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Of course people aren't paying $6 a month for news, they really mis-calculated the audience for this. People who watch CNN already subscribe to cable (Tradition
by mikeweiss 5y ago
Of course people aren't paying $6 a month for news, they really mis-calculated the audience for this. People who watch CNN already subscribe to cable (Traditional or OTT) It should've always just been an add on or included in HBO max for free to add additional value to that streaming platform. It's not too late, they could easily integrate it with HBO max to offer live news to all who subscribe.
- sfblah 5y agoMy take on this was it was just a clone of the Fox News pay service. The CNN one would just be from a left-leaning perspective or some such. I bet if they market it better, it will do OK.
- downrightmike 5y agoThen they've missed the mark, because they aren't left, just center.
- sfblah 5y agoI don't know about the leanings of CNN+, since I don't pay for it. I do know that Don Lemon and (former host) Chris Cuomo are obviously slanted left. I don't know if there's an objective way to measure this, so I just look at my own reactions, as I know I'm a moderate (my most recent presidential votes were Biden, Clinton, Romney, Obama, Bush; and I support about half of each party's political platform -- I'm pro-choice, pro-nuclear, anti-gun, anti-woke).
- dbbk 5y agoIf you've seen anything from Chris Cillizza you wouldn't say CNN is left-leaning. Also, their major star of CNN+ is Chris Wallace who they poached from Fox News.
- sfblah 5y agoThat's interesting. I don't pay for CNN+, so I'm just familiar with their standard news coverage, which is definitely left-slanted.
- colechristensen 5y agoI'd pay $6 a month for actual informative content, but have you ever actually watched cable news for an extended amount of time? It's mostly just inane blathering and repeating the same thing over and over. They just don't have more than 30 minutes worth of information to share each day, but they stretch it to 24 hours. If they upped the information content, lowered the emotional appeal, and just covered a whole lot more I bet they could boost their audience...