YouTube TV customers will continue to get NBCUniversal’s suite of cable channels and local NBC stations after Google and NBCU announced an official agreement Saturday
The contract fight escalated earlier this week, after
NBCU on Sunday began warning YouTube TV customers they could lose networks like NBC, USA Network and CNBCGoogle has claimed that NBCU is asking for higher rates than it charges YouTube TV’s pay-TV competitors. In addition, the internet giant said NBCU, by looking to bundle Peacock Premium with YouTube, that would effectively double-charge customers for the same content .
NBCU had said that it was seeking “fair rates from Google for YouTube TV’s continued carriage of the only portfolio offering entertainment, Hispanic, news and sports networks.” NBCU channels that YouTube TV subscribers had been in danger of losing were NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, Golf Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, Syfy, Telemundo, the Olympic Channel, Universal Kids, Universo and USA Network, as well as NBC Sports regional networks including NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports California, NBC Sports Chicago, NBC Sports Philadelphia, SNY and NBC Sports Washington.
YouTube TV, available only in the U.S., offers 85-plus channels including local channels for ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. The service last
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