CBS News Overhauls Streaming Service
Talent like Norah O'Donnell and Tony Dokoupil will host streaming shows, including revivals of Edward R. Murrow's 'Person-to-Person' and doc series 'CBS Reports.'
Streaming outlet will be produced by the WFOR team.
CBS also announced an expansion of its streaming local news offerings, with CBS News Miami launching Monday, and CBS News Detroit to launch by the end of 2022, bringing the total number of local news streaming services to 14. McMahon tells THR that they will be expanding the number of live news hours from 30,000 in 2021 to 45,000 by the end of 2022
“From a news and public service strategy, we understand that our audiences are changing, we see that our communities are evolving, if our purpose is to empower and connect our communities one neighborhood at a time, then we must be able to tell the stories of our neighborhoods across platforms,” McMahon says.