In A Joint Venture With CBS, Pluto TV To Add Over 6000 Television Episodes To Its Live And On-Demand Programming Library

Pluto TV announced today that they’re upping their programming game by adding 6,300 episodes from legendary CBS franchises to the platform by year’s end. This will more than triple the amount of CBS content currently available on-demand on Pluto TV.

By the end of 2022, viewers will be able to access several classic CBS series on the platform for the first time. The shows include Cheers, Frasier, and Star Trek. New seasons and episodes for other existing series already on the platform will also be added, including Hawaii-Five-O, Criminal Minds, Rachael Ray, The Twilight Zone, and more.

Pluto TV, a ParamountPARA
Company, is the leading free streaming television service with a combination of hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience of nearly 70 million monthly active users.

The Emmy ® award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with over 400 international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids and much more. Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV’s growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 30 countries and territories.

CBS creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company, a subsidiary of Paramount Global, has businesses that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. It includes some of the industry’s most successful and popular brands and businesses: CBS Television Network, CBS News and Stations, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, CBS Media Ventures and CBS digital properties.

CBS and Pluto TV, both Paramount Global companies, have developed an increasingly successful partnership, marrying their collective expertise to super-serve audiences worldwide.

In just three years’ time, CBS’ residency on Pluto TV has grown from an initial offering of 3 channels to over 40 to-date including over 100 series on the platform featuring best-in-class programming, groundbreaking news, sports, classics, daytime and more.

Last year, CBS added the rolling four to Pluto TV, offering the most recent four in-season episodes of prime-time series for viewers to stream on-demand, for free. All of this has resulted in CBS becoming the number one driver of audience engagement and revenue on the Pluto TV platform with even more programming launching over the next few months.

According to Nielsen’s recently issued monthly report, The Gauge, Pluto TV is the first FAST (Free, Ad-Supported Streaming TV) service to cross the 1% share threshold and break out of the “other streaming” category capturing 1% of total TV usage across broadcast, cable and streaming. (Nielsen, The Gauge)

About today’s announcement, Tom Ryan, President & CEO, Paramount Streaming, says, “With unrivaled access to the coveted CBS library, Pluto TV is able to deliver the best of both worlds to our viewers – world-class, evergreen programming with flexible viewing options, all for free.”

“Pluto TV and CBS are a great example of how having a BIG network and studio partnered closely with a FAST platform can supercharge our streaming ecosystem,” said George Cheeks, President and CEO, CBS. “Both of our teams are continually benefitting from insights and learnings around FAST programming performance to help define future strategies that benefit each of our businesses. The overwhelming success of the CSI and 48 Hours channels on Pluto TV are just two recent examples of how our broadcast franchises are connecting with a growing and often unduplicated streaming audience. We think we’re just getting started in how we can work together with Pluto TV for the benefit of our content and the company.”

New Channels & Series Coming to Pluto TV throughout November & December:

· Frasier (Sitcom Legends)

· Cheers (Sitcom Legends)

· Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek channel)

· Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (More Star Trek channel)

· Have Gun – Will Travel (Westerns TV channel)

· The Wild Wild West (Westerns TV channel)

· Petticoat Junction (Classic TV Comedy channel)

New seasons and new series coming to Pluto TV On-Demand:

The Andy Griffith Show

Becker

Beverly Hillbillies

Beverly Hills 90210

Brady Bunch

Charmed

Criminal Minds

CSI: Miami

CSI: New York

Diagnosis Murder

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Everybody Hates Chris

Family Ties

Flashpoint

The Fugitive

Girlfriends

Gunsmoke

Half & Half

Have Gun Will Travel

Hawaii Five-O

Hot Bench

JAG

Laverne & Shirley

The Love Boat

MacGyver

Man With A Plan

Matlock

Mission Impossible

Moesha

Mork & Mindy

Numbers

The Odd Couple

One On One

The Parkers

Perry Mason

Pink Collar Crimes

Rachael Ray

Rescue 911

Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Scorpion

Sister, Sister

Taxi

Touched By An Angel

The Twilight Zone

Webster

The Wild Wild West

Wings

WoW – Women Of Wrestling