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Retention & Deletion · Company practice

YouTube TV recordings are kept up to nine months, and removed within 24 hours of the subscription ending or on request

Recordings may be stored for up to nine months. The sentence sets two situations where that period does not apply: where Google is asked to delete or remove access to a recording, and "within 24 hours of the termination" of the subscriber's subscription, which reads as the recording ending within about a day after the subscription ends.

Supporting quotations

Recordings may be stored for up to nine (9) months, except in those instances where Google is asked to delete or remove access to a recording or within 24 hours of the termination of the subscriber’s subscription.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Nine months is a maximum ("up to").
  • The 24-hour rule applies after the subscription ends.

Not stated here

  • The page does not say who can ask Google to delete or remove access to a recording or what counts as such a request.
  • It does not spell out exactly what happens to a recording at the 24-hour point after termination.