CBS All Access

CBS All Access (known as 10 All Access in Australia) is an American streaming video service owned and operated by CBS Interactive, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS. It offers original content, content newly aired on CBS's broadcast properties, and content from the ViacomCBS library. In the United States, many markets offer a live stream of the local CBS affiliate's main channel. As of February 2019, it has more than 4 million subscribers.[1][2]

CBS All Access
Type of site
Streaming video
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersNew York City,
United States
Area served
OwnerCBS Interactive
(ViacomCBS)
URLwww.cbs.com/all-access/
RegistrationMonthly subscription required to access content
LaunchedOctober 28, 2014 (2014-10-28)

History

CBS All Access was launched on October 28, 2014, priced at US$5.99 per month with advertising and $9.99 per month without.[3][4][5][6] Announced on October 16, 2014, as the first over-the-top (OTT) offering by an American broadcast television network, the service initially encompassed the network's existing streaming portal at CBS.com and its mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers; CBS All Access became available on Roku on April 7, 2015, and on Chromecast on May 14, 2015.[7][8] In addition to providing full-length episodes of past and present of CBS programs, the service allows live programming streams of local CBS affiliates in 194 markets reaching 92% of the United States (including stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Hearst Television, Tegna Media, Nexstar Media Group, Meredith Corporation, Griffin Communications, Raycom Media, Weigel Broadcasting and Cox Media Group and the launch group of CBS Television Stations[9]), including SEC sports and the NFL; however due to the absence of streaming rights, a few sports events are not streamed on the service (mainly involving PGA Tour events, some locally programmed NFL preseason games, and select brokered shows through CBS Sports Spectacular), along with limited syndicated and paid programming where only a local broadcast license to carry the program is allowed and web airing rights are retained by the syndicator or infomercial producer.[10][11][12][13][14] By the very nature of its being live, streaming of a local affiliate does include all advertising, even with the commercial-free plan.

On December 1, 2016, CBS announced an agreement with the NFL to allow clearance of regional NFL games carried by CBS on CBS All Access from Week 13 of the 2016 NFL season on. At the time, the games were blacked out on non–Verizon Wireless mobile devices due to that provider's exclusivity agreement as part of their "official wireless provider" sponsorship of the league.[15] In the 2018 NFL season, a new agreement with Verizon ending that exclusivity began to allow CBS All Access to stream games to all mobile devices; Super Bowl games run on CBS All Access without the need for any authentication.

As of February 2017, the service had nearly 1.5 million subscribers.[16] In August 2017, CBS unveiled plans to expand CBS All Access to markets outside the United States. Canada was announced as the first international market to receive the service.[17] Plans to launch in Australia quickly followed, resulting from CBS's purchase of free-to-air broadcaster Network 10.[18]

In September 2017, Star Trek: Discovery debuted on streaming on CBS, and they also recorded a record number of sign-ups after this.[19] The records were the greatest number of single day, week, and monthly sign-up records since the streaming network's inception.[19] They reported the previous single-day record was held by the 2017 Grammy award ceremony coverage.[19] CBS was noted as harnessing the Star Trek fanbase which was willing to get the service just to see the series.[20]

Buoyed by Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access reached over 2 million subscribers by early 2018. The 60th Annual Grammy Awards also provided a boost to sign-ups, marking the second largest day for new subscriptions after the Discovery premiere.[21] In April 2018, CBS All Access was made available outside the United States for the first time when it was launched in Canada.[22]

10 All Access' logo

The service launched in Australia in December 2018 as 10 All Access. It operates alongside 10's free catch up and live streaming service 10 Play and contains a mixture of Network 10 and CBS programming. CBS shows are made available on All Access prior to being broadcast on 10's channels. 10 All Access is commercial-free and, unlike CBS All Access, has only one pricing tier.[23][24]

In January 2019, CBS reported its largest increase in subscribers over a weekend—a 72% increase over the premiere of Discovery, crediting the premiere of season 2 of the series and that week's AFC Championship Game (which also brought the service its largest streaming audience for a football game). Super Bowl LIII would surpass this record only a few weeks later, with CBS reporting an 84% increase in new subscribers.[25][26]

On November 25, 2019, as part of the re-merger between CBS Corporation and Viacom, CBS All Access announced the inclusion of programming from Nickelodeon, as part of the wider launch of children's programming on the service, with other partners including Boat Rocker Studios and WildBrain.[27][28]

On February 6, 2020, CNBC reported that ViacomCBS was in discussions to launch a larger premium streaming offering, combining CBS All Access with content from Paramount Pictures, the Domestic Media Networks division, and Pluto TV. The service would include an ad-free tier, and a premium tier that includes Showtime's streaming service. The company would maintain its existing streaming platforms, while marketing the new service to users of these other services.[29][30] ViacomCBS partially outlined these plans in a corporate earnings call on February 20, 2020, stating that the expanded All Access service would take a "house of brands" approach to content and serve as a mid-tier offering complementing Pluto TV (which would remain a free service) and the Showtime OTT service by "adding a broad pay offering, built on [All Access's] foundation." The expanded service will include content from MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, and Smithsonian Channel, as well as a library of 30,000 television series episodes and up to 1,000 film titles from Paramount's film and television divisions and CBS Television Distribution, and expanded live news and sports offerings. No pricing plan or firm dates for content expansion were disclosed, though a "soft [re]launch" will occur later in 2020. ViacomCBS will also continue to license its TV and film content to competing streaming platforms.[31][32]

