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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Network | CBS News |
| Headquarters | CBS Broadcast Center Manhattan,New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HD) Downscaled to: 540p 360p 144p |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Global |
| Parent | Paramount Streaming |
| Sister channels | List
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| History | |
| Launched | November 6, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-11-06) |
| Former names | CBSN (2014–2022) CBS News (2022-2024) |
| Links | |
| Webcast | www |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| The Roku Channel | Channel 117 |
| Service(s) | Hulu + Live TV,Paramount+,Pluto TV,Samsung TV Plus,Sling Freestream,The Roku Channel |
CBS News 24/7 (formerly known asCBSN and theCBS News Streaming Network) is an Americanstreaming videonews channel operated by theCBS News andParamount Streaming divisions ofParamount Global. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks of live,rolling news coverage, original programs, as well as encore airings of CBS News television programs.
It is available on all streaming devices, via the CBS News website andmobile app, apps ondigital media players, co-ownedParamount+ andPluto TV, and otherfree ad-supported streaming television (FAST) services.
The success of CBSN prompted CBS to launch similar services for sports and entertainment news—CBS Sports HQ and ET Live—in 2018, in conjunction withCBS Sports andEntertainment Tonight respectively. In December of that year, CBS also began extending the concept to its localtelevision stations, launching streaming local news services in the markets of the network'sowned-and-operated stations.
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Rumors that CBS News was preparing a 24-hour online news service were first reported byBuzzFeed in October 2013, and later confirmed by a CBS spokesperson who stated that the company was seeking "partners" for the service. Initial reports suggested that the service would consist of a linear, multi-platformstreaming channel, featuring video content from other CBS News productions, along with other online-exclusive content;The New York Times likened the rumored format to anall-news radio station, combining pre-recorded video content with regular, live news updates.[1] On May 15, 2014,CBS Corporation CEOLeslie Moonves confirmed in an interview withBloomberg Television that the company was working on the service. Describing it as an "exciting alternative to cable news", he went on to say that "there is so much information that we get every day that doesn’t fit into a22-minute newscast at 6:30 orCBS This Morning".[2]
In October 2014,Capital New York reported that CBS had recently filed for trademarks on the nameCBSN as a potential name for the service. It also reported that the content would take place in an informalnewsroom setting, and that its interface would consist of a video player with a playlist on a sidebar, and featuresocial network integration.[3] On November 5, 2014, during aRe/code conference inDublin, CBS Interactive PresidentJim Lanzone announced that the service would officially launch on November 6, 2014.[4][5] CBS News PresidentDavid Rhodes explained that CBSN was not designed to compete directly with traditional pay-television news outlets, but to "create something that is native for connected devices", such assmartphones,tablets, anddigital media players.[3]
There was also an emphasis placed on targeting younger viewers, particularly those who are in places with little or no access to television, or those whodo not subscribe to pay television at all.[3] As opposed to CNNGo, a similarly formattedTV Everywhere service introduced byCNN prior to the launch of CBSN,[3] CBSN would be available at no charge without requiring users to authenticate with a subscription to a pay television provider. Rhodes argued that requiring authentication would hamper the service's viewership. CBSN uses commercial breaks similar to a conventional television channel;Amazon.com andMicrosoft were among the service's initial advertisers.[6][7]
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In September 2021, CBS announced that CBSN would be rebranded under the CBS News name later in the year; the usage of a single brand for both broadcast and digital news content followed a reorganization that placed all of CBS's news efforts, including at the CBS-owned stations, under the purview of the CBS News division asCBS News and Stations.[8][9]
The new branding premiered on January 24, 2022. At this time, the service moved to a new set at Studio 57 of the CBS Broadcast Center, which had been vacated by the replacement ofCBS This Morning with theTimes Square-basedCBS Mornings.[9] It was also accompanied by a slate of new original programming, some of which acting as spin-offs or revivals of segments from other CBS News programs. They include the documentary franchiseCBS Reports,The Dish (based on the segment fromCBS Saturday Morning),Eye on America,Here Comes the Sun (which features segments and unaired material fromCBS News Sunday Morning),On The Road with Steve Hartman, and the interview seriesPerson-to-Person withNorah O'Donnell.[10] While the service was primarily branded under the CBS News name, the service was officially referred to by CBS as the "CBS News Streaming Network".[11][12]
