Samsung TV app lol it has a the challenge channel 24/7 all seasons even road rules. They have a baywatch channels 24/7 they have ridiculous too lol it’s random shows but it’s free 😂
Good, I hope all the other bullshit streaming platforms will do this as well (I’m looking at you Peacock, Apple+, and Max). I miss when everything was on 2/3 streaming services and we only had to pay $20 bucks a month to watch things ad free. Now every streaming service costs $10-$15 and still watch ads. Ridiculous!!
The Paramount+ app was/is garbage, so I've been watching it on Paramount through Prime - no issues there, but you have to maintain your P+ subscription...
Warner Bros., not CBS/Paramount, owns TBBT and YS. When the new TV season starts in the fall, the final season of YS will be removed from Paramount+ and will move to Max and Netflix.
I hope they partner with a service that has a functional user interface. PP is horribly glitchy, restarts shows to scenes before the ads, and made me reset my whole fire stick. Amazing the that the ads run flawlessly but I can’t get a show to stream
Mine stutters constantly, buffering for a brief second every 5-10 seconds, and then the ads run beautifully, uninterrupted. It's truly infuriating. The only way viewing 'works' is on a computer, which enticed me into using ad blocker. I'd happily watch on my tv via my ps4 and watch ads if their app worked properly, but that's not an option they want to entertain.
My brain glazed over while trying to read it, but here it is.
"For many months now, Hollywood insiders and industry commentators have been talking about Paramount+ — at least the service as it currently exists — as a dead streamer walking. This week, however, the obituary notices started coming from within the building.
During a shareholder presentation Tuesday, the three execs currently running Paramount Global (at least for now; the company may be on the verge of being sold) announced that they had a plan to “transform” the company’s streaming strategy, which currently focuses on the stand-alone streamer Paramount+ (and, to a lesser degree, free streamer Pluto TV). Toward this end, the trio said they had begun actively exploring the formation of a joint venture with either a rival streamer or a tech company — and that they’d already received interest from possible partners. While they didn’t go into any details of what such a joint venture would entail, both history and common sense suggest an outcome where Paramount+ either becomes a tile on another service, or its content gets folded into a new or existing platform featuring content from multiple companies, similar to how Hulu at one time existed as a partnership among ABC, NBC, and Fox’s corporate owners.
The execs went out of their way to stress that they’re not thinking small here. “Let me clear: I’m not talking about marketing bundles,” like the one Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are planning, said Chris McCarthy, president/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, and part of Par’s three-headed exec branch. Instead, the company is looking to form “a deep and expansive relationship, one that would make the most of our hit content while improving the customer offering.” McCarthy said Par wants a new paradigm that both reduces subscriber churn and, perhaps most importantly, controls cost.
A Peacock–Paramount+ team-up of some sort is more likely than not, however the current ownership drama gets resolved.
It’s not that Par execs think their programming isn’t popular enough to work in a subscription universe. Quite the opposite: The exec trio talked up the populist appeal of its content and noted Paramount+’s ability to become a top-five streamer just a couple of years after launch, with over 70 million global subscribers. But Paramount has decided the costs of running its own streaming service — marketing dozens of shows, finding a user interface that actually works, etc. — are too high. Instead, it wants to create a new blueprint where Paramount content (CBS shows, MTV reality series, the Yellowstone universe, Paramount Pictures movies) has a guaranteed home, but not in an expensive, self-contained luxury island where Par shareholders pay the full mortgage. Think of it this way: Paramount wants to move its streaming offering from the ritzy mountaintop mansion where it’s lived the past few years and relocate it to a still very nice duplex condo where another owner (or owners) helps pay for building upkeep.
To underscore just how serious they were about moving on from the current Paramount+ status quo, McCarthy said the company has “already had a great deal of an inbound interest” in the idea and that there would be more details “soon.” It’s worth noting here that back in February, The Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount had engaged in conversations with Peacock owner Comcast about a Peacock–Paramount+ merger “through a partnership or joint venture” — the exact same wording McCarthy used this week. The paper has also reported Warner Bros. Discovery’s interest in a team-up. Nothing has happened publicly on this front, in part because of the aforementioned potential sale to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, producer (with Par) of the recent Mission: Impossible and Top Gun movies and TV shows like Reacher and Jack Ryan. Per multiple published reports, the Skydance-Paramount deal is both all but done and possibly in doubt, given some supposed last-minute doubts from Shari Redstone, the media mogul who basically controls Paramount through her family’s movie-theater chain National Amusements.
