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CBS to launch the Local edition of CBSN for DMA'a with CBS O&O's

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https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/cbs-launching-local-news-streaming-service

Note the initial CBS Owned stations to do a local edition of CBSN is WCBS in New York and KCBS in Los Angeles.
Eventually all other CBS O&O's will do a local edition of CBSN.

First market is New York, followed by Los Angeles
Jon Lafayette6 hours ago
CBS said it plans to launch CBSN Local, local news streaming services in markets starting in the fourth quarter with New York, followed by Los Angeles.

The launch follows what the company calls the success of CBSN, the 24 hour streaming news service from CBS News and the CBS Interactive.

The new service will be ad supported. CBS is also in the streaming business with its subscription product CBS All-Access and CBS Sports HQ.


CBS All Access subscribers will get CBSN Local feeds from their local market.

“CBSN Local is the exciting next chapter in how our stations will serve audiences seeking local news on all of the most popular content consumption platforms,” said Peter Dunn, president, CBS Television Stations. “These streaming local news services will be a terrific companion to the award-winning national and global news reporting provided by CBSN. Working together, we look forward to making the outstanding local news coverage produced by our stations available to a wider audience, anytime and anywhere people want to view it.”

In New York CBSN Local will work with WCBS-TV and WLNY-TV. In Los Angeles, CBSN Local will get contribution from KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV.

Each CBSN Local service will have live streams of CBS Television Station’s early morning, daytime and evening newscasts, plus additional daily newscasts produced exclusively for CBSN Local, CBSN Local will also have coverage of breaking news and a library of content for on-demand viewing.

Local programming on CBSN Local will be led by anchors and reporters at CBS TV stations.
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Yes this is CBS attempt to go after News on for viewers.
 
It also provides fresh content at the CBSLocal websites that are no longer home to the CBS radio stations. I bet their overall web traffic was down after they uncoupled. Radio was actively driving traffic 24/7 in a way the TV stations don't.

If it works the way CBSNews.com works, the minute you log on to your local TV site, the video player will go live with local TV news.
 
WCBS has pretty much always had the lowest rated local news in the NYC market. I guess they are trying to beef up their offerings.
 
ansky212 said:
WCBS has pretty much always had the lowest rated local news in the NYC market. I guess they are trying to beef up their offerings.
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Well that's either WNYW or WPIX now.
 
Why wouldn't CBS add the national CBSN as a subchannel? Surely it's another platform for viewers to watch it. Even you'd think they would add it on their O&O stations?
 
zeebre12 said:
Why wouldn't CBS add the national CBSN as a subchannel? Surely it's another platform for viewers to watch it. Even you'd think they would add it on their O&O stations?
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I'm surprised that CBS didn't already add CBSN on an O&O subchannel a few years ago. This could replace CNN, MSNBC, and to a lesser extent, Fox News Channel for cord-cutters, and make cord-cutting more attractive if a nationwide all-news channel is on a subchannel of CBS O&Os and affiliates across the country. I like that their stream is free-to-air on web and the app, but it would eat up my internet cap(s) with extensive viewing.

Too bad the first terrestrial broadcast of CBSN will always be on KHOU here in Houston, as overnight filler programming in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. But there is also Start TV that will replace Decades on the CBS O&Os. Will that replace Decades instead or will a third subchannel will be added to accommodate both diginets?
 
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