For the first time, CBS has disclosed how many subscribers it has for its over-the-top offerings. CBS CEO Les Moonves, speaking on the company's earnings call Thursday afternoon, s... More
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Moonves Says CBS, Showtime Have 2 Million Total OTT Subs (B&C)
Content Companies Commend Box-Ditching Effort (B&C)
Major content companies 21st Century Fox, Time Warner, Viacom, CBS and Scripps offered their support for the basics of cable operators' "ditch the box" set-top proposal in meetings... More
CBS CEO: Network TV’s ‘Never Been Stronger’
The supposed death of broadcast TV was premature and network TV has “never been stronger,” CBS CEO Les Moonves told the Needham Emerging Technology Conference in New York on Ma... More
CBS Will Not Binge-Stream New ‘Star Trek’ Series (HMM)
CBS confirmed that the new “Star Trek” TV series will begin shooting in Toronto this fall, and stream exclusively on CBS All Access beginning in the first-quarter of 2017. The ... More
CBS Bets Big on Star Trek, But Will Need Data to Win the OTT Game (StreamingMedia)
Last month, CBS announced that its subscription-based video-on-demand service, CBS All Access, and live streaming will include Nielsen measuring capabilities. A few short weeks lat... More
How CBS Uses Data to Program its 24-hour Streaming News Network (Digiday)
Another way data is influencing CBSN content is in the content presentation itself. Per CBS News, the average age of a CBSN viewer is under 40. The idea, then, was to be a little l... More
New Distribution Windows Change Studios’ Profit Equation
by Marcy Magiera As networks and studios take advantage of myriad new ways to distribute content, they face greater challenges in managing windows to extract maximum profit from e... More