ViacomCBS will enter the streaming wars with Paramount Plus on March 4
Steven Zeitchik, The Washington Post
Feb. 24, 2021
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And then there was "Frasier."
ViacomCBS on Wednesday announced its beefed-up streaming service Paramount Plus, highlighting a dizzying mix of existing content, new shows and revivals of long-owned properties like the Seattle-set sitcom, in the latest bid by a media company to win streaming dollars.
"This is a big day, a new day - a new beginning," said ViacomCBS chairman Shari Redstone, speaking from a virtual presentation on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles.
The company is betting that renaming and supercharging CBS All Access - its existing service -with a vast supply of new content will help it compete with Disney's Hulu, Comcast's Peacock, Warner Media's HBO Max and, to a lesser extent, Netflix and Disney Plus.