In an eleventh-hour agreement late Thursday night, YouTube TV reached what it called a "short-term extension" with Paramount to keep channels such as CBS, Comedy Central and MTV on its subscription streaming service after access to them was set to go dark following failed negotiations around a contract renewal.

YouTube TV and Paramount have agreed on a multi-year deal to keep CBS, MTV and the other 100 plus channels owned by the network on the platform.

YouTube says the deal enables it to offer 'more user choice in the future,' without elaborating on what that enhanced user choice entails.

YouTube TV announced a deal to keep Paramount channels on its platform had been reached Saturday night, ending a public contract dispute.

YouTube TV has reached a deal with Paramount to avoid cutting off subscribers’ access to certain channels, including CBS, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon. Earlier this week, YouTube TV announced in a blog post that Paramount content would be removed from its platform after February 13 because the two had failed to reach “a fair agreement” that would keep those channels available.

After warnings that Paramount content was about to disappear from Google’s pay TV service YouTube TV, the companies announced late Saturday that they'd

After three days of negotiating, YouTube TV has announced a new deal with Paramount. The agreement resolves a carriage dispute that threatened to make all Paramount-owned channels go dark on the streaming service.