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Uff. Well, depending on where you live, there's still old-school linear TV and radio. Piracy... Or the Blueray collection in the local library. They have educational books as well. I don't have my hopes up for services like Youtube, they're all subject of enshittification and privacy-invasive business models. And the proxies like piped.video or downloaders seem to not work all the time, these days. There are Podcasts, though. Blogs and news websites and other privacy respecting services like the Fediverse.
I'm glad my Youtube account still runs without being verified using my phone number. That might change, though. I've lost another Google account due to this.
Where do you live that has Youtube channels being broadcast on TV or available on discs at the library?
I thought the question was more about media in general, not about Youtube channels in specific.
But I live in Germany, the collaboration between public broadcasting and Youtube creators is called Funk. They occasionally broadcast stuff on the speciality channels and some creators landed a show on the main program, resulting in shows like MaiThink X. Though that kind of stuff is then in turn sometimes not published on Youtube, since they want to promote their own internet streaming platform, called "Mediathek". And you're going to have a hard time accessing all of that unless you're inside of Germany, since they use geoblocking. We also have a few other nice shows on public TV, like Feuer und Flamme, some satire / late-night shows, content for children, good regional news etc.
And the products I see from Youtubers and podcasters (" Influencers") in the library (or bookstore) are mostly books. Like cookbooks, sometimes novels, or they'll write some long form essays about the same thing their regular content is about and they'll try to make some extra money by selling books to their fans. I don't think they do DVDs. Most people are still on Youtube or TikTok and borrowing discs or watching linear TV is too cumbersome for their target audience.