Watch HBO for Free on YouTube TV

Now through Sunday, May 8, YouTube TV subscribers can watch HBO® and CINEMAX® for free.

By Bill Frost Edited By Mikayla Rivera

Share | May 4, 2022

Need to catch up with The Batman and Barry? Right now through Sunday, May 8, YouTube TV subscribers can watch HBO and CINEMAX for free.

All of HBO’s and CINEMAX’s channels should already be displayed in your YouTube TV live channel guide—unless you’re using the Custom Guide personalized option, in which case you’ll have to add the channels by accessing Settings and then Live Guide (they’ll appear at the bottom of the channel list; check the channel boxes to add them).

The channels you can watch for free on YouTube TV:

HBO:

HBO East
HBO West
HBO2
HBO Signature
HBO Comedy
HBO Zone
HBO Family
HBO Latino

CINEMAX:

Cinemax East
Cinemax West
MoreMax
ActionMax
ThrillerMax
MovieMax
OuterMax
5StarMax
Cinelatino

After May 8, the HBO and CINEMAX channels will disappear from your YouTube TV guide—no action is required on your part. Also, this free viewing window doesn’t apply to HBO Max, but you can get a seven-day free HBO Max trial by signing up through YouTube TV (and Hulu).

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About the Author
Bill Frost

Bill Frost has been a journalist and TV reviewer since the 4:3-aspect-ratio ’90s. His pulse-pounding prose has been featured in The Salt Lake Tribune, Inlander, Coachella Valley Independent, Salt Lake City Weekly, and many other dead-tree publications (see BillFrost.tv). In addition to being a Senior Staff Writer at CableTV.com, Bill is a Senior Writer and streaming TV columnist at SLUGMag.com and host/producer of TV Tan Podcast. By night, Bill cranks a Flying V with his band at the bar.