PHILADELPHIA—With CBSN Philly, Philadelphia becomes the sixth market in the U.S. to have its own local direct-to-consumer streaming news service from CBS Television and CBS Interactive. CBSN Philly officially launched on Jan. 30.

The CBSN streaming service offers viewers anchored programming, coverage of live breaking news events in the region from local station KYW-TV and a library of local news content available for on-demand viewing. CBSN Philly is available through CBSN, on CBSNews.com and on the CBS News apps for mobile and connected TV devices, as well as on CBSPhilly.com and the CBS Local mobile app.

CBS began these local news streaming services with CBSN New York in December 2018. Since then, CBSN Los Angeles, CBSN Boston, CBSN San Francisco Bay Area and CBSN Minnesota all launched. CBSN Pittsburgh is the next local streaming service scheduled to launch, doing so in February. Other markets expected to receive its own CBSN stream are Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Miami, Sacramento and Baltimore.

“It is very exciting to reach the midpoint of the rollout for our CBSN Local services with today’s launch of CBSN Philly,” said Peter Dunn, president of CBS Television Studios. “We have learned so much during our five previous launches and now have the structure in place to accelerate our rollout plan and go live in all of our markets within the next few months.”

NEW YORK—A new portfolio of destinations for streaming local news –both anchor-presented stories and live breaking news—will soon be available on connected TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones.

CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive Aug 1 went public with plans for the new online, direct-to-consumer streaming news service. CBSN Local services will be available via the 24/7 CBSN streaming news service of CBS News and CBS Interactive, CBS said.

“CBSN Local is the exciting next chapter in how our stations will serve audiences seeking local news on all of the most popular content consumption platforms,” said Peter Dunn, President, CBS Television Stations.

First up for CBSN Local will be New York City. WCBS, the broadcaster’s flagship station, and sister WLNY, will launch in Q4 2018. Next will be KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles with other major market CBS O&Os to follow.

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“The addition of CBSN Local services delivering high-quality coverage from our stations around the country will bring a new level of depth to CBSN’s 24/7 original reporting,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO, CBS Interactive and Chief Digital Officer, CBS Corp.

Each CBSN Local service will offer live streams of CBS Television Stations’ regularly scheduled early morning, daytime and evening newscasts. Other daily newscasts will be produced exclusively for CBSN Local, CBS said.

Breaking live news coverage and a library of on-demand content will also be available from each CBSN Local service.

The ad-supported CBSN Local services will be led by anchors and reporters at local CBS Television Stations.

The new local streaming services will complement the network’s other streaming services, including CBSN and CBS Sports HQ. Ultimately, they will be included as live channels in CBS All Access in their local markets.

NEW YORK—The teamwork of CBS Interactive Advanced Media and Sidearm Sports will bring more than 14,000 live college and high school sporting events to fans through streaming. In a press release, the two groups announced they will partner to jointly produce and operate more than 1,100 college and high school athletic websites to stream sporting events.

As part of the partnership, the clients, which include a reported 85 percent of Power Five schools, will have access to Sidearm’s content management and delivery systems, mobile platform and creative design solutions, as well as CBS Interactive’s video streaming and video distribution capabilities. Clients will also have expanded live video reach that includes CBS Sports Digital’s subscription streaming service, SportsLive, which will provide fans with access to live events and on-demand videos across schools and sports.

Sidearm will be in charge of managing the website and mobile platforms while providing the hosting and infrastructure for all the schools. CBS Interactive will manage video infrastructure and distribution as well as end-to-end advertising operations for all the schools.

The partnership is expected to officially kick off in the coming months.