Chances are you’ll not have entry to CBS and CBS Sports activities, together with Paramount’s different channels, by way of YouTube TV after as we speak, February 13. In an announcement, YouTube has revealed that it is in the course of negotiations with the corporate to have the ability to proceed providing its channels. YouTube says it is “preventing for an settlement that avoids passing alongside further prices” to you, which signifies that they can not agree on a monetary deal that works for each of them, in addition to one that provides you “extra flexibility in the way you watch your favourite sports activities and exhibits.”
Along with CBS and CBS Sports activities, the channels affected embody Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central, MTV and VH1. A number of add-ons for YouTube TV, reminiscent of Paramount+ with Showtime, will not be accessible, as effectively. YouTube began including Paramount’s channels to its lineup in 2020, when YouTube TV nonetheless value $50 a month. At this time, the reside TV streaming service will set you again $70 a month for the primary half yr after which $83 a month going ahead.
YouTube says that if it could possibly’t attain a take care of Paramount, and the corporate’s content material turns into unavailable for “an prolonged time frame,” it will provide you with $8 in credit score. Surprisingly, YouTube is advising viewers who need continued entry to the networks exhibits to join the Paramount+ streaming service, which prices not less than $8 a month.
Paramount has additionally began warning subscribers that they will not be capable of entry its stations by way of YouTube TV for now and has even revealed an internet site informing them about it. The corporate wrote on the web site that it has made a “sequence of honest provides” to maintain the channels on the service. “YouTube TV is trying to stress Paramount to comply with one-sided phrases, and these non-market calls for might result in an avoidable lack of Paramount’s networks on YouTube TV, along with the removing of Paramount+ and BET+ from YouTube’s Primetime Channels, on February 13,” a Paramount spokesperson informed Engadget. “Paramount has a protracted monitor report of efficiently and amicably renewing partnerships with each main distributor, together with a number of in current months, and we’ll proceed our efforts to succeed in a brand new settlement with YouTube TV,” additionally they stated.
Replace, February 14, 2025, 12:08 AM ET: This story has been up to date so as to add Paramount’s assertion.