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.
Our news was at 5 and 10 (all 3 channels).