YouTube TV drops all the paramount chains in the midst of contractual negotiations

YouTube TV is very Lucky this football season I just finished.

Due to the obviously unsatisfactory contractual negotiations, the Google cable alternative streaming service (which I am subscribed) will abandon all paramount channels after February 13. It is today, in case you have not yet checked the calendar. The measure was announced on Youtube’s blog And in an email to subscribers, saying that Google’s “good faith negotiations” have not yet found a resolution.

Anyone who has already subscribed to a cable or satellite service has probably treated it before. When it is time to negotiate a new contract, one part wants more than the other is ready to offer, and the end of the resulting judgment creates a situation where subscribers suddenly get much less than what they have paid. In the case of Youtube TV, customers are now paying $ 82.99 / month for a service that does not include one of the following elements::

• CBS

• CBS Sports

• MTV

• BET

• Nickelodeon

• Central comedy

• VH1

• Primary network

CBS is one of the main American sporting broadcasters, so if it had occurred a month earlier during the football season, there may have been riots in the streets. If this continues in March, YouTube TV customers will miss the NCAA basketball tournament games. For the moment, we will just have to wait for both sides to understand this.