CBS News does not download

[cdn-content]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

PASTE VERBOSE LOG HERE

C:\>youtube-dl -v "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08/" --ffmpeg-location "C:\Program Files (x86)\youtube-dl\ffmpeg\bin"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08/', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\youtube-dl\\ffmpeg\\bin']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-86175-g64ea4d1, ffprobe N-86175-g64ea4d1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[cbsnews] harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: A Harvard geneticist's goal: to protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, and aging
[cbsnews] playlist A Harvard geneticist's goal: to protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, and aging: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 474, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2018, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 807, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1007, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 869, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\cbsnews.py", line 29, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 899, in _parse_json
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 312, in loads
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Description

Can't download videos from CBS News/60 Minutes. I've done so in the past, and it seems like youtube-dl recognizes a video but isn't able to extract it. Is this an issue with the site or with the program itself?

[michaelcrossland1979]

That happens from time to time on the cbsnew.com site they change stuff there all the time.
Ifg it's not working there it's almost 99% working on the cbs.com site and no you don't have to have the all access stuff to do 60 minutes or face or the nightly news.

[anonvoy]

cbs.com won't work outside the US (and possibly Canada and Australia), not even the news shows ("This video isn't available in your region. ") cbsnews.com however works.

[merval]

@cdn-content have you tried updating to 2020.07.28? I can download cbsnews videos with it.