# YouTube TV Pricing Shifts and Snapchat Safety Features

**Podcast:** TechCrunch Daily Crunch
**Published:** 2026-02-10

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Music Board, an app for music discovery and recommendations, has been struggling, according to its users.
Over the past several months, users said the app experienced outages, the website went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Store.
This has concerned its devoted, if small, user base.
The app has been downloaded around 462,000 times to date, according to market intelligence provider App Figures.
On Reddit, users have been recommending alternatives and offering each other support as they wait for any update.
And while it's not surprising for an app to shut down when there's still an active user base, apps typically do provide some sort of communication from their operators.
But music board users say they haven't heard a thing, leaving them to reach out to the press for help, getting in touch with someone, if only to let them export their data.
Some users organized an unofficial help save music board initiative to bring more attention to the matter.
The group is led by the music board user known as Laverini and run by volunteers.
TechCrunch contacted Music Board to help these users get some answers and was provided a short statement.
However, the statement didn't explain the longer term issues and dismissed the outage as temporary downtime.
The statement, shared from the Music Board team email address and signed simply as Music Board, said the following.
App is not shut down.
The servers had temporary downtime, which has now been quickly fixed, and we're working together with a Google Play team to get the app back up there.
The app wouldn't shut down without a respectful timeline for the users and official communication.
App is staying live.
TechCrunch's follow-up questions went unanswered.
After launching a home safe feature that lets users notify friends and family when they've arrived home safely, Snapchat's now introducing additional alerts to inform others when users have arrived at other destinations.
The social media giant announced on Monday that with its new arrival notifications, users can now set one-time or recurring alerts for locations beyond their home, providing an automatic way to share when they've arrived at specific places.
As with the platform's home safe alerts, arrival notifications can only be sent to friends you choose to share your location with.
It's worth noting the location sharing on SnapMap is off by default.
No one can see your location or receive an alert unless you choose to share it.
One-time alerts expire after they're sent or after 24 hours.
To use arrival notifications, you need to share your location with a trusted friend that you want to keep in the loop.
Then you need to tap on your friendship profile and scroll down to arrival notifications.
You can pick a location on the map and give it a personal name.
For example, you could set the location for your run club or the location for piano lessons.
You can then choose a one-time or recurring alert, after which Snapchat will notify your friend when you arrive.
The new feature comes as Snapchat announced last summer that SnapMap now has more than 400 million monthly active users.
Snapmap, which launched in 2017, was originally a way for users to see their friends' locations and browse public snaps from around the world.
The feature now also offers ways for users to discover local hotspots and find things to do.
With its home safe and arrival notifications features, Snapchat's looking to further compete with services like the family location sharing app Life360 and Apple's Find My.
On Monday, YouTube introduced lower-priced YouTube TV plans that will allow subscribers to better tailor their plans to their own interests in areas like sports, news, and entertainment.
The company said that it'll offer more than 10 different plans to choose from, all priced below the $82.99 per month main YouTube TV plan that has access to more than 100 networks.
The new plans will start rolling out this week.
Now, while that main plan will not go away, the new plans will allow customers to pick what matters most and what they could do without in return for cost savings.
Among the new plans are a $64.99 per month sports plan, a sports and news plan for $71.99 per month, a less expensive entertainment plan for $54.99 per month, and a $69.99 per month news and entertainment and family plan, which includes kids' content.
The sports plans include all major broadcasters, plus networks like FS1, NBC Sports Network, all of the ESPN networks, and ESPN Unlimited.
This plan is $18 cheaper per month than the main plan.
YouTube TV's new channels include CNBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNow, and Bloomberg, along with other national news channels.
Combined with sports, the package is priced $11 lower per month than the main YouTube TV plan.
As for the entertainment only plan, well, it's $28 cheaper per month than the main plan and includes major broadcasters as well as FX, Hallmark, Comedy Central, Bravo, Paramount, Food Network, and HGTV.
Families with small kids can add other channels like Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Cartoon Network, and PBS Kids for a bit more.
The company is also offering discounts for new subscribers, which could lower the price of certain plans further for either the first few months or the first year.
Subscribers will continue to have access to YouTube TV's unlimited DVR, support for up to six family members on one account, multi-view, and more.
Other add-ons like NFL Sunday Ticket and Red Zone, HBO Max and 4K Plus can also be purchased to customize plans further.
The company says all the new plans will roll out over the next several weeks.
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