Jaylen Brown (shooting) and the Celtics are 9-8 this season.
Jaylen Brown (shooting) and the Celtics are 9-8 this season.Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff
Celtics fans are among the losers in a dispute between Fubo TV and NBCUniversal.
As of last Friday, Fubo TV has stopped carrying all NBCUniversal content, including Celtics games regularly broadcast on NBC Sports Boston.
Wednesday’s game against Detroit won’t be affected since the game will be broadcast on ESPN, but the next four games in a row, beginning Saturday in Minnesota, will be blacked out in Boston on NBC Sports Boston and NBC unless there’s a resolution.
The standoff stems from content agreement negotiations. Fubo believes NBCUniversal’s request for a price hike for Fubo to broadcast its content is “exorbitant.”
“Unfortunately, NBCU has offered terms regarding pricing and packaging that are egregiously above those offered to other distributors,” said Fubo in a statement on its website. “There is no basis for this discrimination and, as a result, Fubo subscribers would either be denied important content or be forced to pay what we believe to be exorbitant costs.”
Last Friday, Fubo sent a similar email to subscribers about those “egregiously” high requests from NBCUniversal. The email also said that if the impasse continued for an unspecified “extended period of time,” subscribers would receive a $15 credit to their Fubo account.
An NBCU spokesperson took Fubo to task for dropping its content.
“Fubo has chosen to drop NBCUniversal programming despite being offered the same terms agreed to by hundreds of other distributors,” said the spokesperson. “Unfortunately, this is par for the course for Fubo — they’ve dropped numerous networks in recent years at the expense of their customers, who continue to lose content.”
The company characterized its terms as “fair” and that other carriers, including Disney – which as of last month gained 70 percent ownership of Fubo – have agreed to the same deal being discussed with Fubo.
Disney is the parent company of ESPN.
NBCUniversal also pointed to several “drops” by Fubo over the last five years, including TelevisaUnivision, Discovery, WarnerMedia, AMC, and A&E networks, as well as SportsNet New York and Bally Sports RSN.
Other sports content lost to Fubo subscribers because of the spat include NBC college football, NBC’s Sunday night football games, and Premier League games.
Earlier this month, Fubo reported that it has 1.63 million subscribers in North America.
A two-week blackout of ESPN content carried on YouTubeTV ended in the middle of November after the sides reached a new licensing agreement.
NBC Sports Boston owns the regional broadcast rights to Celtics games.
The Celtics own 20 percent of NBC Sports Boston.
Michael Silverman can be reached at michael.silverman@globe.com.