With minutes left till midnight on the East Coast when Paramount International and YouTube TV‘s present carriage settlement was set to run out, the 2 sides agreed to proceed negotiations, preserving Paramount’s TV networks, together with CBS, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, on the Google platform.
“We’ve reached a short-term extension with Paramount to maintain their content material on YouTube TV,” the corporate stated in a message on X Thursday night time. “Subscribers proceed to have entry to Paramount channels, together with CBS.”
YouTube TV was instantly inundated by questions concerning the actual size of the “short-term” settlement however the replies by the YouTube TV account wouldn’t go into specifics.
Paramount International warned of the looming carriage deadlock with YouTube TV Wednesday.
“We’ve got made a sequence of truthful affords to proceed our long-standing relationship with Google’s YouTube TV, offering subscribers entry to the total array of Paramount’s leisure, information and sports activities programming,” a spokesperson stated in a press release on the time. “YouTube TV is making an attempt to strain Paramount to conform to one-sided phrases, and these non-market calls for might result in an avoidable lack of Paramount’s networks,”
As is all the time the case in carriage disputes, YouTube TV had an opposing view.
“We’ve been working arduous to achieve a good settlement with Paramount that permits us to maintain their channels, together with CBS and CBS Sports activities, on YouTube TV with out passing on further prices to our subscribers,” the corporate stated in a publish Wednesday. “Sadly, regardless of our good religion negotiations, we haven’t been profitable but.”
