Charter Communications this week announced a new multi-year carriage agreement with CBS that includes retransmission consent of CBS-owned stations across the country and authenticated streaming rights for CBS and Showtime programming.
The long-term deal includes carriage pacts for Showtime, Smithsonian Channel and CBS Sports Network, as well.
Charter’s Spectrum subscribers will have access to CBS and Showtime programming via TV Everywhere and video-on-demand. The company said it now has rights to live authenticated streaming on CBS.com, the CBS app and Charter’s authenticated platform.
“We are pleased to have reached this agreement with CBS that reflects the importance and breadth of Charter’s distribution and provides us expanded rights to provide our customers increased access to CBS’ content both inside and, now for the first time, outside the home as well,” Tom Montemagno, EVP of programming acquisition at Charter, said in a statement.
Retransmission consent rights of CBS-owned stations covered under the agreement include Charter markets in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston and Minneapolis-St. Paul, along with CBS-owned The CW affiliates in Tampa and Atlanta.
“We are very pleased to extend and expand our partnership with Charter, which clearly recognizes the value CBS’ industry-leading content brings to their viewers throughout the country,” said CBS Corp. COO Joseph Ianniello. “This latest deal once again helps us achieve our Company’s economic and strategic goals, while delivering must-have content to viewers live and on demand whenever and wherever they want.”
