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In a first for U.S. broadcast news, "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric," which debuts Sept. 5, will be streamed online - while it's being broadcast - writes paidContent. Registration is required and newscasts are available when they air in the online user's time zone. Ad-supported, the online edition will also be available as video on demand in its entirety, or by individual news report, as it has been since Nov. 2005.

"It's another giant step towards providing CBS News content to people wherever they are - in their homes, in their offices, in their cars, on their computers or on their cell phones," CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus said in a statement.

"As we learned from our simulcast of March Madness on Demand, there is a huge appetite for real time content on the internet," said Kramer. "Viewers increasingly want access to programming when it's fresh, and the internet allows us to bring our content to them wherever they are and whenever that content is broadcast."

Nevertheless, placing "geolimits on viewing a network-owned show are almost anachronistic and replicate broadcast standards instead of taking full advantage of the internet," comments paidContent's Staci Kramer.