A contract dispute between YouTube TV and NBC Universal might consequence within the Peacock Network dropping 14 of its channels from the streaming TV supplier by September 30, each providers warned on Sunday, which would depart the platform’s greater than 3 million subscribers with out entry to programming like Sunday Night Football, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Law and Order SVU.

According to a blog printed by Google-owned YouTube acknowledging the stalemate, the 2 firms have to this point been unable to achieve an “equitable agreement” in negotiations to resume their current contract, which is about to run out on Thursday, September 30. If a brand new deal isn’t reached in time, YouTube TV subscribers threat dropping out on NBCU’s worthwhile lineup, which presently contains channels like NBC, MSNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, Bravo, CNBC, Telemundo, and others.

“Our ask is that NBCU treats YouTube TV like any other TV provider,” YouTube wrote in a statement. “In other words, for the duration of our agreement, YouTube TV seeks the same rates that services of a similar size get from NBCU so we can continue offering YouTube TV to members at a competitive and fair price.”

Perhaps not shockingly, NBCUniversal characterised the dispute otherwise in its personal assertion; in line with 9to5Google, the corporate says it’s looking for “fair rates” for its streaming bundle from Google, which is to this point “refusing to make a deal … and willing to withhold entertainment, news, and sports programming from their paying customers.”

If the deadline arrives and no settlement has been reached, YouTube TV says it will likely be dropping month-to-month costs by $10 a month—from $64.99 to $54.99—for so long as the content material stays off the platform. YouTube TV additionally notes that customers are additionally welcome to subscribe to NBC’s personal direct-to-consumer streaming service, Peacock, for $4.99/month.

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This isn’t the primary time a carriage deal has created a really public dispute for YouTube TV in current months. Back in May, the platform publicly sparred with Sinclair over carriage charges for its regional sports activities networks, which have since disappeared from the platform altogether. It’s additionally value noting that web streaming bundle offers, typically, are form of a headache for platforms, for the reason that frequent contract renegotiations they require typically compel platforms to lift costs for purchasers, to the purpose the place month-to-month subscription costs have now drawn practically stage to the worth of conventional pay-TV.