CBS just started streaming three of its soaps in same-day web offerings. “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns” and “The Young and the Restless” can now be viewed at CBS’ innertube site after 6 p.m. ET the day of airing. (Click the “All Shows” option, then “Daytime.”) The network says the episodes will stay online free for a week.
Handy to have ’em available anytime -- there’s even the “boss button” used on sports streams to call up cover when the supervisor strolls by -- but it’s hardly the same as watching them on TV. Even on broadband connections, you can see jumpy video, buffering time and other online artifacts. You still get commercials, too. (That’s why they’re free.) But there’s a full-screen option, and you can pause, rewind and fast-forward.
Already posted here: Monday-Wednesday episodes.
[Right: "GL" star Rob Bogue in CBS photo.]