YouTube TV announced Thursday night that it has agreed to a short-term deal with Paramount to keep CBS, Nickelodeon and several other networks owned by the media company on the streaming service—avoiding a blackout of those channels—as both sides continued to negotiations over a new distribution deal will continue.

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,

The 11th hour reprieve spared about 8 million YouTube TV customers from losing access to nearly two dozen networks, including BET, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and TV Land.