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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV needs to renew its carriage contract with NBCUniversal. The service is reportedly frustrated with the high rates it pays, and wants to leverage its size for a better deal. If nothing is worked out by October, viewers face the proposition of channel blackouts. Is there anything more pathetic than when big companies take their petty spats public? You’d think that institutions with multi-billion-dollar valuations would be able to negotiate arrangements between themselves professionally (and behind closed doors, most likely), but sometimes us end users get unceremoniously pulled into the fights. That happens far too often with cable companies temporarily dropping channels after failing to work out deals, and right now we’re worried that YouTube TV could be headed for just that kind of confrontation. According to CNBC’s Alex Sherman, YouTube’s deal to carry NBCUniversal is expiring at the end of the month, and as of right now a smooth renewal doesn’t sound particularly guaranteed. Any time one of these carriage contracts is up for renewal, there’s the possibility for something to go wrong — usually one of the parties insisting on a price hike or bundle arrangement that the other’s not particularly

Something isn't loading properly. Please check back later. Newfound enthusiasm about Jimmy Kimmel’s show is not evaporating after just one monologue. Kimmel’s Wednesday night follow-up to his Tuesday night comeback show quickly racked up millions of views on YouTube on Thursday morning, indicating that interest in Kimmel’s commentary remains way above normal. By 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, the Wednesday night monologue had topped 5 million views, enough to rank as one of his most-watched videos of the year on YouTube. Meanwhile, his emotional Tuesday night monologue has surpassed 20 million views on YouTube. That one already ranks as his most-watched monologue of all time on the platform. The surge in online viewership is partly because Kimmel’s show has been blacked out by Nexstar and Sinclair. The two local TV station operators control ABC-affiliated stations in markets that represent about 23% of American TV households. Nexstar said Wednesday that it is having “productive discussions” with Disney, while Sinclair referred CNN back to its earlier statement on the matter. On traditional television, Kimmel’s return episode scored at least 6.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen measurements. That figure will increase once other forms of viewing are factored in. Kimmel alluded to his

The return of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to ABC on Tuesday was a major moment in history — as the show touted with a supercut of newscasters declaring its significance — and Kimmel has the numbers to prove it. His 28-minute monologue has reached 17.7 million views on YouTube in 22 hours, making it his most-watched monologue ever on the platform. (On ABC, the episode was Kimmel’s No. 3 of all time.) Previously, the top monologue on YouTube was his 2020 remembrance of Kobe Bryant with just under the same amount, followed by his 2017 announcement of his son’s birth and heart disease with 14.7 million views. It’s presumable that many of Kimmel’s YouTube viewers came from regions that did not have access to the broadcast on their local ABC stations. Nexstar and Sinclair, which own roughly one-quarter of the country’s ABC stations combined, decided to continue preempting “Jimmy Kimmel Live” despite Disney reinstating the series. Popular on Variety It should be noted that Tuesday’s monologue isn’t the most-watched video on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” page overall; there are currently around 100 interviews, comedy bits and other videos on the show’s page with higher view counts, peaking with 80 million views

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Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform. In a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet’s lawyers claimed that the Biden administration had previously “pressed the Company” to remove user-generated Covid-19 content that had not violated Alphabet’s policies, and that the “political atmosphere” had forced their hand. “It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content,” they wrote. Back in 2020, during the height of the pandemic and during the first Trump administration, YouTube implemented a “medical misinformation policy” that blocked content promoting covid conspiracy theories and eventually banned them outright. After the January 6th riots in the U.S. Capitol, YouTube temporarily suspended channels, including Donald Trump’s own YouTube channel, that claimed that the election was “stolen” from Trump. They continued to crack down on high-profile MAGA influencers for violating those policies, such as demonetizing and removing videos from Steven Crowder’s channel in 2021. Stating that YouTube’s Community Guidelines around election integrity and covid-19 content had evolved significantly since 2020, Alphabet said that

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