Posted on 04/21/2022 12:50:49 PM PDT by dynachrome
On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.
CNN's goal is to establish closer relationships with news consumers — the same way Netflix (NFLX) and HBO Max have done in entertainment. It has hired hundreds of people and developed dozens of shows for this new platform. Analysts say it is the most ambitious streaming news venture to date in the United States. "We are going to be the only global video-driven news subscription business," CNN chief digital officer and head of CNN+ Andrew Morse said in an interview. The big three broadcast news divisions -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- have streaming channels that are free and ad-supported, but have far less content. MSNBC repurposes some of its programs on NBCUniversal's subscription service, Peacock, while Fox News sells a streamer that focuses on entertainment and right-wing talk, not news. CNN+ is distinct from all of those. Still, the service faces headwinds, including looming management changes and outside skepticism about the service's prospects.
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Brian, People don’t watch your free sh!t, what made you think they would pay for it?...............
Your link goes to a segment from 3 weeks ago.
I think that was his point.
Yup. It’s in the headline. I found it amusing how clueless potato head Stelter is.
Instant, mortifying failure.
30 day shelf life!
And I was so much hoping to get to watch Jake Tapper’s Book Club.
What to expect? A Refund!
There’s enough Leftist activism out there posing as journalism, the market is flooded. In fact, that’s all there is out there.
It was announced today that the service is ending. It didn’t last a month.
I knew the Bee would be all over this! LOL
Well, he probably knew before any of us did.
I don’t know what they were thinking.
Com parring themselves to Netflix and hbo max! Hah!
CNN has absolutely no clue what their place in the world is.
They are a vestigial remnant of a long gone success sprung from a time when people had to wait for their newspaper in the morning, or the 6 and 11 o’clock network news broadcasts. Even back then, it was convenient for people to switch on CNN at odd times of the day because there was no other news source, and that was purely out of convenience. CNN was packaged into the more basic cable tiers like MTV was. Neither one of those networks would have taken off like they did if people had to specifically pay more to subscribe to them. Likewise, neither one of those networks withstood the test of time and of competition. They only flourished when bored people had a remote control in their hands and there weren’t similar alternatives.
TLDR: No one wants to specifically subscribe to CNN.
They’re all getting 9 months severance pay, everyone let go, which is everyone. Lol.
That didn’t age well.
Wait, it didn’t age at all.
Shut down already, kkthx.
#fakenews
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