Less than two weeks before the NFL season kicks off, Fox and YouTube TV are in a carriage dispute that threatens a network blackout on the service within days.

Another year, another highly publicized carriage battle right on the precipice of football season. It’s a tale as old as the cable bundle itself. But times have changed. No longer are content providers that hold the live sports rights holding distributors over a barrel.

YouTube TV subscribers could soon notice some channels missing. The streaming platform, which offers live TV from more than 100 channels, sent an email notice to subscribers on Monday, August 25, about a potential service change.

The carriage dispute between Fox and YouTube TV could have big implications on how fans watch Detroit sports in the fall.

The carriage dispute could result in Fox disappearing from the service entirely — just in time for football season.

As Nielsen noted a week earlier in its platform-based Gauge rankings, YouTube and Netflix (8.8 percent of TV use, third overall) by themselves accounted for more than a fifth of all TV viewing in July, equaling the total for all cable networks and surpassing broadcast. Streaming as a whole made up 47.3 percent of all viewing in July.

A standoff between FOX Sports and YouTube TV could drop FOX, FS1, and Big Ten Network before Week 1. Fans face losing Baylor vs Auburn and Texas vs Ohio State broadcasts.

Brendan Carr, the pro-Trump chairman of the FCC, weighed in on the carriage fight between Google's YouTube TV and Fox Corp. - which threatens to pull Fox News and other networks off the streaming platform.