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CBS Has Launched a $6 Per Month Streaming Option

CBS today jumped into the increasingly-crowded streaming video fray by announcing that the company would be launching a streaming service of their own. CBS's new service will offer users access to 15 primetime shows the day after they have aired on broadcast and cable -- for $6 a month. Dubbed CBS All Access, the service is being heavily promoted on the CBS website today, though it's initially only available in fourteen metro markets (listed here).

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According to the company, live streams will feature the same ads seen on broadcast TV, despite the subscription. Catalogs of on demand shows will also feature some ads, though in reduced number. Shows no longer being aired will have no advertisements.

“CBS All Access is another key step in the Company’s long-standing strategy of monetizing our local and national content in the ways that viewers want it,” said Leslie Moonves, CBS Corporation’s president and chief executive in a prepared statement.

That dedication to giving viewers what they want has included CBS's decision to sue Dish for letting consumers automatically skip ads, suing Aereo, and threatening to stop over-the-air broadcasts each time a disruptive concept arrives to disrupt the status quo.

You can check out the CBS All Access FAQ here.

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Ga Dawg
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Good luck with that

$6 a month for just one channel that I can watch for free with an antenna. I don't see this going anywhere.