Sports Fans Tear Into YouTube TV As Fox Contract Dispute Threatens Football Season

YouTube TV, take your lumps.

Both parties must come to an agreement by Aug. 27 to avoid potential disruptions on Fox offerings. / Brandon Sloter/Getty Images

If you're a YouTube TV subscriber and also a football fan, we have some (potentially) bad news for you.

On Monday, YouTube TV alerted its customers that, due to a contract dispute with Fox, content from "Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News, and Fox Sports" could become unavailable as of Aug. 27, 2025 unless both parties reach an agreement on a new deal.

But as all of us sports fans all know, that's pretty bad timing as far as football season is concerned. (For what it's worth, the first regular season NFL game on Fox isn't until Sept. 7, but FS1 and Fox Sports will be airing college games later this week.)

Our goal is to keep Fox content, including channels like the Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News, and Fox Sports on YouTube TV. We hope to reach a deal, but we want to be transparent that if we’re unable to reach an agreement by August 27, their content may become unavailable.

— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) August 25, 2025

Understandably, fans were pretty fired up upon hearing the news. And, uh ... not in a good way.

Take a look at that online reaction below:

Lmao during football season? Bye pic.twitter.com/DRJZK2T0xW

— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) August 25, 2025

you have until this Saturday at 11:59am ET to figure this out @YouTubeTV

we’re not missing Texas/Ohio State at noon ET

and you surely better get this solved before the first NFL Sunday on 9/7

no self-respecting football fan cares about your $10 bribe, give us our football pic.twitter.com/TriIvbk2YS

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) August 25, 2025

Oh cool. So I pay $100 a month but may not get to see Fox Big Noon games.

Negotiate harder, YouTube TV. pic.twitter.com/5uWsnknVGo

— Jonny Rockets 🐊 (@JonnyRocketsOTC) August 25, 2025

I deleted the YouTubeTV email so it won't apply to me

— Josh Pate (@JoshPateCFB) August 25, 2025

I will cancel my YouTube tv package at 4:01 PM CT Wednesday if they don’t figure this out https://t.co/Af4f8kRztr

— James Bryant (@KATVJames) August 25, 2025

We can’t be having this right before Football. We need peace talks. I have faith. Let me know if I can help @NFLonFOX @YouTubeTV https://t.co/BhG7r2tWDt

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) August 25, 2025

Ah the annual email from YouTube TV where they pretend they're Jerry Jones and send out an email to their subscribers with a negotiations update while trying to paint themselves as a martyr

Football is so back. pic.twitter.com/5ZSiYU0oVe

— Adam Rosenberg (@HeyRosenberg) August 25, 2025

If YouTube TV doesn’t get this deal done, I will cancel my subscription faster than you can say Big Noon Kick https://t.co/xc5lXelO3D

— Jake Myers (@CFBJake) August 25, 2025

College football fans after hearing the news about the Youtube TV vs Fox dispute:
pic.twitter.com/L7vviN7Ft5

— Johnny’s Barning On Cloud 9️⃣ 🦅 (@jrptigers) August 25, 2025

Every time a major sporting event is about to happen all of a sudden YouTube TV is beefing with a TV network

— Stephen Means (@Stephen_Means) August 25, 2025

YouTube TV just sent me an email saying we might lose FOX in 2 days?

I’m going to need you guys to sit down and figure this the F out. pic.twitter.com/dXYKCsFOyp

— Mr. Ohio (@MrOH1O) August 25, 2025

Me seeing the YouTube tv email pic.twitter.com/CgxTXnQtOR

— Paige (@ThatSportsPaige) August 25, 2025

YouTube TV making me miss Texas - Ohio State or any Commanders games, only to then offer me a $10 credit would be like running me over with your car, then getting out and standing over me and saying “my bad dude, didn’t see you there.”

Oh, cool, we’re good then!

— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) August 25, 2025

Fox Sports is one of the only reasons I have YouTube TV so I guess it will be 👋 pic.twitter.com/JAxc8johD6

— Chris Illuminati (@chrisilluminati) August 25, 2025

Appreciate the transparency @YouTubeTV but I will go back to “regular” cable if I don’t get @NFLonFOX and that’s just business nothing personal 🇺🇸🏈 pic.twitter.com/3iazAhR8Jq

— Dave Ross (@drosssports) August 25, 2025

The "good news," if you can even call it that, is that these types of broadcast disputes are nothing new, really (especially for YouTube TV), and typically amount to nothing. But let's be honest: that doesn't make it any less annoying.

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