YouTube TV and Paramount have approxmiately a month to resolve their carriage dispute before the NCAA men's tournament tips off March 18 and the Masters begins April 10.

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.

Although Paramount and YouTube TV agreed on a "short term extension" that temporarily paused a blackout of CBS and other Paramount-owned channels on the Google-owned streaming platform, it is unclear how long the agreement will remain in place.