CBS App Allows for Streaming of Full Episodes

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation has launched an app for the iPhone and iPad that offers full-episode streaming of hit prime-time, daytime and late night shows.

The app is available for download from the App Store. It delivers original and second-screen features for popular CBS shows such as NCIS, The Good Wife, How I Met Your Mother, The Young & The Restless and The Late Show with David Letterman. CBS also announced that it would include similar full-streaming apps for all major mobile and tablet platforms later this year.

“We have been methodically and strategically finding new ways to satiate the appetite for our content on new platforms, while tapping into the tremendous revenue provided by doing so,” said Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS Corporation. “Our announcement today achieves both of these objectives, while protecting our very healthy current ecosystem. In addition, by making our shows available on all the leading mobile devices out there, we are confident we will bring a whole new set of viewers to the CBS Television Network and build upon our standing as the number one network in the business.”
 
“Our online viewers not only want to watch their favorite shows on multiple devices, they want deeper engagement with the programs they love,” added Jim Lanzone, the president of CBS Interactive. “The new CBS App gives them the best of both worlds, letting people watch CBS shows on the best screen available for them, with a host of extra features that give them a richer viewing experience whenever and wherever they tune in.”