Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.

The floodgates have officially opened. 
  
 Just a day after HBO unveiled plans for a Netflix-style Internet-only subscription service, CBS announced Thursday that it too is launching an on-demand streaming offshoot called CBS All Access. 
  
 For $5.99 per month, subscribers will have access to thousands of CBS episodes from the current season (with fresh episodes available the day after broadcast) as well as previous seasons. 
  
 Thousands of epsidoes from classic shows (including Star Trek, Twin Peaks and Cheers) also are ripe for bingeing. 
  
 CBS All Access is available now at CBS.com and on mobile devices through the CBS App for iOS and Android. 
  
 “CBS All Access is another key step in the Company’s long-standing strategy of monetizing our local and national content in the ways that viewers want it,” said Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corporation, in a statement. “This new subscription service will deliver the most of CBS to our biggest fans while being additive to the overall ecosystem. Across the board, we continue to capitalize on technological advances that help consumers engage with our world-class programming, and we look forward to serving our viewers in this new and exciting way.” ||||| A new era of à la carte television arrived in earnest this week — seemingly all at once and more quickly than many industry executives and television fans had expected. And with it, the virtual monopoly that cable, satellite and telecommunications companies have had over TV programming is dissipating. 
  
 Just one day after HBO said it would start an Internet-only offering, CBS announced on Thursday its own subscription streaming service that lets people watch its live programming and thousands of current and past shows on demand. 
  
 The moves signal a watershed moment for web-delivered television, where viewers have more options to pay only for the networks or programs they want to watch — and to decide how, when and where to watch them. Rapidly fading are the days in which people pay an average of $90 a month for a bundle of networks from a traditional provider. 
  
 Image Leslie Moonves of CBS said the streaming service was “an important part of our future.” Credit Gus Ruelas/Reuters 
  
 “Everybody is talking about it,” Leslie Moonves, chief executive of the CBS Corporation, said in an interview. “It is an important part of our future. Our job is to do the best content we can and let people enjoy it in whatever way they want. The world is heading in that direction.” ||||| Hot on the heels of HBO announcing a standalone streaming option, CBS just debuted its own subscription streaming service... and it is possibly the worst streaming TV deal out there. 
  
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 CBS is offering access to the current seasons of 15 primetime shows, full past seasons of 8 popular shows, some seasons of "CBS Classics" like CSI: Miami, access to live events, and the ability to stream Big Brother 24/7. 
  
 This is such a bad deal in so many ways. Unlike HBO, you don't need a subscription to CBS, so you'd be paying for content you could get for free anyways. Football is not included in the live events. You can watch some of these programs on Amazon Prime and Netflix, and even if you can't, it some cases it still makes more sense to access them another way. Say you love The Good Wife but aren't that into other CBS programming (like me). It's cheaper to just buy a season pass on iTunes for $45 than it is to shuck out $72 a year for this streaming service and try really hard to care about NCIS. 
  
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 And while the CBS Classics options don't have ads, the current shows do, meaning you'll have to sit through the same stuff you'd see on TV. 
  
 Sorry, DiNozzo, but there are very few people who this deal will appeal to, and most of them are my grandma. 
  
 The most interesting thing about this service isn't what it is offering, but what it could mean for Showtime, which is owned by CBS. This may be a test balloon to see how the company handles streaming. And Showtime would actually make sense to offer as a standalone streaming service, since it requires a subscription that costs an additional fee on your cable bill. We have to pay for shows like Homeland no matter what device we watch Carrie Matheson ugly-cry on, so paying for a streaming option would be a logical alternative to paying for the channel through cable. |||||

Yesterday, HBO announced it's launching a stand-alone Web streaming service. Today it's CBS making that call with CBS All Access, an on-demand service that offers streaming of current and past seasons of popular CBS shows, as well as classic shows, for $5.99 a month, TVLine.com reports. According to a CBS press release, the service offers new episodes of 15 current prime-time shows the day after they air; live-streaming of local CBS stations in 14 markets (with more to be added); full past seasons of favorites like Survivor and The Good Wife; "CBS Classics" like Twin Peaks and Cheers; and the ability to live-stream Big Brother around the clock. The service is meant to attract the demographic that uses Netflix, the New York Times notes—those the Times calls "cord nevers" (people who’ve never paid for TV packages) and "cord cutters" (those who've nixed their cable or satellite subs). The idea isn't making everyone reach for the remote. First, you won't find NFL games on the service, though CBS execs are pushing other sports that are available for live-streaming and reportedly talking to the NFL about future possibilities. Kate Knibbs comes down harshly on the plan, writing at Gizmodo that this "is possibly the worst streaming TV deal out there," noting the fact that viewers have to sit through ads for current shows, just like on regular TV (the classic shows are ad-free), and that—unlike HBO—you can watch CBS for free already. Times tech writer Farhad Manjoo agrees, tweeting, "Offering to let you pay $5.99 a month for shows you can get for free is just why TV has done so well in the digital age." If you want it anyway, the service is available at CBS.com or through mobile devices via the CBS app.