your theory may be correct) but it happens with me on Xfinity.

[amandalh]

Thank you SO MUCH for this video! You just prevented WW3 from starting in my household. Bless you!

[CommodoreFan]

Yep I'm on T-Mobile 5G, and this has happened to me a few times as it shows my IP near Atlanta while I'm almost 4 hours east in in SC, and yep the mobile app is how ya fix it, so yeah while annoying at least they have a way to do it using your phones GPS location data, unlike Hulu, and a few others that just end up blocking you, or sticking you with the wrong channels.

[johngriffin]

Our challenge occurred due to a “split zip code”. Or so you tube tv explained. After a couple calls we were able to get the local stations closest to us. Not easy, but possible.

[blueretro]

It worked! 👍😊Thank you so very much for this information!

[MickF]

I'm getting tired of stuff requiring a mobile app. In a grocery store and see a discount for an item, only to find out you need a smartphone *AND* have to have a mobile app for the store? All the while, a few items down the aisle are discounted for everyone or have a pull-tag coupon for a discount.

[adamdanos]

How long do you have to be back in your home area if your traveling in this case I’m only changing the “current playback area”

[alflorida]

It sounds like if I am traveling, using, say Verizon jetpac internet data access, I can go to the YouTube app on my smart phone select the "current playback area" and update it. Now when I go back to YouTube on my TV I would have the locals from my new location. Am I missing something?

[JanesNewJourneys]

The update current viewing area only changes on iPad and iPhone.. the TV keeps saying it cannot find my device. Yet IP shows TV is connected . I can only see where I am visiting if I use the iPad like a Remote control. Using the Youtube TV remote gives me the error message the channel is not available to me because it is not my home address.

[donp]

Great video but you forgot one important step. Click on the feedback button and complain to YouTube TV every time it happens. I have Verizon home 5G broadband service and they change my IP address from Illinois to New York to Virginia, Rhode Island, etc at the drop of a hat sometime several times a week. I complained to YouTube TV each time it occurred when I first got YouTube TV last year. While my IP address still changes several times in a week, YouTube continues to show the correct local. I now only have to go in and correct the local channels with my phone approximately once a month. Using IP to set your local market is state of the art 1997 and they should be using other methods to determine your market. As I told YouTube TV last time I checked my 65-in flat panel TV has not moved from my family room since I bought it 5 years ago.

[chosendragon]

doesn't work. worked with google support and did it on mobile app settings location but then switches right back to washington DC, or still shows washington DC channels even though the home location shows correct Los Angeles location, but when you go to update location again it shows washington DC. I also had google reset the address change from 2 times per year for my account. still does not work.