CBS News Goes À La Carte

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

In yet another digital repurposing of TV, CBS News says it will start distributing DVD's of its news, current and archival material, over Amazon.com or CBSNews.com, using Amazon's CustomFlix digital customizable DVD service.

Viewers will be able to create their own DVD's from a menu of thousands of hours of footage. Say, picking several 60 minutes segments, a CBS Evening News or Sunday Morning report, plus archival footage of the Moon landing, the Kennedy Assassination, or 9/11 coverage.

The DVD's are then professionally packaged, wrapped and shipped.

Starting Thursday, July 13, the DVD's, up to 90 minutes of footage, are available for a la carte assembly at either www.amazon.com/60minutes or www.CustomFlix.com/60minutes. 

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.