YouTube TV subscribers will continue to have access to Paramount channels such as CBS, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon. At least for now. The streaming service and Paramount announced late on Thursday that they have agreed to a short-term extension to avoid the channels leaving YouTube TV.

Paramount-owned channels including CBS, Comedy Central and MTV are set to go dark on YouTube TV Thursday night if a contract renewal agreement is not reached, both companies say. "The contract Paramount has with Google's YouTube TV to carry CBS,

After a brief scare for the roughly 8 million YouTube TV subscribers, the pay-TV streamer, and Paramount, owner of CBS among its many holdings, reached a short-term extension. There was a deadline of 11 p.