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,

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.

YouTube TV and Paramount have approxmiately a month to resolve their carriage dispute before the NCAA men's tournament tips off March 18 and the Masters begins April 10.