fuboTV have dropped nine AMC-owned channels including, AMC, BBC America, WE tv, BBC World News, IFC, SundanceTV, el gourmet, AMC Premiere, and Mas Chic.
fuboTV told customers, “Our mission has always been to offer a leading package of premium sports, news, and entertainment programming while balancing value and keeping your costs as low as possible. Unfortunately, as of December 31, 2022, AMC Networks have left FuboTV.”
The company says that while it is open to adding AMC Networks to the lineup again, there are currently no plans to do so. Fubo also told customers that it won’t be offering any refunds or credits for the change to the line-up. Fortunately, if you have recordings on your Cloud DVR, they will remain on your account until you delete them.
| DTV STREAM | Fubo | Hulu | Philo | Sling TV | YouTube | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free Trial | Free Trial | Free Trial | Get 50% Off | Sign Up | |||
| $79.99 | $91.99 | $76.99 | $25 | $40 | $40 | $72.99 | ||
| AMC | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BBC America | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BBC World News | + $40 | - | - | ✓ | + $6 | + $6 | ✓ | |
| IFC | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SundanceTV | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | + $6 | + $6 | ✓ | |
| WE tv | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | + $6 | + $6 | ✓ | |
The least expensive way to replace the channels is with Philo, which is available with a 7-Day Free Trial. The AMC Networks are also available on Sling TV ($40 per month), DIRECTV STREAM ($69.99), YouTube TV ($64.99), but they have never been available on Hulu Live TV. The content is also available on AMC+, which you can get for two months for just $1.99 per month through Prime Video Channels (through Jan. 1), and $8.99 per month after that.
This isn’t the first time that fuboTV has dropped channels on New Years Day. Three years ago it dropped Disney-Owned FX, FXX, FXM, and Nat Geo (which has since returned), along with Fox Sports regional sports networks (now renamed Bally Sports), which the company just announced are returning this month.
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In July 2020 and July 2021 respectively, fuboTV dropped Turner and A+E Networks, which haven’t returned to the service as of yet. However, dropping the entertainment-focused AMC Networks could be an indication that Fubo was looking to free up more money in order to bring more sports to the platform — which is fuboTV’s main selling point — especially with Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns TNT and TBS, much more likely to make deals now than ever before.
Last March, fuboTV CEO David Gandler was asked whether a sports service could be without March Madness – and whether TNT and TBS could return to the platform.
“96% of our users watch sports, so it allows us to amortize sports content in ways that other services can’t,” he said, “given the more of a general entertainment-type audience that they have. We’re having discussions all the time, and hopefully, there’s an opportunity to bring them back at some point.”
With so much viewership on sports content, it’s not a surprise that fuboTV would be willing to forgo AMC Networks to save on content costs –– especially when customers can get the channels OTT for just $9 with AMC+.