{"id":194494,"date":"2025-10-01T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194494\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:35:08","slug":"nbcuniversal-reaches-short-term-extension-with-youtube-tv-as-companies-seek-carriage-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194494\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal Reaches Short-Term Extension With YouTube TV As Companies Seek Carriage Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNBCUniversal<\/a> and YouTube TV<\/a> have reached a short-term extension as they negotiate a new carriage deal.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe companies\u2019 current agreement was slated to expire at midnight ET on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement provided to Deadline, a YouTube TV spokesperson said, \u201cWe\u2019ve reached a short-term extension to avoid disruption to our service while we work toward a new agreement with NBCUniversal. We appreciate our subscribers\u2019 patience while we negotiate on their behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news came shortly after TelevisaUnivision<\/a>\u2018s networks, including giant Hispanic broadcast outlet Univision, went dark on YouTube TV<\/a>. TelevisaUnivision\u2019s current deal also expired Tuesday at midnight ET. YouTube TV is already in talks with Disney and ESPN for a renewal of an agreement expiring in a few weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile carriage disputes are far from uncommon, especially as the economics of pay-TV<\/a> become increasingly pressured in an era of cord-cutting, YouTube TV as a distributor has a unique profile. It is now the No. 4 operator in the U.S., having surpassed 10 million subscribers just eight years after it launched. It is also growing while the Top 3 (Charter, Comcast and DirecTV) are shrinking.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike other cable or satellite providers, YouTube TV is part of a tech behemoth that is not particularly beholden to the entertainment business. Parent company Google\u2019s $3 trillion market cap frequently cited by those across the bargaining table, who say that dynamic makes the service less willing to compromise. It also may have informed its decision to raise prices twice<\/a> (a total uptick of $18) in less than two years. <\/p>\n

\n\tNBCU first started warning viewers last week about the looming deadline, running on-screen crawls and blasting out messages across social media that YouTube was \u201cat it again.\u201d In one sense, they weren\u2019t incorrect. Prior to the dustups with NBCU and TelevisaUnivision, YouTube TV had nearly blacked out Paramount and Fox networks, reaching deals with both media companies after tensions spilled into public view.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne core issue in the YouTube TV-NBCU impasse has been the tech company\u2019s push to \u201cingest\u201d streaming programming<\/a> from NBCU as opposed to merely integrating Peacock into its channel offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have reached a short-term extension as they negotiate a new carriage deal. The companies\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,89867,16108,66294,11126,72175],"class_list":{"0":"post-194494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-carriage-dispute","10":"tag-nbcuniversal","11":"tag-pay-tv","12":"tag-televisaunivision","13":"tag-youtube-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}