2. Improve the CBS Sports app and the streaming experience
CBS has put SEC football, NFL playoffs and college basketball plus the NCAA Tournament online as well as selected PGA events online. However, you may not know this as the CBS Sports mobile and tablet app is very clunky and difficult to navigate.
CBS does have online and tablet rights to the NFL, but it has elected not to stream its Sunday afternoon schedule and the Thursday Night Football is streamed on the NFL Mobile app.
Should CBS get permission to put NFL games on its All Access app, that would be another feather in its cap, but that might be for the next TV contract. Even so, CBS Sports’ online experience has to improve and another way to do that is to stream CBSSN.
CBS Sports’ Apple and Roku apps offer video clips and not much else. In this day and age, that’s unacceptable. People are expecting live content and CBS Sports has fallen behind not just the other networks, but even CBS Entertainment, which allows for live streaming on All Access albeit for a price.
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Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
Fang celebrates the four Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.