Fox and YouTube TV on Wednesday agreed to an eleventh-hour short-term extension to their distribution deal, narrowly avoiding a blackout of all Fox’s content on the platform.

“We have reached a short-term extension with Fox to prevent disruption to YouTube TV subscribers as we continue to work on a new agreement,” the Alphabet-owned company shared in a blog post published at the appointed deadline. Neither Fox nor YouTube clarified how long the “short-term” extension is good for.

If no agreement is reached, Fox will see its news, business, entertainment and sports offerings, as well as programming from its local stations, go dark on YouTube TV.

Fox, FS1, the Big Ten Network and Fox News Channel are among the outlets that would no longer be available on the Google-owned platform.

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