Pushing Up the CBSN Local Rollout

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CBS says that their CBSN Local has been successful enough that they are accelerating the rollout of the direct-to-consumer streaming news services.

CBS says it will be available in all 13 markets where CBS Television Stations have local news operations.

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“The early success of CBSN New York and CBSN Los Angeles has exceeded our expectations,” said Peter Dunn, President, CBS Television Stations. “It is clear there is significant demand for high-quality local news coverage on streaming services, and we are moving forward with excitement as we prepare to launch CBSN Local services in all 13 of our local news markets. Our accelerated rollout schedule ensures launches in all of these markets ahead of the 2020 political primaries and elections.”

CBS launched the news services when CBSN New York debuted in December 2018 and CBSN Los Angeles went live in June 2019. CBSN Boston is expected to launch soon, with CBSN San Francisco Bay Area scheduled to make its debut during the fourth quarter of this year.

The rest of the O&O’s are expected to be online by early next year.

The nine markets included in this expanded launch plan are Chicago (local news content provided by WBBM-TV), Dallas-Ft. Worth (KTVT-TV), Philadelphia (KYW and WPSG-TV), Minneapolis-St. Paul (WCCO-TV), Denver (KCNC-TV), Miami (WFOR-TV), Sacramento (KOVR and KMAX-TV), Pittsburgh (KDKA and WPCW-TV) and Baltimore (WJZ-TV).