YouTube TV subscribers braced for the loss of popular programming as negotiations for a new distribution contract went down to the wire. Google said it would offer customers an $8-a-month credit to compensate for the outage.

Although Paramount and YouTube TV agreed on a "short term extension" that temporarily paused a blackout of CBS and other Paramount-owned channels on the Google-owned streaming platform, it is unclear how long the agreement will remain in place.

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.