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CBS Says Showtime, CBS All Access Each Have 1 Million Subs

CBS says the company's push into streaming video is paying dividends. Speaking on the company's earnings call this week, CBS CEO Les Moonves said that CBS All Access and Showtime Anytime, the company's $11 per month have around 1 million subscribers each. Launched in late 2014, CBS All Access will run you $6 a month, but provides on demand, streaming access to more than 7,500 total episodes from CBS' past and current programming catalog.

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Showtime Anytime costs $11 per month (less sometimes if purchased through Hulu or another third party), and provides access to Showtime's current and past catalog of content.

Both options were a sharp turnaround for a company that sued Dish for letting consumers automatically skip ads, sued Aereo, and consistently threatened to stop over-the-air broadcasts every time a disruptive concept arrived to threaten the status quo. But CBS CEO Les Moonves says the decision to give consumers more options has exceeded expectations.

"That’s well ahead of where we’d thought we’d be this early in the game," CBS CEO Les Moonves said on the company's earnings call.

The efforts haven't been without their hiccups; such as when CBS All Access effectively bungled the Grammy Awards. Still, CBS All Access should specifically get a big boost early next year when the new "Star Trek" TV series debuts -- with CBS retaining the exclusive US streaming rights.

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r81984
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r81984

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Exclusive Streaming Rights?

Having exclusive streaming rights for Star Trek means everyone will just download it. CBS can make much more money by allowing other popular services like Netflix and Amazon also have it.
They will be severely limiting their audience which could tank the show even when it is good. I hope they dont purposely tank the show as it seems like they want to.
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Snakeoil
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My opinion

I sub to CBS. I dislike the interface and the fact that there are a lot more commercials then what NBC injects into the shows it streams from free from it's web portal.

I remain subbed, because I don't want to acquire the shows I watch on CBS through "other means". I know to many here it is no big deal, but to me it is.

I will add that strangely enough, my local CBS feed on Vue is live, unlike the other networks, which are on demand.
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