Questions remain after Paramount and YouTube TV agreed on a 'short term extension,' including how long the agreement will last.

Paramount Global and Google's YouTube TV agreed to a short-term contract extension late Thursday, keeping CBS and other networks available as the two media companies worked to negotiate a new distribution agreement.

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.