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http://tvline.com/2014/10/16/cbs-all-access-streaming-service-online/
 

The floodgates have officially opened.

Just a day after HBO unveiled plans for a Netflix-style Internet-only subscription service, CBS has announced Thursday that it too is launching an on-demand streaming offshoot called CBS All Access.

For $5.99 per month, subscribers will have access to thousands of CBS episodes from the current season, previous seasons and classic shows (such as Star Trek, Twin Peaks and Cheers).

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well this is going to suck, and kill off quality apps like the Time Warner Cable App and Hulu Plus app (which I'm sure is no coincidence that CBS is the only Network whose shows they don't carry).

 

 

Not convinced this will work in the longrun. They'll get subscriptions, sure, but people aren't going to buy a subscription for each individual network.

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well this is going to suck, and kill off quality apps like the Time Warner Cable App and Hulu Plus app (which I'm sure is no coincidence that CBS is the only Network whose shows they don't carry).

 

 

Not convinced this will work in the longrun. They'll get subscriptions, sure, but people aren't going to buy a subscription for each individual network.

 

Hard to say, if the pricing is right I could see that happening.

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http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/cbs-news-to-launch-video-streaming-service-thursday-1201348413/
 

The launch, a formal announcement of which is expected, was described by Jim Lanzone, president and chief executive of CBS Interactive, during a session at an industry conference in Dublin, Ireland. Digital-news site re/code previously reported the details.

Lanzone did not specify the name of the service, but executives have been mulling use of the name CBSN, and that name seems likely to stick. CBS News correspondents Jeff Glor and Elaie Quijano are expected to figure prominently in the new video-streaming effort, though a wide variety of correspondents from CBS News are likely to take part.

The new-tech service would give CBS more of a foothold in what has become a minute-by-minute churn of news and information being issued from breaking-news bots on Twitter as well as  the usual cable-news suspects, like Fox News, CNN or Al Jazeera America. Getting up to speed in a new era of broadband-distributed content is paramount for TV-news players, who are seeing their audiences defect to social media and mobile devices to get the latest developments in sports, weather, business and news of national and international import.

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