If you have been watching Fox or Fox News through YouTube TV, you may have heard the warning: since Monday, Fox has been telling viewers that their channels can be taken from YouTube TV.
It is not about censorship or political affiliations or anything like that. It is because mom and pop are fighting. Fox and Google are having a little search about what is called a car agreement, which is the amount of YouTube TV pays Fox to carry their products.
As the Hollywood Reporter explains: “August and September are often critical moments for transport agreements, since they coincide with the beginning of the NFL season.” That is bad news if Fox’s predictions come true and the channels are extracted: “If Fox channels darken, then YouTube customers in the markets with a Fox owned station lost access to their local NFL games, as well as university football and MLB playoffs.”
What is happening with Fox and YouTube TV, and what can you do about it?
What is happening here is that Fox is basically transmitted dirty clothes in public, claiming that “we are disappointed that Google continuously exploits its huge influence by proposing terms that are out of tune with the market.” And, of course, there are two sides in each story, and Google’s side is that “Fox is asking for much higher payments than the partners receive with comparable content offers.”
This is not the first time this happens. Disney took charter communications channels last year, already the beginning of this year seemed that the primary channels, including CBS, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, would be attracted to similar reasons. But in both cases, the respective parties finally reached an agreement, and in the case of Paramount, the channels did not fall at all.
That is likely to happen here too. But if not, it is not out of options: Fox has launched its own transmission service, Fox One, and says that it wants it to be available for anyone who pays traditional payment television services. So, if Fox disappears from YouTube TV, you can see their channels there, and YouTube says that if the channels get darkened for “a prolonged period”, it will give you a loan of $ 10.