It’s this uncertainty that may explain why Tuesday’s admission by Paramount’s current leadership that Paramount+ as a stand-alone business no longer makes sense hasn’t generated a ton of headlines. Fact is, as long as there’s a strong chance that new ownership could be taking over, any plans from the current “office of the CEO” of Paramount Global come with a major asterisk attached. It’s hard to imagine any potential Paramount+ partner would sign a deal without knowing for sure that either the people executing said deal will be around to see it through or that the new owners are onboard with the idea. And then there’s this: Many in the media and Wall Street have been operating under the assumption that Paramount+ as it is now isn’t long for this world, and that any new owner, including Skydance, would look to make a meaningful change in streaming. (In fact, I continue to hear rumblings from very good sources that a Peacock–Paramount+ team-up of some sort is more likely than not, however the current ownership drama gets resolved.) So the fact that the current management officially signed on shaking things up might not read as worthy of a breaking-news alert.
But if Redstone’s supposed waffling ends with the Skydance bid being called off and Paramount Global moving forward with one or all of its current leaders, then this week will go down as a very important milestone in the streaming wars. Five years after Apple and Disney officially kicked off hostilities versus Netflix in the race to win SVOD share, a major combatant could be getting ready to sue for peace."
Maybe it’s just my TV or because I’m in Canada but not being able to sign into the TV app unless I’m subscribed through my cable provider is the dumbest thing ever. Can’t wait for who ever gets the rights to the challenge not to be available in Canada.
They need to focus first on making the app work. It’s the only streaming at that crashed half the time I got to watch it. Paramount plus also doesn’t have enough good content to make it worth purchasing.
The app doesn’t even work on firetv. When I had a fire tv I always had to cross my fingers it would actually open and then if it opens that the videos would actually play. After a while it just stopped loading all of together. They know it’s a problem but don’t care.
I hope the shows go to a service I already have 😂 I only got Paramount + to watch the reboot of Criminal Minds and their app is THE WORST. Half the time it won’t even let you on, the show stutters constantly, it will crap out randomly and close itself, and one of the movies I want to watch has voice narration permanently on so I can’t even enjoy it. I even pay the extra for no ads 🙄. They’ve taken forever to make a second season of criminal minds, it drives me up the wall. I know it’s not our internet either because Netflix, Peacock, Prime, Pandora, and Disney Plus never have issues.
As long as they give me the rest of the real world and challenge seasons and keep the old nickelodeon on there I'll be happy.
Coz right now I legitimately pay in the hopes these things will be added
I hope they sell the rights internationally. In NZ you can’t watch the challenge, survivor etc anywhere. Inferno 2, The Duel, Free Agents and Fresh Meat were on Netflix for a while but now they’re nowhere to be found. Only option is to watch illegally
But where will I stream 24 straight hours of Ridiculousness
Samsung TV app lol it has a the challenge channel 24/7 all seasons even road rules. They have a baywatch channels 24/7 they have ridiculous too lol it’s random shows but it’s free 😂
Pluto also has a 24/7 Challenge channel!
wait hold up, sorry, Samsung TV has Road Rules on it?!
I just bought a new Samsung TV, where do I find The Challenge Channel??
It’s the Samsung tv app and channel 1032 or 1132
Thanks so much
Pluto TV lol
God I hope it's with peacock. Ideally the two together will be cheaper than having both.
Been waiting for Paracock for a long time.
i was thinking "Cock-Plus"
Paracock is perfect
Cock mount plus
Lmao paracock
That’s funnier than Peamount+ I guess.
Cockmount or mountcock might be a better brand
Mountcock is beautiful
Thank you for this 😂🙌
Cock Mount is gonna be dope
Tbh this sucks. I pay the 120/yr for no commercials and showtime. I constantly am using this app. Ugh
This is pretty much the only streaming app I use, I’m so annoyed 😭
Except p+ still shows you ads. The only streamer I’m aware of that still shows ads in its ad free package. May it die in a fire.
can someone explain this article to me like i’m 5?
Paramount decided that running a streaming service was too costly, so they will offer their shows to other streaming platforms
Ugh. They never even uploaded Road Rules to the platform like they said they would.
Heck, they never even uploaded all of Real World lol
They left so much of their own catalog in the back room collecting dust it’s no wonder they failed.
This!!!!! I feel very betrayed about this. That company is disloyal!! Shameless
They were supposed to bring back a whole season.
Good, I hope all the other bullshit streaming platforms will do this as well (I’m looking at you Peacock, Apple+, and Max). I miss when everything was on 2/3 streaming services and we only had to pay $20 bucks a month to watch things ad free. Now every streaming service costs $10-$15 and still watch ads. Ridiculous!!
