In what feels like a response to many fans’ demands, CBS All Access today launched a second-price-point “ad-free” option to their streaming service, an enhanced subscription which comes at a cost of $9.99/month.

Up until now, the standard All Access subscription, priced at $5.99 monthly, included commercials in its feed, and this January’s STAR TREK: DISCOVERY is expected to contain somewhere around twelve minutes of ads per hour. This new option will eliminate commercials from the All Access feed – well, in most cases.

Here’s the CBS press release:

“CBS ALL ACCESS” ROLLS OUT COMMERCIAL-FREE OPTION FOR SUBSCRIBERS
CBS All Access Subscribers Can Now Watch the Service’s On-Demand Content

Commercial-Free for $9.99/Month or with Reduced Commercials for $5.99/Month

August 31, 2016 – CBS Corporation today announced the launch of a commercial-free plan for the CBS All Access subscription service. In addition to the existing subscription offering of $5.99/month, subscribers now have the option to watch CBS All Access’s on-demand content commercial-free for $9.99/month.

“The foundation of CBS All Access is not only about giving CBS fans access to more of the content they want, but also giving them more choice in how they watch their favorite CBS programming,” said Marc DeBevoise, President and Chief Operating Officer of CBS Interactive. “The addition of a commercial-free plan gives our subscribers even more ways to customize their CBS viewing experience – from which devices to whether they watch in or out of the home, and now with commercials or without.”

With the commercial-free plan, subscribers will be able to watch CBS All Access’s on-demand library of more than 7,500 episodes, including full current seasons of primetime hits like BIG BROTHER, BLUE BLOODS, MADAM SECRETARY and THE ODD COUPLE among many others, as well as late night, daytime and news programming, all without commercials.

CBS All Access’s upcoming original series, including the next chapter of the legendary “Star Trek” TV franchise, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, a spinoff of “The Good Wife” and a new digital edition of “Big Brother” will also be available commercial-free under the $9.99/month plan.

Subscribers to the $5.99/month plan will continue to experience reduced commercials when watching on-demand content and be able to watch CBS Classics without commercials. Current subscribers will have the option to move to the commercial-free plan by logging on to their account through CBS.com.

For the commercial-free plan, CBS All Access’s live-streaming offering of local CBS Television stations, which is available throughout the U.S. in more than 150 markets, will continue to feature the same commercials as the over-the-air broadcast, and select on-demand shows will include promotional interruptions.

While it looks like DISCOVERY will come with zero commercials under the new plan, those cities where CBS programming is available to stream live online will continue to feature advertisements, as the local CBS affiliate feeds are the source of that content.

In other All Access news, the network also announced the availability to stream on Xbox One consoles last week; Playstation access is expected later this fall.

To you CBS All Access holdouts, does this new addition to their subscription plan make you any more inclined to sign up for the service ahead of the January launch of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – or are you still dead-set in staying away?

Sound off in the comments below!