On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 9:10 PM Stan S <sta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
Not sure why there is a CBS app anymore… Paramount+ subscribers get access to CBS live and the no-budget CBS News live-stream. > -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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/505b26ae-e098-4415-ae64-dfce6ba1e780n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/505b26ae-e098-4415-ae64-dfce6ba1e780n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BOZoW322c_cVH7Zo5%2B%2Bu7tXbMqamvP1%2B%2BfU6xAO88Ucg%40mail.gmail.com.