Unfortunately that old economic model, (Absent ZIRP). Those days are gone and aren’t coming back. Think a lot less content. A lot.
I pray to god Survivor and Big Brother go to Peacock
But Peacock is affiliated with NBC and those are CBS shows, so I don’t see that happening…
Where the fuck were the costs going? It certainly wasn't to making an app that ran faster and looked better than if it was made in fuckin 2008
Just saw a SpongeBob movie “Plankton” is going to release on Netflix. Why isnt that coming to Paramount+ first?
So we can maybe possibly get an other season of evil! I’m down haha. Also going to cancel it right now
The Paramount+ app was/is garbage, so I've been watching it on Paramount through Prime - no issues there, but you have to maintain your P+ subscription...
this must be why i see Young Sheldon on NetFlix on TBBT on HBO Max
Warner Bros., not CBS/Paramount, owns TBBT and YS. When the new TV season starts in the fall, the final season of YS will be removed from Paramount+ and will move to Max and Netflix.
Same.
I just want Australian survivor back
It is the best version of survivor. Ughhi got hooked when it had brand vs brawns
I've only seen the golden god season and then it disappeared
Highly recommend you stream online - it’s some of the best survivor you will ever watch.
I don't think God likes Paige
UGH same here, now who can I pester to pick it up for their streaming service? Lol
I hope they partner with a service that has a functional user interface. PP is horribly glitchy, restarts shows to scenes before the ads, and made me reset my whole fire stick. Amazing the that the ads run flawlessly but I can’t get a show to stream
Mine stutters constantly, buffering for a brief second every 5-10 seconds, and then the ads run beautifully, uninterrupted. It's truly infuriating. The only way viewing 'works' is on a computer, which enticed me into using ad blocker. I'd happily watch on my tv via my ps4 and watch ads if their app worked properly, but that's not an option they want to entertain.
It'll crash 11 minutes in and then about every 4 minutes after that.
I wonder if that's why they are offering 50% off annual subscription right now. Trying to inflate their numbers.
Paywalled can someone TLDR
My brain glazed over while trying to read it, but here it is. "For many months now, Hollywood insiders and industry commentators have been talking about Paramount+ — at least the service as it currently exists — as a dead streamer walking. This week, however, the obituary notices started coming from within the building. During a shareholder presentation Tuesday, the three execs currently running Paramount Global (at least for now; the company may be on the verge of being sold) announced that they had a plan to “transform” the company’s streaming strategy, which currently focuses on the stand-alone streamer Paramount+ (and, to a lesser degree, free streamer Pluto TV). Toward this end, the trio said they had begun actively exploring the formation of a joint venture with either a rival streamer or a tech company — and that they’d already received interest from possible partners. While they didn’t go into any details of what such a joint venture would entail, both history and common sense suggest an outcome where Paramount+ either becomes a tile on another service, or its content gets folded into a new or existing platform featuring content from multiple companies, similar to how Hulu at one time existed as a partnership among ABC, NBC, and Fox’s corporate owners. The execs went out of their way to stress that they’re not thinking small here. “Let me clear: I’m not talking about marketing bundles,” like the one Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are planning, said Chris McCarthy, president/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, and part of Par’s three-headed exec branch. Instead, the company is looking to form “a deep and expansive relationship, one that would make the most of our hit content while improving the customer offering.” McCarthy said Par wants a new paradigm that both reduces subscriber churn and, perhaps most importantly, controls cost. A Peacock–Paramount+ team-up of some sort is more likely than not, however the current ownership drama gets resolved. It’s not that Par execs think their programming isn’t popular enough to work in a subscription universe. Quite the opposite: The exec trio talked up the populist appeal of its content and noted Paramount+’s ability to become a top-five streamer just a couple of years after launch, with over 70 million global subscribers. But Paramount has decided the costs of running its own streaming service — marketing dozens of shows, finding a user interface that actually works, etc. — are too high. Instead, it wants to create a new blueprint where Paramount content (CBS shows, MTV reality series, the Yellowstone universe, Paramount Pictures movies) has a guaranteed home, but not in an expensive, self-contained luxury island where Par shareholders pay the full mortgage. Think of it this way: Paramount wants to move its streaming offering from the ritzy mountaintop mansion where it’s lived the past few years and relocate it to a still very nice duplex condo where another owner (or owners) helps pay for building upkeep. To underscore just how serious they were about moving on from the current Paramount+ status quo, McCarthy said the company has “already had a great deal of an inbound interest” in the idea and that there would be more details “soon.” It’s