With minutes left until midnight on the East Coast when Paramount Global and YouTube TV‘s current carriage agreement was set to expire, the two sides agreed to continue negotiations, keeping Paramount’s TV networks, including CBS, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, on the Google platform.
“We’ve reached a short-term extension with Paramount to keep their content on YouTube TV,” the company said in a message on X Thursday night. “Subscribers continue to have access to Paramount channels, including CBS.”
YouTube TV was immediately inundated by questions about the exact length of the “short-term” agreement but the replies by the YouTube TV account would not go into specifics.
Paramount Global warned of the looming carriage impasse with YouTube TV Wednesday.
“We have made a series of fair offers to continue our long-standing relationship with Google’s YouTube TV, providing subscribers access to the full array of Paramount’s entertainment, news and sports programming,” a spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “YouTube TV is attempting to pressure Paramount to agree to one-sided terms, and these non-market demands may lead to an avoidable loss of Paramount’s networks,”
As is always the case in carriage disputes, YouTube TV had an opposing view.
“We’ve been working hard to reach a fair agreement with Paramount that allows us to keep their channels, including CBS and CBS Sports, on YouTube TV without passing on additional costs to our subscribers,” the company said in a post Wednesday. “Unfortunately, despite our good faith negotiations, we haven’t been successful yet.”
