recent YORK -- CBS said Thursday it...

recent YORK -- CBS said Thursday it will become the first network to simulcast its evening of the present days broadcast online, starting on the night of Katie Couric's first attempt as anchor Sept. 5.

All of the broadcast networks have aggressively pushed onto the Web through the whole extent of the past two years to interest more clan in what they do, particularly at a time the audience for their evening newscasts is shrinking and aging.

ABC streams a "World News" unique to the Internet audience in the mid-afternoon. NBC's Brian Williams contributes to the two a video and written Web log during the day. if it were not that NBC doesn't make a replay of "Nightly News" available until 9:30 pm after it appears forward television throughout the country.

The barrier to TV networks doing Web simulcasting has been make anxious among affiliates that simulcasts would slice into their TV audiences -- making their advertising time les valuable.

on the other hand CBS News President Sean McManus said the network was able to reach a deal with its affiliates by the agency of arguing that the programs will reach a different audience online. Television ratings for the first scarcely any days of the NCAA basketball tournament went up this year equal though CBS showed the games forward the Web at the same time, he said. "It makes reason -- if you have access to a television, with what intent would you want to watch it forward computer?" he said.

race will have to specifically register online to descry the Web simulcast, however, in order to interrupt people in later time climates from watching the news before it airs in their area, CB said.

McManus envisions the online simulcast appealing to commonalty stuck late in the office or commuting with a laptop who might want to be filled in upon the day's news. "I think it could help us potentially shoot our audience," he said.

Advertising for the online simulcast will be sold separately, he said.

ABC's afternoon "World News" averages about 2 million downloads by week, the network said. The Webcast, anchored like the TV version by way of Charles Gibson, is tailored to the Internet audience, said Jon Banner, "World News" executive agriculturist For example, in addition to the day's top story, it exhibits a heavier concentration of technology and burst culture stories, he said.

"We take the approach -- and we believe it's the right approach - - that the Internet audience is different from the single watching the broadcast and is looking for different content" Banner said.

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