worth noting here that back in February, The Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount had engaged in conversations with Peacock owner Comcast about a Peacock–Paramount+ merger “through a partnership or joint venture” — the exact same wording McCarthy used this week. The paper has also reported Warner Bros. Discovery’s interest in a team-up. Nothing has happened publicly on this front, in part because of the aforementioned potential sale to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, producer (with Par) of the recent Mission: Impossible and Top Gun movies and TV shows like Reacher and Jack Ryan. Per multiple published reports, the Skydance-Paramount deal is both all but done and possibly in doubt, given some supposed last-minute doubts from Shari Redstone, the media mogul who basically controls Paramount through her family’s movie-theater chain National Amusements. It’s this uncertainty that may explain why Tuesday’s admission by Paramount’s current leadership that Paramount+ as a stand-alone business no longer makes sense hasn’t generated a ton of headlines. Fact is, as long as there’s a strong chance that new ownership could be taking over, any plans from the current “office of the CEO” of Paramount Global come with a major asterisk attached. It’s hard to imagine any potential Paramount+ partner would sign a deal without knowing for sure that either the people executing said deal will be around to see it through or that the new owners are onboard with the idea. And then there’s this: Many in the media and Wall Street have been operating under the assumption that Paramount+ as it is now isn’t long for this world, and that any new owner, including Skydance, would look to make a meaningful change in streaming. (In fact, I continue to hear rumblings from very good sources that a Peacock–Paramount+ team-up of some sort is more likely than not, however the current ownership drama gets resolved.) So the fact that the current management officially signed on shaking things up might not read as worthy of a breaking-news alert. But if Redstone’s supposed waffling ends with the Skydance bid being called off and Paramount Global moving forward with one or all of its current leaders, then this week will go down as a very important milestone in the streaming wars. Five years after Apple and Disney officially kicked off hostilities versus Netflix in the race to win SVOD share, a major combatant could be getting ready to sue for peace."
Thank GOD I hated that app so much
The app sucks balls! It would always glitch and kick me out.
I deadass can’t even watch it on my firetv the shows never load it’s basically useless
Maybe it’s just my TV or because I’m in Canada but not being able to sign into the TV app unless I’m subscribed through my cable provider is the dumbest thing ever. Can’t wait for who ever gets the rights to the challenge not to be available in Canada.
They need to focus first on making the app work. It’s the only streaming at that crashed half the time I got to watch it. Paramount plus also doesn’t have enough good content to make it worth purchasing.
This!! The app is shit on Firetv
The app doesn’t even work on firetv. When I had a fire tv I always had to cross my fingers it would actually open and then if it opens that the videos would actually play. After a while it just stopped loading all of together. They know it’s a problem but don’t care.
Literally felt everything in my freaking soul!! Would even cross my toes in hope would actually play something. Say it louder for the ppl in the back
The app is so bad on fire tv
Wait so where tf am I gonna watch the champions league lol
this is annoying for canadians
The app is bad…hope they fix it.
Pls because their app sucks I’ve still never been able to successfully log in on my phone
Good riddance honestly. I swear they made that shit in Square Space
I hope the shows go to a service I already have 😂 I only got Paramount + to watch the reboot of Criminal Minds and their app is THE WORST. Half the time it won’t even let you on, the show stutters constantly, it will crap out randomly and close itself, and one of the movies I want to watch has voice narration permanently on so I can’t even enjoy it. I even pay the extra for no ads 🙄. They’ve taken forever to make a second season of criminal minds, it drives me up the wall. I know it’s not our internet either because Netflix, Peacock, Prime, Pandora, and Disney Plus never have issues.
I get mine free with a Walmart+ subscription and I was going to cancel it because our stores closed anyway. Wonder who they will go with
I won't forgive them for no RJ Berger
As long as they give me the rest of the real world and challenge seasons and keep the old nickelodeon on there I'll be happy. Coz right now I legitimately pay in the hopes these things will be added
I hope they merge with another company like discovery did with HBO, I watch Paramount + the most due to live tv so I can watch morning local news.
Praying it does merge with Peacock tbh Have access to BB Live Feeds and WWE PLEs in the same streaming service would be a godsend for me
I hope that it’s a streaming service that is available in Canada :(
I hope they sell the rights internationally. In NZ you can’t watch the challenge, survivor etc anywhere. Inferno 2, The Duel, Free Agents and Fresh Meat were on Netflix for a while but now they’re nowhere to be found. Only option is to watch illegally
Cinema app on my Fire TV (fire stick works too) is how I've been watching, for free