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Argus Capital Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company created by former CBS CEO Joe Ianniello, head of CBS Interactive Marc DeBevoise and other CBS alums, has gone public. The SPAC, which is targeting deals in what it describes as “tech-driven media” sector, is offering investors 26.5 million units, priced at $10…

ViacomCBS has taken the wraps off an expanded version of CBS All Access, described as a “preview” of a rebranding of the streaming service in early 2021. The newly fortified offering adds about 3,500 episodes of programming. Enhanced personalization and discovery features accompany a new user interface promoting…

CBS has added 2 million subscribers to its CBS All Access and Showtime streaming services in the last 12 months. The broadcaster revealed the new subscribers figures as part of a general update on the digital service during Marc DeBevoise and Julie McNamara’s executive session at the TCA winter press tour. The pair…

Jim Lanzone, who has led CBS Interactive since 2011, will step down at the end of 2019, with longtime lieutenant Mark DeBevoise succeeding him in the top job. Lanzone will become an executive-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. The management shuffle comes about a month before Viacom and CBS complete their long-awaited…

CBS may be hurting from the nearly two-week old blackout born of its carriage dispute with AT&T, but CBS All Access is reaping some of the benefits. "We have seen an uptick since AT&T blacked us out," admitted an almost sheepish CBS Interactive boss Marc DeBevoise today at TCA of the small screen battle and the…

After a period of years when Netflix, Hulu and Amazon reigned virtually unchallenged as subscription streaming's Big Three, the landscape is getting more crowded than the last act of Avengers: Endgame. The 2020s will dawn with major new pay-to-stream offerings from Apple, Disney and WarnerMedia all jockeying for the…

A third season of Star Trek Discovery hasn't officially been announced, but executive producer Alex Kurtzman has already started moving towards that final frontier as well as Patrick Stewart’s much anticipated return to the Gene Roddenberry franchise. "We have a lot of big ideas we've already started working on, so…

“My goal is that there should be a Star Trek something on all the time on All Access,” CBS TV Studios president David Stapf said Sunday during a Deadline interview about the CBS streaming service that included the platform’s president and COO Marc DeBevoise and EVP Original Content Julie McNamara. The chat was held…

CBS is one of the nation’s biggest sellers of ad inventory. But a lot of digital video viewers hate ads — which the company just acknowledged by introducing a commercial-free version of its CBS All Access subscription streaming service. Customers can pay $9.99 a month to watch the on-demand content without…