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CNN+ is dead

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
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Who would have thunk that people would want to pay for more entertaining fiction, like Marvel movies.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
CNN content may come back in a different streaming package. New management doesnt seem to want CNN+ on its own. Who knows. But still a disaster launch.


The decision was made by new management after CNN's former parent company, WarnerMedia, merged with Discovery to form Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this month.

The prior management team's vision for CNN+ runs counter to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's plan to house all of the company's brands under one streaming service. Some CNN+ programming may eventually live on through that service. Other programming will shift to CNN's main television network.

"In a complex streaming market, consumers want simplicity and an all-in service which provides a better experience and more value than stand-alone offerings, and, for the company, a more sustainable business model to drive our future investments in great journalism and storytelling," Discovery's streaming boss J.B. Perrette said in a statement.
 

Boss Mog

Member
1 month? Jesus, that's extremely embarrassing. All that money wasted... Didn't Chris Wallace leave Fox for CNN+?

So these clowns looked at CNN's dismal ratings and thought people actually wanted more CNN they would need to pay for?
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DeepEnigma

Gold Member
1 month? Jesus, that's extremely embarrassing. All that money wasted... Didn't Chris Wallace leave Fox for CNN+?

So these clowns looked at CNN's dismal ratings and thought people actually wanted more CNN they would need to pay for?
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High on their own supply.
 

Rival

Gold Member
Imagine hating yourself enough to actually have subscribed to CNN+. No one watched the regular CNN that comes as part of your cable package unless you happen to be at an airport so what the fuck were they even thinking?
 

RoboFu

One of the green rats
my question is why did they think they could launch this service to start with? Were they truly in such a self contained bubble that they thought their made up viewer base was real?
 
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Hari Seldon

Member
Oh it was a Hulu add-on? Those are complete garbage. There was some deal for Starz or someshit through Hulu and I snagged it, I could only see like 1/10th of the full catalog on the app. Not worth ever buying one of those add-ons imo.
 

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
Oh it was a Hulu add-on? Those are complete garbage. There was some deal for Starz or someshit through Hulu and I snagged it, I could only see like 1/10th of the full catalog on the app. Not worth ever buying one of those add-ons imo.
It was a stand alone service.
 

GeorgioCostanzaX

Gold Member
CNN content may come back in a different streaming package. New management doesnt seem to want CNN+ on its own. Who knows. But still a disaster launch.


The decision was made by new management after CNN's former parent company, WarnerMedia, merged with Discovery to form Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this month.

The prior management team's vision for CNN+ runs counter to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's plan to house all of the company's brands under one streaming service. Some CNN+ programming may eventually live on through that service. Other programming will shift to CNN's main television network.

"In a complex streaming market, consumers want simplicity and an all-in service which provides a better experience and more value than stand-alone offerings, and, for the company, a more sustainable business model to drive our future investments in great journalism and storytelling," Discovery's streaming boss J.B. Perrette said in a statement.
Thank god someone gets it I actually like HBO Max so if they don’t get dumb and try to rename it or change the UI just put a LIVE CNN tab on the App and post backlogs of CNN documentaries, Parts Unknown and other shit. Simple…but somehow they’ll get it wrong I’m sure as big media always does.
 
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BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Oh it was a Hulu add-on? Those are complete garbage. There was some deal for Starz or someshit through Hulu and I snagged it, I could only see like 1/10th of the full catalog on the app. Not worth ever buying one of those add-ons imo.

It could have been on Amazon Prime as a service as well, I really can't remember. I do remember the splash advertisement though because it had Anthony Bourdain which caught my eye. Oh well.
 

clem84

Gold Member
It was never alive.

10,000 subscribers in a country of 330 million people.
For any other publication starting out, these numbers would be pretty solid. The problem is, from what I heard, they dumped millions into developing the service. This is nothing short of a disaster.
 

LordCBH

Member
CNN seems to forget that no one actually watches CNN. It exists to be run in airports and hotels where people don’t have a choice. Absolutely no one sits at home and goes “I’m gonna switch to CNN”.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
CNN seems to forget that no one actually watches CNN. It exists to be run in airports and hotels where people don’t have a choice. Absolutely no one sits at home and goes “I’m gonna switch to CNN”.
CNN was great back in the day where it was the only 24 hour news channel, and there was no internet.

So you'd get up to the minute news snippets, which to me the best part of CNN was their Headline News channel doing sports updates every half hour. My bro's and I used to watch that religiously for up to the minute hockey scores. Desert Storm was cool too because it was constant coverage with night vision goggle mode.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
And nothing of value was lost.
100% true.

Most news outlets are pointless as there's so much coverage now by everyone from big corps to smaller companies to people doing Tweets, the only unique thing traditional news media can do to keep viewers is doing what they do now.... sensationalist skewed hit pieces which resemble a circus or loudmouth editorials than the old way of just having a camera crew show footage and a reporter talking about it. Too slow. Too boring. If people want dopey takes on news, they'll just get it from dopes on Twitter. You dont need million dollar corps with employees dressed in suit and ties for that.

No wonder their ratings (or newspaper subscriptions) are dead.

What news corps have as an advantage beyond what any Tweet can do is did into details and analysis the average person cant. But it's probably one part too lazy and one part it'll be pointless and too late. So the band-aid solution is get a bunch of high paid personalities who can talk well debating and stir controversy for ratings.
 

Hari Seldon

Member
CNN seems to forget that no one actually watches CNN. It exists to be run in airports and hotels where people don’t have a choice. Absolutely no one sits at home and goes “I’m gonna switch to CNN”.
I watch CNN when there is international shit going on like a war. They have enough affiliates and remote reporters and usually are not political when reporting in hard news. The problem is that this lasts for like a week, and then YouTube catches up with local correspondents that are better and less repetitive.
 
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