YouTube TV subscribers braced for the loss of popular programming as negotiations for a new distribution contract went down to the wire. Google said it would offer customers an $8-a-month credit to compensate for the outage.

The current agreement is set to expire. If a new deal isn’t reached, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and other channels are likely to go dark. Several channels owned by Paramount Global, including CBS,

Although Paramount and YouTube TV agreed on a "short term extension" that temporarily paused a blackout of CBS and other Paramount-owned channels on the Google-owned streaming platform, it is unclear how long the agreement will remain in place.