In April 2024, CBS News announced a rebranding of the service asCBS News 24/7 on April 22, which accompanied an expansion of the service's live daily programming.[13]
The success of CBSN led CBS to launchCBS Sports HQ, a similar service devoted to sports news, on February 26, 2018. It provides sports news headlines, game previews, highlights and post-game analysis, and in-depth team, player and game statistics—utilizes resources fromCBS Sports and its various digital properties.[14]
ET Live, anentertainment andpop culture news service based on the CBS-produced syndicated programEntertainment Tonight, was launched on October 31, 2018. Developed in collaboration between CBS Interactive andET distributorCBS Television Distribution, the service covers entertainment news headlines and breaking news, celebrity interviews, feature segments, behind-the-scenes and red carpet coverage, and trends in celebrity fashion, beauty and lifestyle. ET Live utilizes complementary standalone presenters complementary to those featured onEntertainment Tonight—some of whom serve as on-air contributors for the syndicated broadcast—with the parent series' main hosts and correspondents appearing in segments promoting stories scheduled to be shown on the on-air broadcast.[15] In July 2022, ET Live was rebranded as Mixible, maintaining a similar scope, but with contributions by other Paramount properties.[16]
Following the successful launches of CBSN and other streaming services, CBS created local, direct-to-consumer extensions of CBSN run byCBS Local Digital, in order to bring streaming anchored local and national news coverage across allCBS Television Stations on a 24/7 basis.[17][18] The services stream existing CBSN national coverage—which is also used as an overnight and weekend backup feed for the CBSN Local outlets—in conjunction with live streams of local broadcasts and continuing coverage performed by the owned-and-operated stations.[19] All services are supported by ad revenue.[20] All CBSN Local services are available via Paramount+, CBS News, Pluto and local station websites and apps. The services are available nationally, and are not limited to their respective regions.[21]
Pluto TV—which already carried the main CBSN service—began carrying CBSN New York and CBSN Los Angeles as well as ET Live and CBS Sports HQ on its lineup on November 12, 2019. The carriage came as thefree ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service was in the process of becoming a sister property to CBS as part of CBS Corporation'smerger withViacom (which, earlier that year, had acquired Pluto TV from namesake parent Pluto Inc.),[22] which was completed on December 4, 2019.[23] On March 29, 2021, CBS-owned independent stationKTXA in theDallas–Fort Worth market began simulcasting CBSN Dallas-Ft. Worth on its second subchannel (21.2), becoming the first over-the-air simulcast of CBSN programming.
As of January 2023[update], CBS Local operates streaming services in 14 markets:
| Service | Station branding | Launch date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CBS News New York | CBS 2 / CBS New York | December 13, 2018[19] | Programming led byWCBS-TV andWLNY-TV.[18] |
| CBS News Los Angeles | KCAL / CBS Los Angeles | June 10, 2019[24] | Programming led byKCBS-TV andKCAL-TV.[24] |
| CBS News Boston | WBZ / CBS Boston | September 24, 2019[20] | Programming led byWBZ-TV andWSBK-TV.[20] |
| CBS News Bay Area | KPIX / CBS Bay Area | November 18, 2019[25] | Programming led byKPIX-TV andKPYX.[25] |
| CBS News Minnesota | WCCO / CBS Minnesota | December 12, 2019[26] | Programming led byWCCO-TV.[26] |
| CBS News Philadelphia | CBS 3 / CBS Philadelphia | January 30, 2020[27] | Programming led byKYW-TV andWPSG.[27] |
| CBS News Colorado | CBS Colorado | February 19, 2020[28] | Programming led byKCNC-TV.[28][a] |
| CBS News Pittsburgh | KDKA-TV / CBS Pittsburgh | March 5, 2020[29] | Programming led byKDKA-TV andWPKD-TV.[30] |
| CBS News Chicago | CBS Chicago | April 21, 2020[31] | Programming led byWBBM-TV.[31] |
| CBS News Texas | CBS 11 / CBS Texas | May 18, 2020[32] | Programming led byKTVT andKTXA.[32][b] |
| CBS News Sacramento | CBS 13 / KMAX 31 | June 16, 2021[33] | Programming led byKOVR andKMAX-TV.[33] |
| CBS News Baltimore | WJZ / CBS Baltimore | August 23, 2021[34] | Programming led byWJZ-TV.[34] |
| CBS News Miami | CBS 4 / CBS Miami | January 24, 2022[35] | Programming led byWFOR-TV andWBFS-TV.[35] |
| CBS News Detroit | CBS Detroit | January 23, 2023[36] | Programming simulcast onWWJ-TV andWKBD-TV.[37] |
By early 2020, CBS had planned to launch CBSN Local services across the remaining markets featuring a news-producing owned-and-operated station that did not yet operate the streaming service.[25]
