Relax, Android and Windows 8 users: CBS says you’ll get a similar smartphone and tablet app later this year. But Apple customers will be first to take advantage of the program which handles streamed full episodes of certain CBS shows, and so-called “second screen” features for people who are watching conventional live TV. The network says that its daytime and late night shows will be available within 24 hours after they air, and most primetime shows will be up after eight days. “We have been methodically and strategically finding new ways to satiate the appetite for our content on new platforms, while tapping into the tremendous revenue provided by doing so,” CBS chief Les Moonves says. “Our announcement today achieves both of these objectives, while protecting our very healthy current ecosystem.” By this fall’s TV season the new app will integrate features from the current CBS Connect App. It will offer integrated social feeds, and live events for fans who want to connect with performers. The second-screen material will be available for shows including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-O, and NCIS: Los Angeles. CBS says that Buick is the official launch partner for the app; users will have “reduced commercial interruption for the first several weeks after launch.”


I downloaded, tried, and deleted that App all in a matter of 3 minutes. It’s HORRIBLE!
I don’t understand how the most profitable and successful network on TV manages to have the WORST video playback softwares on the Internet! It’s ridiculous.
do CBS viewers even know how to operate an iPad? I figured that was why they were the only major network to not have any streaming app whatsoever for any platform.
Do they even own iPads, that’s the question. The type of person who goes for tech gadgets is also the first to adopt new technlogical forms of consuming media. I’m typing this on an iPad and I cut the cord months ago. I don’t watch cable or broadcast anymore. I made the decision to buy and iPad and switch to Netflix independently but of course both choices come from the same lifestyle and mindset.
CBS getting an app is like outfitting a horse and buggy with an internal combustion engine.
there episodes used to be on the tv.com app. it worked great on my android tablet, then all of a sudden all the full episodes disappeared off the app.
I have specifically not watched CBS shows (that I would like to) because they insist on using their own awful, buggy video player on their website instead of Hulu’s. Please just suck it up and leave the technology to those who know how to implement it!
This is news? Disney/ABC had that years and years ago. CBS truly is behind the learning curve when it comes to technology.