CBS and Verizon land retransmission agreement for VOD content

by Darren Murph posted Jan 13th 2009 at 3:19PM

FiOS TV lovers who enjoy dipping into CBS' stash of on-demand content are sure to love this. The aforesaid network and Verizon have just signed long-term retransmission-consent and program-carriage agreements that will give the operator VOD access to hit shows such as CSI and Survivor along with mobile access to select programs via V CAST. The so-called "broadened and extended" rights do not appear to include Showtime content, but they do include rights for high-definition versions of the material that the deal encompasses. And really, that's all you care about, right?

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Tags: cbs, fios, fios tv, FiosTv, retrans, retransmission, verizon, video on demand, video-on-demand, VideoOnDemand, vod

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Multi-format-mayhem @ Jan 13th 2009 3:46PM

More and more VOD and HD FiOS stories.

Yeah, that digital distribution future is just so far away, even in the USA, eh?

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