ViacomCBS Launching Paramount+ Streaming Service in March

The video-streaming wars are about to intensify. On Tuesday, ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC) announced the initial launch dates of its Paramount+ streaming service. This will be March 4 in the U.S. and Latin America, and March 25 for the Nordic countries.

ViacomCBS added that the service would go live in Australia in the middle of this year but did not get more specific. In Canada, the legacy CBS All Access service will be renamed Paramount+, with an "expanded offering" to come later in 2021. The company did not set any launch dates for other countries and geographies.

After promising that it would develop and launch a "super service" to stream its considerable film and TV properties, Viacom CBS unveiled Paramount+ last September. The CBS All Access library of roughly 20,000 TV episodes and movies would be bulked up by around 10,000 pieces of content added for Paramount+.

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