YouTube plans internet television service: report

San Francisco: YouTube plans to launch a service that streams cable television channels to viewers over the internet for the price of a subscription, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. YouTube has made a priority of creating the service, called Unplugged, which could debut as early as next year, according to the report, which cited unnamed people close to the project. YouTube executives have talked about the plan with major media companies such as Viacom, NBCUniversal, and Twenty-First Century Fox but had yet to obtain rights to any content, according to unidentified sources cited by Bloomberg.