Meh, CBS is dreaming, I wouldn't expect it to stay like that.  Anyone that thinks they can grab subscribers this easily is deluding themselves, they'll lose their shirts on it.

Well, plenty of people are cutting the cable and content providers are competing on the market place. 

Since it's estimated (one piece I read quoting Netflix, I believe) 37% of young viewers have done so, there's a reason the content providers are doing so...especially with the ST movies being produced...

Whether it'll pan out? Couldn't begin to guess, but it would certainly belie the claim that cutting the cable "saves" money...

CBS is broadcast, they're deluding themselves if they think they can get a decent market share off 5 bucks for just their content.  97% of the country is in broadcast range of a great signal.

psychoak...they won't be putting it on their regular t.v. channel. This is:

So when all the other stations follow suit we'll have umpteen mini cables, each with its own price tag.

I'm aware Doc, would you pay 6 bucks a month to watch a TV show that should have been on broadcast?  Their value is crap compared to their competitors, it's not even ad free.  They probably have dick for subscribers, and are attempting to pimp the service with some exclusives.  It's going to fail horribly, there's no way they're going to get the millions of subscribers they'd need to make this farce work.  A single national commercial spot on a moderately successful show is a couple hundred grand.

20 plus episodes a year, with several minutes of national commercials each, how many $6 subscriptions is that going to need to be offset?  The average cost of a TV show is a few million an episode, a good Trek show isn't going to be anywhere near that cheap if it's worth watching to start with.  The math just doesn't work out for this plan with anything less than garnering several million subscribers just for this show.  Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I see that happening some time after pigs fly through hell on a really cold day.

It will be another journey of exploration.  My fav (and I have seen all the various imaginations of the Star Trek Universe) is actually the lower budget "Enterprise" -sometimes refereed to as 'Archer.'  I wish the network would release the new series to netflix, as that the only TV I watch - except for NBC on the web.  ABC and CBS both block web access unless you can document being a subscriber to one of those cable sharks.  I'm not.  In any case, may the new show live long an prosper.

psychoak...I think the number of subscribers will depend on age and mobility...unless it'll work via dongle/smart tv as well. Also, they'll sell "packages" too...so the price won't be (necessarily) $6.episode. Should be interesting.

R' Elana, if you take a look at the article link in #14, it might answer your question quite well...at least according to the writer who really hasn't seen anything yet as it just on paper.

I doubt it'll be like TOS...simply because this isn't the '60s with the social issues we had then...but, I could be wrong.

Thanks Doc for highlighting the link.     Based on what seems to be planned for NBC's streaming service (commercials remain) - and how few shows I watch on NBC (currently zero) - I won't be subscribing. Back to trek - I agree that it is unlikely that the social issues addressed in the earlier incarnations of the trek franchise will be highlighted.  Many of the social concerns of the 60's were explored and the show could be quite preachy about it.  Remember when Kirk kissed Uhura?  Interracial kissing - was a first on network TV is U$A.  ... Perhaps the new show will take us somewhere none of us have been before?  Probably not?

Hum, what a pisser.

Just tired that corporate America (CBS) has to make it another pay service not on regular free tv.

  Its going to get to a point where every channel you want will have to be paid for....

At least with cable you get a bunch of channels. Combine all the channels that are out there......I think cable would be cheaper.