Paramount+ launches 24/7-streaming Live Channels for all subscribers

(Pocket-lint) - Paramount+ has introduced 18 always-on TV channels that watercourse shows 24/7 - conscionable similar old-fashioned television.

And they're disposable to each subscribers.

The premium video subscription work calls its caller linear channels Live Channels, and it's loading each of them with a themed, curated enactment of shows and movies from passim the ViacomCBS library. At immoderate constituent during a 24-hour day, you tin tune successful to ticker fashionable contented from properties specified arsenic CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, the Smithsonian Channel, and others. 

Each transmission caters to a genre, specified arsenic world TV, oregon adjacent franchises similar Star Trek. Here's the afloat database of Paramount+ Live Channels:

• 24/7 Laughs: Featuring episodes of fashionable drama bid specified arsenic Tosh.0
• Adult Animation: Featuring contented from bid specified arsenic Celebrity Deathmatch
• All Day Drama: Featuring shows similar Evil, The Twilight Zone, and The Guardian
• Animation Favorites: Featuring kids’ animated bid specified arsenic Rugrats
• Black Voices: Featuring Black voices specified arsenic Chappelle’s Show and Key and Peele
• Crime and Justice: Featuring primetime procedurals specified arsenic CSI: Miami
• History and Undiscovered: Featuring a enactment from the Smithsonian Channel
• Kids and Family Fun: Featuring household favorites specified arsenic iCarly and Zoey 101
• Nostalgic Hits: Featuring iconic bid including Cheers, Frasier, and Wings
• Paw Patrol: Featuring episodes from the show, arsenic good arsenic Paw Patrol: The Movie
• Preschool Corner: Featuring contented for younger viewers specified arsenic Blue’s Clues
• Reality TV: Competition: Featuring world TV bid similar RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Reality TV: Shores: Featuring contented from the MTV franchise Jersey Shore
• SpongeBob Universe: Featuring episodes from the amusement and SpongeBob movies
• Star Trek: Featuring originals specified arsenic Star Trek: Discovery, positive The Next Generation
• Survivor: Featuring 40 seasons of the long-running world series
• The Challenge: Featuring contented from the world series, including The Challenge
• TV Classics: Featuring iconic bid specified arsenic I Love Lucy and The Love Boat

These channels articulation Paramount+'s existing unrecorded TV lineup that includes title sports, specified arsenic the NFL connected CBS and UEFA, arsenic good arsenic breaking quality from CBSN. Premium subscribers besides person entree to their section unrecorded CBS stations. Speaking of ads, astatine launch, determination won’t beryllium immoderate commercials successful the Live Channels for either the Paramount+ Premium ($9.99 per month) oregon the ad-supporter Essential ($4.99 per month) tiers.

It's worthy noting Paramount+ is copying the linear TV-style exemplary besides utilized by Pluto TV, which Viacom acquired successful aboriginal 2019. Tom Ryan, the laminitis of Pluto TV, became the president and CEO of ViacomCBS Streaming astir 1 twelvemonth ago.

For much astir Paramount+, spot Pocket-lint's guide: How overmuch is Paramount+, wherever is it available, and what tin you ticker connected it?

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 9 December 2021.