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Paramount Plus Will Bring ‘South Park’ Home

Paramount Plus will reunite with some of the biggest shows and movies from its parent company, including South Park and Showtime programming. But owner Paramount Global wouldn’t specify when — or even if — Yellowstone, the hit cowboy drama on the Paramount Network, would stream on Paramount Plus, where it is conspicuously absent in the …

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Paramount Plus Has 32.8M Members, Spilling Stats for the First Time

Paramount Plus had 32.8 million subscribers at the end of last year, parent company ViacomCBS said Tuesday, the first time it has ever broken out its subscriber base. Combined with other streaming services at the company, ViacomCBS has 56 million global streaming subscribers total.  For context, Paramount Plus’ membership is underneath that of market leader Netflix, at 221.8 million, and …

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Paramount Plus to Merge Showtime Content Into Single App

Paramount Plus and Showtime content will be available to stream in one app beginning this summer. ViacomCBS — now known as Paramount — announced the change Tuesday.  Paramount Plus has been part of the streaming wars along with Disney Plus, HBO Max, Apple TV Plus, Peacock, Discovery Plus and Netflix. As the competition for subscriber attention heats up, the service continues to roll out its growing slate of …

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HBO owner WarnerMedia sees merger with Discovery closing before July

AT&T’s WarnerMedia division — home to streaming service HBO Max, the Warner Bros. movie studio and TV channels like HBO, CNN, TBS and more — expects to close its deal to merge with Discovery in the second quarter, slightly earlier than planned, AT&T CEO John Stankey said Wednesday. Discovery is known for reality shows and other unscripted programming on its cable networks and its own streaming …

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Paramount Plus adds new curated ‘live’ channels

Paramount Plus is adding a new (but also kind of old) way for people to watch TV and movies on the streaming service.  People will now be able to tune into live channels with all-day programming of its content centered on a theme, ViacomCBS, the service’s parent company, said on Thursday. “Even in the era of on-demand, there is clearly …

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Paramount Plus: Stream Man United’s Champions League match (but not Yellowstone)

Paramount Plus launched in March as the replacement for CBS All Access, with a big library of shows and movies, plus exclusive originals and some sports — include a live stream of Machester United playing Villarreal in the Champions League Tuesday. But Paramount Plus doesn’t have the single show most associated with the Paramount name: Yellowstone. The first three seasons of the …

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Paramount Plus, Showtime launch discounted bundles packaging both services

Paramount Plus and Showtime’s parent company has launched a discounted streaming bundle that packages both together, ViacomCBS said Tuesday, and they’re available at promotional prices for about a month. A bundle with ad-free Paramount Plus and Showtime packaged together is $13 a month, $8 cheaper than what you’d pay for the equivalent services separately. A packaging bundling ad-supported Paramount Plus and …

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Paramount Plus rolls out its different cheaper tier without live CBS

Paramount Pluson Monday rolled out the new version of its ad-supported tier, which is a dollar cheaper per month but removes access to live CBS programming. It also offered a new extended free trial for either of its plans, giving people a month of free service rather than the standard week, starting Thursday.  The extended free period requires signing up …

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Paramount Plus’ $5 tier with ads (but not live CBS) to launch Monday

Paramount Plus’ tweaked version of its ad-supported tier — one that is a dollar cheaper per month than the current option but removes access to live CBS programming — will launch Monday, according to an FAQ on the streaming service’s help site.  Currently, Paramount Plus costs $10 a month or $100 annually to stream ad-free on a premium tier, or it’s $6 …

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Paramount Plus to cost $10 ad

Paramount Plus, a new streaming service replacing CBS All Access next week, will cost $10 a month to stream ad free on a premium tier when it launches March 4, and it will add a cheaper, $5-a-month “base” tier in June that is supported by advertising.  That cheaper tier marks a $1 discount to CBS All Access’ entry-level price, but this base …

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