I just fail to find much of the content interesting. TV for me is 99% news, sports, or traditional entertainment (Internationally known example: "Jeopardy", just for the sake of discussion). I find YouTube just isn't geared for this. I mean I have lots of narrow interests, but I don't want to watch a 1 hour video of someone discussing the latest stuff in my area of interest no matter how good it is. Because the people in my family who is also in the room would protest. And there is no one I can discuss this with when I have seen it because it's such a slim topic.
I mean if you sit down at lunch today and want to grab a 30min news summary for national news, from a reasonably trustworthy news source how would you even do that on YouTube?
FWIW, YouTube TV, the paid subscription package, has what you're looking for. If you wanted to watch an episode of some cable or local news broadcast, you can do that. Pick your flavor: Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, HLN, PBS News, local affiliates, etc. It is practically just cable TV on the internet. Want to watch Game Show Network and watch endless shows like Jeopardy and Deal or No Deal or whatever, it is there. Lots of sports-centric TV channels as well, but not all regional sports networks are available (at least last time I checked).
Some news channels do offer more traditional news segments on regular YT. NBC News and ABC News offer a 24/7 live stream and often makes entire episodes available.
Sounds like you just want an endless feed of traditional TV. I suggest you talk to younger people because this is not how they generally consume content anymore, and that is the target audience for YouTube and why the traditional content on YouTube is corralled into a small walled section sandwiched between vast swaths of algorithmic suggested content.
I mean if you sit down at lunch today and want to grab a 30min news summary for national news, from a reasonably trustworthy news source how would you even do that on YouTube?