• 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

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