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TL;DR YouTube TV viewers are taking issue with insufficient labeling for some sporting events.
Individual matches are not always identified as men’s or women’s.
College sports seem particularly impacted, and it’s not even always clear what sport is being played.
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. You’re browsing YouTube TV for something to watch. You spot the name of a cop show that sounds interesting, tap your remote and — what’s this? The detectives are women, not men? How could YouTube TV be this deceptive?
For as absurd as that complaint sounds, a very similar situation has been playing out among YouTube TV sports fans, where viewers accuse the service of not adequately labeling which gender of athletes are competing.
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The 2026 Winter Olympics are wrapping up on Sunday, and millions of sports fans have been tuning in these past couple weeks. All that’s put a lot of eyes on athletic competitions with very pronounced splits between male and female contestants. And after seeing so many of those events pop up in the channel guides, YouTube TV viewers have started noticing some inconsistencies in how many non-Olympic sporting events are titled.
Over on Reddit, a thread started by user fin074 is full of complaints from fans who feel that YouTube TV doesn’t do a great job at labeling sports. Here’s a screen highlighting an Olympic curling event:
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