By Aditya Soni

(Reuters) -Popular NBC shows including “Sunday Night Football” and “America’s Got Talent” may disappear from YouTube TV as soon as Tuesday if the two sides fail to agree on a new distribution deal, a standoff that could influence the future of television.

Carriage talks have stalled over the rates Alphabet’s YouTube TV will pay to distribute to its 10 million subscribers the shows of Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, the two companies have said.

But a bigger negotiation looms behind the scenes, and it reflects the newfound clout of YouTube as the dominant provider of video services in the United States.

YouTube TV wants to show content offered exclusively on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service – such as hit reality series “Love Island” – directly on its platform, a person

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