On May 7, 2020, CBS All Access began adding more films to the service, starting with more than 100 from Paramount Pictures, and ViacomCBS announced that CBS All Access will expand internationally within twelve months.[33] On July 30, CBS All Access added several shows from ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks, introduced a new user interface, and revealed that Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (previously planned to air on Nickelodeon) would debut on the service in 2021.[34] CBS All Access will add multiple user profiles and parental controls later in 2020, and rename itself and split off from CBS in early 2021.[35]

Subscribers
SubscribersAs ofRef
Over 100,000Early 2015[36]
Around 1.2 millionDecember 2016[37]
Nearly 1.5 millionFebruary 2017[16]
Over 2 millionEarly 2018[38]
2.5 millionAugust 2018[1]
4 millionFebruary 2019[39]

Programming

Original programming
See also: List of CBS All Access original programming

On November 2, 2015, it was announced that the first CBS All Access original series would be a new Star Trek series in 2017, which is set in the original Star Trek universe.[40] The first season of Star Trek: Discovery consisted of 15 episodes.

On May 18, 2016, it was announced that The Good Wife would get a spin-off featuring Christine Baranski's character Diane Lockhart. The series, titled The Good Fight, launched with a CBS broadcast premiere on February 19, 2017, with the remaining nine episodes exclusive to CBS All Access.[41] The series became the first original drama on the platform when the Star Trek series premiere was delayed until the fall of 2017.[42]

On August 2, 2016, the announcement was made that an online version of Big Brother would air on CBS All Access in the fall of 2016. The announcement marked the first CBS television series set to air exclusively on the platform. It is also expected to be the first reality game show set to air exclusively on any streaming platform.[43] On August 10, 2016, CBS announced that Julie Chen would continue to serve as host, and then revealed the season to be called Big Brother: Over the Top.

In February 2019, CBS:AA announced they were planning a show based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation character Captain Jean-Luc Picard, to air before the end of the year.[2] The series was later announced as Star Trek: Picard, and premiered on January 23, 2020.[44][45] Other original shows in development include a project with Lucy Liu, as well as the continuation of existing shows such as Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight, and The Twilight Zone.[2]

The animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks is expected to premiere on August 6, 2020 on CBS All Access in the United States.[46][47][48]

As part of CBS All Access' expansion, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (following its premium video on demand window)[49] and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years will debut on the service in 2021.[35][34]

Sports programming

In March 2020, CBS and the National Women's Soccer League announced a three-year deal to broadcast games across the main CBS network, CBS Sports Network, and CBS All Access.[50] With the COVID-19 pandemic, the NWSL cancelled its regular season for 2020, opting to run just the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup instead, CBS All Access broadcast all games from the tournament with the opener and final which also airing on CBS.[51]

Syndicated and archived programming

The most recent episodes of the network's shows are usually made available on CBS.com and CBS All Access the day after their original broadcast.

CBS All Access provides complete back catalogs of most of its current series, including full-season "stacking rights" (with the exception of certain series, such as The Big Bang Theory, which CBS held only "last five" episode rights during its original run, as Warner Bros. retains all other rights as the show's distributor), as well as a wide selection of episodes of classic series from the CBS Television Distribution program library – including shows previously owned by Paramount Television made for both CBS and other networks prior to CBS's acquisition of its program library through the CBS-Viacom split (including the complete episode catalog of shows like Star Trek, Cheers, MacGyver, Twin Peaks and CSI: Miami) to subscribers of the service. CBS All Access also carries behind-the-scenes features from CBS programs and special events, and (beginning with the 17th season in June 2015) live feeds and special content from the reality series Big Brother.[4]

In mid-April 2017, a limited library of films, made up of content from Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sony Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company and CBS Films, was made available on the service. This includes several titles in the Star Trek film series. On May 7, 2020, CBS All Access added more than 100 films from Paramount Pictures;[52] more films were added in the coming months.

In August 2019, CBS All Access expanded into children's broadcasting by acquiring the US broadcast rights to Danger Mouse (1981) (as well as the reboot of the series), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and several other series by WildBrain.[53]

On July 30, 2020, CBS All Access added 56 shows from ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks.[35]

International

Outside of the United States, CBS All Access is currently available in Australia (as "10 All Access") and Canada. Due to program rights and existing content deals, several programs are not available on local versions, or have delayed availability for new episodes.[54] For example, Star Trek: Discovery and other shows from the franchise are licensed to Bell Media in Canada for their CTV Sci-Fi (in English) and Z (in French) channels and streaming service Crave.[55][54]

In August 2020, ViacomCBS announced plans to launch an expanded international streaming service using the CBS All Access technical architecture but under a new brand name in early 2021; it is not yet clear whether this will be the same new name to be applied to the American replacement to CBS All Access. The service will feature original programming from CBS All Access as well as Showtime, plus additional programming including Paramount Pictures films which may vary by market. The service will initially launch in Australia (replacing 10 All Access), as well as the Nordics and Latin America (replacing the movie-focused streaming service Paramount+), with additional markets to follow.[56] In Australia, while the relaunched service will premiere all new Showtime original programs going forward, currently-airing series will remain on Stan until their conclusion under an existing deal.[57]

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