It’s been an excited couple of weeks for cord-cutters. First HBO announced that it’ll soon be offering a standalone online streaming service that won’t require a cable subscription and then, shortly after the announcement, CBS launched its own streaming service, called All Access, for $5.99 per month.
Now CBS has taken things a step further by announcing that its own premium television network and top competitor to HBO, Showtime, will also be getting a standalone online streaming service, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the pricing hasn’t been announced, it will undoubtedly be revealed sometime after HBO announces its own pricing.
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves says that the service will launch sometime in 2015, which is just as ambiguous as HBO’s announcement, but is still an exciting announcement, especially for fans of shows like Homeland and Masters of Sex who have grown tired of paying ridiculous prices that cable providers charge for bundles.
“There’s many millions of people out there on college campuses, the cord-nevers, the cord-cutters … and there are 10 million broadband-only consumers out there, and we expect to be able to get those people and reach those people,” Moonves said, as quoted by USA Today. “We could say fairly definitively, sometime in ’15, there will be some service from Showtime.”
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