I don’t know if it was a paid promotion, but Howard Stern ranted about this very thing last week before his show went on year-end hiatus. Playing the average guy, he needed a couple of people to explain the difference between Paramount+ and Paramount Network.
For the benefit of the rest of us, Paramount Network is the Bar Rescue channel. I still haven’t figured out why there’s a separate CBS app when Colbert mentions Paramount+ constantly. Is there overlap between the CBS app and Paramount+ or is the CBS app just for streaming prime time on delay? -Stan On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 7:48:45 PM UTC-5 PGage wrote: > We just spent an hour in my house trying to get my wife access to Season 5 > of Yellowstone. She had watched earlier seasons on some combination of > Peacock and Paramount Plus, but could find Season 5 on neither. She was > particularly upset because two of her four sisters, with whom she discusses > the show, and talks to every day, have told her they already saw multiple > episodes, and my wife was feeling left out. > > This is where I get activated. I tried to get into this show, and could > not get past the first few episodes, and I know I watched them on Peacock. > I was certain I had read, here and or elsewhere, that more recent seasons > were streaming on P+ As a function of some complicated sequence. But I > confirmed it was not on P+. > > A little Googling revealed that Yellowstone currently can not be streamed, > but was available on Paramount Network, which, it turns out, is not really > an earlier version of Paramount Plus, but a later iteration of Spike TV > (I’m sure this has been discussed here, but I would have only skimmed it). > So at first it seemed that if we had not recorded Yellowstone episodes as > they aired, there was no way to watch (until, I suppose, they eventually > show up on Peacock, then P+?). > > That led to a dark few minutes for my wife (and for me, for failing to > solve this problem). But then I downloaded the Paramount App to my IPad, > and found that if I signed on through my provider (YouTubeTV) I was able to > access previously aired S5 episodes. This led to premature celebrations > though, as when my wife tried to access the app on her phone, we kept > getting a message that our provider had not authorized access to the > episodes. Again in the chilly doghouse, I was motivated to keep at it, and > eventually found a way to sign on through the Google App. > > My wife is now watching the first five (I think) episodes of S5, so she > will be able to talk to her sisters without shame tomorrow. > > But this whole thing has left me wondering why a third tier network would > not be doing a better job of using one of the most popular shows on > television to grow itself by making it easy for people to find it and join. > Seems like it would be easy to allow us to click on something in P+ to go > to Paramount. Or, why is there even such a thing as Paramount, at least as > a thing that lives outside the Paramount Plus App as one of their many > channels? > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/505b26ae-e098-4415-ae64-dfce6ba1e780n%40googlegroups.com.
