{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.moreno.senate.gov/press-releases/moreno-demands-answers-on-googles-plan-to-hike-costs-for-millions-of-viewers", "Moreno Demands Answers on Google\u2019s Plan to Hike Costs for Millions of Viewers", "2025-09-30", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "OH", "Bernie Moreno", "M001242", "www.moreno.senate.gov", "moreno", "https://www.moreno.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) penned a letter to Google\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai demanding answers on Google\u2019s plan to increase prices for millions of Hispanic viewers who rely on channels such as Univision and Telemundo on YouTube TV.\n\n\u201cHasn\u2019t your company learned by now that censoring the content that subscribers have access to is potentially illegal, a terrible business practice, and has called into question your integrity and trustworthiness as an information dissemination platform that over 10 million households utilize,\u201d wrote Senator Moreno. \u201cSuch conduct also risks a need for antitrust scrutiny, as it may reflect an abuse of market power to restrict consumer choice.\u201d\n\nRead the letter HERE or below.\n\nSeptember 29, 2025\n\nMr. Sundar Pichai\n\nChief Executive Officer\n\nGoogle 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway\n\nMountain View, CA 94043\n\nDear Mr. Pichai,\n\nI write to request information regarding your company\u2019s decision to remove Univision and Telemundo from YouTube TV\u2019s basic television streaming platform and place Univision and Telemundo stations into a \u201cSpanish-only\u201d package that costs $15 more each month than the basic television streaming platform. It is my understanding that if a deal is not reached this week between your company and NBCUniversal, then roughly 10 million paid subscribers in the United States will not have access to either Hispanic broadcast network.\n\nGoogle is effectively placing an 18 percent tax on millions of Hispanic customers\u2014or worse\u2014denying them access to services in a way that could be indicative of serious antitrust violations. This is one recent example of Google abusing its market power to silence these outlets that millions of Hispanic viewers rely on. Unfortunately, I am not surprised to learn a company owned by Google is refusing to provide vital information to its subscribers.\n\nJust last week, your company publicly admitted that Google\u2019s COVID and election content censorship policies were wrongly put in place either at the request of or to appease the Biden Administration. You actively and intentionally removed access to certain creators\u2019 accounts and information based on the content of their speech. Hasn\u2019t your company learned by now that censoring the content that subscribers have access to is potentially illegal, a terrible business practice, and has called into question your integrity and trustworthiness as an information dissemination platform that over 10 million households utilize? Such conduct also risks a need for antitrust scrutiny, as it may reflect an abuse of market power to restrict consumer choice.\n\nPlease respond to my office no later than ten business days of receipt of this letter with the answers to the following questions:\n\nWill subscribers lose access to NBCUniversal\u2019s premium programming, which includes Telemundo and Univision, on September 30, 2025?\n\nWill subscribers lose access to NBCUniversal\u2019s premium programming, which includes Telemundo and Univision, on September 30, 2025?\n\nDo you think charging a Hispanic tax to Latino subscribers is acceptable?\n\nDo you think that eliminating access to Univision and Telemundo is \u201cbias towards a particularly viewpoint\u201d which you\u2019ve stated is \u201cnot in line with the Company\u2019s values or the Company\u2019s business interests?\n\nPlease provide a detailed explanation as to why your company believes this conduct does not constitute a violation of federal antitrust laws, including whether you have conducted any internal or external legal analysis to support that conclusion.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.moreno.senate.gov/press-releases/moreno-demands-answers-on-googles-plan-to-hike-costs-for-millions-of-viewers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7363590411841869, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}