CBS has not announced any plans to make CBS News Local available in three other markets with a CBS Television Stations property:Tacoma–Seattle (KSTW),Tampa–St. Petersburg (WTOG) andAtlanta (WUPA), all standalone stations in markets where the CBS affiliates are owned by other companies (those stations being, respectively,Cox Media'sKIRO,Tegna-ownedWTSP, andGray Television'sWANF). In December 2019, it was first reported that CBS was looking to hire journalists for some of the aforementioned stations.[38] The following month, CBS announced it was launching 10 p.m. weeknight newscasts at WKBD, WUPA, and WTOG hubbed out of KTVT, WCBS, and WFOR, respectively, and confirmed the newly hired multimedia journalists would help produce stories.[39] The decision was due in part to the rising demand for newscasts from viewers and advertisers alike, and to the successful rollout of CBSN Local thus far.[39][40] During theCOVID-19 pandemic in the United States, WUPA's 10 p.m. newscast began airing a simulcast of WSBK's 10 p.m. newscast, after CBS suspended all operations at theCBS Broadcast Center in New York City. Five months later, the WSBK simulcast ended and KTVT began producing newscasts for WUPA.[41][42][43] In July 2022, the WKBD, WUPA, and WTOG newscasts were replaced by new programs under theNow title, which featured a mixture of local segments, and national segments produced from KTVT; similar programs were concurrently launched on KSTW, WLNY-TV in New York, WSBK-TV in Boston, WPSG in Philadelphia, KTXA in Dallas–Fort Worth, KBCW in San Francisco, and WBFS-TV in Miami.[44][45]
The CBSN Local services were rebranded under the CBS News name concurrently with the 2022 rebranding of the national service;[9] their names were not changed when the national service was renamed CBS News 24/7.[46] CBS News and Stations co-presidentWendy McMahon stated, in an interview withVariety coinciding with the rebranding, that CBS planned to produce 45,000 hours of local programming for the local streams by the end of 2022, includinghigh school sports coverage.[47] The services' names were incorporated into the titles of theNow newscasts in markets where CBS maintains a full news operation.[44]
*Exclusive to CBS News 24/7.
According to Moonves, CBSN is designed primarily to leverage the resources of CBS News and other CBS-owned entities to "create exciting, highly competitive new services that meet evolving audience preferences for content consumption"; viewers can watch CBSN live as a linear service, or watch previous segments on-demand.[48]
CBSN's programming was impacted by the temporary shutdown of theCBS Broadcast Center in early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. For two weeks in March 2020, CBSN did not produce its regular programming, with CBSN Boston being simulcast on the national service for much of the day.[49] During this time, CBS's stations in Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles produced national CBSN newscasts from their local facilities, and certain CBS News programs, such asCBS This Morning, were simulcast with the CBS network rather than delayed.[21] The shutdown of the CBS Broadcast Center also limited CBSN New York's programming[50] and forced WUPA's 10 p.m. newscast hubbed out of WCBS to become a simulcast of WSBK's 10 p.m. newscast as a substitute.[51]
As part of the rebranding to the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS announced an expanded lineup of programming that includes revivals ofPerson to Person (hosted by then-CBS Evening News anchorNorah O'Donnell) andCBS Reports;Here Comes The Sun (which featured highlightedSunday Morning segments);The Uplift, focused on inspirational stories; and programs based on theEye on America andOn the Road segments of theCBS Evening News. Existing programming such asRed & Blue expanded their use of CBS News correspondents, and material from60 Minutes and48 Hours are featured in the service'sprime time programming.[47] On September 6, 2022,CBS News Prime Time withJohn Dickerson began airing as part of the service's evening lineup on Mondays through Thursdays;[52] on Fridays, the program's timeslot is occupied byCBS News Weekender.[53]Red & Blue was replaced with a new political program,America Decides, on May 1, 2023.[54]
In April 2024, alongside the announced rebranding as CBS News 24/7, CBS also announced plans for new and expanded programming, includingAmerica Decides andPrime Time with John Dickerson being extended to 60 and 90 minutes respectively (with the latter also being retitledThe Daily Report with John Dickerson), and the upcoming new showsCBS News 24/7 (promoted as the "backbone" of the service and leveraging the local and national resources of CBS News in a "whiparound" format),CBS News Confirmed (which will focus onfact-checking), and the new late-night bulletinCBS News Roundup.[13][55]CBS News Roundup also serves as the CBS network's overnight news program.[56] Thus far,The Daily Report (now anchored by Lindsey Reiser) remains 60 minutes long andCBS News Confirmed has not materialized as a full show; rather, it is included as a segment in other programs.
On September 4, 2024, CBS announced a third hour ofCBS Mornings for the service beginning September 30,CBS Mornings Plus. The hour also airs on selected CBS stations.[57][58]
After anchor changes at theCBS Evening News, a new half-hour extension known asCBS Evening News Plus was introduced in February 2025, which is anchored solely by John Dickerson.[59][60][61]
CBS assigns both dedicated anchors and existing CBS News correspondents as anchors for CBS News 24/7 programs.