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1240, 21 Apr 22

RIP CNN+

I would really like to see the business plan that said this would work.

Warner Bros Discovery will shut down CNN+ after less than a month because the $300million flop failed to take off.

 

CNN CEO Chris Licht said it would be pulled at the end of April due to consumers wanting ‘simplicity and an all-in service’ rather than ‘standalone offerings’.

 

He admitted the decision was ‘incredibly difficult’ but claimed it was ‘the right one for the long term success’ of the company.

 

CNN+ Andrew Morse will leave the firm but it was not clear what will happen to at least 200 reporters and hosts such as Chris Wallace and Eva Longoria.

 

Licht said those who worked for CNN ‘will get opportunities to apply for jobs elsewhere inside Warner Bros Discovery’.

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1240, 21 April 2022

11 Comments

  1. jonnyv

    Its funny. I agree with you Owen, I don’t see how or why this was ever going to work.

    Fox news has their Fox Nation, but it really feels like Fox News has that “cult” following. If you watch Fox News… it is ALL YOU WATCH (for news). At least the burn in on my grandmother’s TV would suggest that. “Hey, do you like to feel angry, scared, and slightly conspiratorial… we got the add-on for you. Fox Nation!”

    CNN doesn’t have that kind of following or ratings.

  2. Mar

    Wow, Johnny, you have some pretty bizzare views on conservatives and where we get news.
    Please tell me the last time Owen used Fox as a source? Or other conservative web sites.
    At least Fox will bring in true liberals, though like most liberals, they are not very smart and speak from emotion rather facts, just like you.

  3. jonnyv

    Mar, I didn’t say a word about conservatives. I said “people who watch Fox News”. You are projecting.

  4. Mar

    Well, who watches Fox News more, conservatives or liberals.
    Granted, more liberals probably watch Fox than many shows on CNN and MSNBC.

  5. jonnyv

    Mar. I don’t know who watches Fox news more. Probably conservatives, but I do know that some liberals tune into the awful editorial shows like Tucker & Hannity.

    Jason, it is a comedy show. There have been NUMEROUS comedies regarding men getting pregnant. Last time I checked, Arnold Schwarzenegger still hasn’t been “cancelled” and he put out the mediocre movie Junior back in the 90’s.

    Overall, just let people be who they want and call them what they want, it really doesn’t harm you. Empathy, sympathy, and politeness go a long way.

  6. Jason

    >Jason, it is a comedy show.

    My favorite part of this is the people en masse without any organizing that are dropping their subscriptions.

    >Overall, just let people be who they want and call them what they want, it really doesn’t harm you. Empathy, sympathy, and politeness go a long way.

    I let people be who they want to be, but I’ll call them what I want to call them, it really doesn’t harm them. Thanks jv.

  7. MjM

    If the CommieNewsNetwork moneybags had simply paid any heed to their tanking broadcast ratings they might not have attempted this silly Pay For Crap sideshow. No doubt the thinking was, “hey, if nobody Joe Rogan can bring more viewers than our nightly regular loudmouths there must be something enticing about paying for it!”

    Chris Wallace butthurt the worst. Sweet.

  8. dad29

    just let people be who they want and call them what they want, it really doesn’t harm you

    No, but it harms them. And ‘normalizing’ various perversions harms children.

  9. Mar

    “I do know that some liberals tune into the awful editorial shows like Tucker & Hannity.”
    Maybe they will learn something useful.

  10. Tuerqas

    JonnyV, I would have said you are the one projecting here, multiple times.

    1) “Fox news has their Fox Nation, but it really feels like Fox News has that “cult” following. If you watch Fox News… it is ALL YOU WATCH (for news).”

    Here, the clear liberal formed stereotype is that ‘the right’ watches Fox news and the gibe is clearly aimed from a person on the left to us here on the right. Just because you then namby-pambied and tried to sidestep/back up the truck by saying ‘I didn’t say conservatives’ it is clear who you were dissing. If you truly didn’t mean the audience here, you might just want to preface it next time and tell us all who you are trying to offend ahead of time. That particular topic has been discussed here before and I believe just about everyone besides Leroy denied watching Fox more than rarely.

    2) ““Hey, do you like to feel angry, scared, and slightly conspiratorial…”

    That describes the liberals I am forced to interact with in real life to a tee. All part of the perpetually offended, sue everyone because it wasn’t my fault liberal crowd. A conservative says ‘Life is rough, get a helmet’, the liberal is mortally offended and goes to his old teachers for a new zero sum game to play.
    Here is the liberal left projecting their failures onto the ‘right’. The left says every word from the right is a conspiracy, it has no meaning from any liberal’s mouth anymore.

    To be clear, I am not intending to mark you as a ‘typical’ liberal of today. You often think way more than liberals commonly do today.

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