“There’s
a tremendous opportunity on these platforms for a true round-the-clock
newscast. We’re confident this service will appeal to both traditional news
consumers and a whole new set of viewers”
CBS CEO Les Moonves
commenting on November 6th, 2014 during the launch of CBSN, their
24-hour Streaming News Portal available on its Website and via its CBS Apps
Its
official folks!
CBS has now stepped into the 21st Century by fully embracing Streaming and the power of Global Internet Traffic to power the first true 24-hour Streaming News Portal site with Advertising Revenue.
CBS has now stepped into the 21st Century by fully embracing Streaming and the power of Global Internet Traffic to power the first true 24-hour Streaming News Portal site with Advertising Revenue.
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CBS has upped the ante on Thursday November 6th
2014 with a 24-hour Streaming News Portal on its Website and via its CBS Apps called CBSN as reported in the article “CBS
just launched a 24-hour streaming news channel”, published November 6, 2014
10:14 am by Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge.
It's
up, fresh as a daisy from 9am to midnight Eastern every weekday, making CBSN technically the First Digital
Streaming News Channel on the face of the Planet Earth.
CBSN Streaming News
Portal - More CBS More Often sponsored by Advertisers
CBS has already rolled out CBS All Access in US of A costing
only US$5.99 per month exclusively for Americans as announced on Thursday
October 16th 2014 as detailed in my blog article
entitled “US$5.99
CBS All Access Live in US of A - How HBO Streaming by 2015 will beat Netflix as
Jamaican Local TV and Radio Stations unprepared for Digicel and LIME TV”.
CBS seems to have suddenly realized that the
rest of the World would also like to share in watching CBS News, much as many Jamaicans already stream Television Jamaica as
well as CVM TV via their Web
Portals.
In
so doing, on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, they’ve basically
torn down another wall between themselves and the rest of the World as opined in
the article “CBS
Leaps Into Streaming News: Tearing Down Another Wall?”, published Howard
Homonoff on 11/11/2014 9:56AM, Forbes.
CBSN is very similar in concept to RJR Communications Group planned TVJ Everywhere
Streaming Platform as explained in my blog article
entitled “RJR
Communications Group Launching TVJ Everywhere - How Streaming TVJ Everywhere
will boost Advertising Revenue as Digicel and LIME TV coming”, which should
have launched in October 2014 bus probably has been postponed due to a lack of local
content to fill up a 24 hour timeslot!
CBSN for Internationals
- Roku and Amazon Fire TV new channel, Browser users Bookmark
It's
also a smart move to make it free to stream from the rest of the World, as the
portal mainly makes revenue from American and International Commercials, as the
traffic to the Streaming website Portal must be phenomenal.
However,
unlike out local Web streaming Portals, CBSN
is on 24 hours a day, not certain times of the day like Television Jamaica or CVM TV. Also, it's NOT American
programming form CBS but rather a potpourri
of CBS Sports News and their local TV
affiliates scattered across the Continental US of A. You still get breaking
News reports on ANY major event that's going down in the USA as well as internationally,
making this a website that many will wanna bookmark!
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Best
of all for something that really an ad-sponsored freebie for Internationals, it
has advanced program skip options that allow you to skip old content, almost
like a cloud-based DVR (Digital Video Recorder).
It's
also gonna be poppin' up on your Roku and the Amazon Fire TV as an additional
Channel, which has recently sprouted a little sibling, the Amazon Fire Stick as
reported in “Amazon
takes on Chromecast with new $39 Fire TV Stick”, published October 27, 2014
09:18 am By Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge.
Want
to try it out now?
It's
available on the CBS Android, Google Chrome
and Windows 8 App, with updates coming for Apple users. International like
myself living in Jamaica can finally watch CBS
News without having to use a VPN or a Proxy as explained in my blog article entitled
“Surfing
the Internet Anonymously using VPN - How to use Streaming Set Top Boxes over
VPN”.
However,
I’d recommend as CBS rolls out yet another Streaming
Service, they need to consolidate all those other Web Apps and Apps on the Google
Play Store and the Apple
iTunes App Store into CBS All
Access and CBSN Web Portal.
Here's
the Link:
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