Thursday, July 28, 2016

CBS All Access and Showtime streaming services have about 1 million subscribers each

CBS's bold experiment in over-the-top TV streaming is paying off. The company says its All Access and Showtime subscription services have 2 million total subscribers, with user bases evenly split between the two. "That’s well ahead of where we’d thought we’d be this early in the game," CBS CEO Les Moonves said today on the company's quarterly earnings call, according to The Wrap.

All Access was the first internet TV service to launch from one of the major big-name networks. It costs $5.99 a month and it's remained limited to US customers since its debut in October 2014. It was followed close behind by HBO's standalone Now service, though no other competing non-cable network has followed suit.

With the addition of Showtime OTT...

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