CNN Launches CNN+

[TheBigA]

CNN announces its new subscription-based online streaming channel CNN+.

CNN announces CNN+, 'most important launch for network since Ted Turner' | CNN Business

CNN is hiring hundreds of people and developing dozens of programs for a subscription streaming service that will launch early next year.

www.cnn.com

It will compete with Fox Nation and other subscription services.

 

[Don CT]

Are there any subscriber numbers for Fox Nation?

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Jenn Suozzo, ‘NBC Nightly News’ Executive Producer, Expected to Join CNN Plus

Jenn Suozzo, a veteran NBC News producer who has been working as the top producer at “NBC Nightly News,” will step away from the broadcast and is expected to be the latest high-profile …

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Jenn Suozzo is named to be one of the EP's joining CNN+.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

CNN Taps Executives For New Streaming Service To Launch Next Year

Nancy Han and Jennifer Suozzo are among the new executives joining CNN+, the network’s new subscription streaming service set to launch in the first quarter of next year. Han will be vice pre…

deadline.com

More announcements on who will join the management at CNN+.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

CNN+ targets March 2022 launch priced at $5.99/month: report

CNN+, the cable news network’s upcoming subscription streaming service, is reportedly targeting a March 2022 launch date and a $5.99 per month price tag. | CNN+, the cable news network’s upcoming subscription streaming service, is reportedly targeting a March 2022 launch date and a $5.99 per...

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March 2022 is the launch date for CNN+.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-to-carry-cnn-plus-in-new-deal-with-warnermedia

Comcast has a carriage deal to carry CNN+ app.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://variety.com/2022/sports/news/rex-chapman-cnn-plus-show-1235156237/

Rex Chapman to join CNN+

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Report cites fewer than 10,000 daily viewers for CNN+

Two new reports suggest that WarnerMedia’s CNN+ streaming-news show is drawing the sort of viewership numbers more associated with a C-SPAN stream of a subcommittee hearing. | Two new reports suggest that WarnerMedia’s CNN+ streaming-news show is drawing the sort of viewership numbers more...

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Note this is the current viewership for CNN+.

 

[Marcos_C]

Report cites fewer than 10,000 daily viewers for CNN+

Two new reports suggest that WarnerMedia’s CNN+ streaming-news show is drawing the sort of viewership numbers more associated with a C-SPAN stream of a subcommittee hearing. | Two new reports suggest that WarnerMedia’s CNN+ streaming-news show is drawing the sort of viewership numbers more...

www.fiercevideo.com

Note this is the current viewership for CNN+.

This is not surprising since there are lots of free alternatives for news. I certainly am not going to pay $5.99 a month to a network that I rarely turn to for news.

 

[TheBigA]

Note this is the current viewership for CNN+.

The service isn't a traditional ad-supported channel. so viewership numbers don't matter. Bloomberg says 100,000 people signed up for CNN+ in its first week:

CNN+ Is Said to Surpass 100,000 Subscribers in Its First Week

Under pressure from new owner Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. to justify its costs, CNN’s streaming service eclipsed 100,000 subscribers in its first week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

www.bloomberg.com

That's a half million dollars for just the single CNN+ service. The CEO of Discovery Networks says he plans to include CNN+ in a specially priced bundle later this year. So that should make CNN+ more competitive.

CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users

The paltry audience casts doubt on the future of CNN+ following the recently completed combination of Discovery and WarnerMedia

www.cnbc.com

It’s possible, if not likely, that CNN+ programming will be offered as part of a larger bundled offering of HBO Max and Discovery+, according to people familiar with the matter. Both of those services have millions of subscribers.

 

[CTListener]

R.I.P., CNN+. To be killed off at the end of April. As this story notes, the project was largely Zucker's baby and he's no longer at CNN.

CNN+ streaming service to shut down after just one month

Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled the plug on CNN+ after the network’s recently launched streaming service failed to resonate with viewers. It will cease operations on April 30.

www.foxnews.com

 

[PTBoardOp94]

R.I.P., CNN+. To be killed off at the end of April. As this story notes, the project was largely Zucker's baby and he's no longer at CNN.

Wow. That makes quite a fool of some of the high-profile journalists they hired (Chris Wallace, Audi Cornish and others).

 

[Don CT]

Wow. That makes quite a fool of some of the high-profile journalists they hired (Chris Wallace, Audi Cornish and others).

Wallace will be fine. He will move to CNN regular.

 

[AMRocks]

Once the new CNN president takes over and redirects the network to (likely) more straight forward news, I expect to see them launch another streaming service. It likely will be part of a combined HBO Max and Discovery+. I'd bet they won't name it CNN+.

 

[AMRocks]

Wallace will be fine. He will move to CNN regular.

I feel bad for him. He left Fox, in part, because he got tired of doing the politics shows. He said he'd do other types of programs for CNN+. But if they move him back to CNN (and I agree with you, they will,) he'll be back to doing the same stuff he always did.

 

[Don CT]

I feel bad for him. He left Fox, in part, because he got tired of doing the politics shows. He said he'd do other types of programs for CNN+. But if they move him back to CNN (and I agree with you, they will,) he'll be back to doing the same stuff he always did.

CNN wants to move to hard news programming.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/chris-wallace-cnn-sunday-1235270703/

Chris Wallace CNN+ show is moving to the main CNN feed.

Chris Wallace left a Sunday show on Fox News Channel to jump into the world of streaming at CNN. But now he’s going back to a weekend format for which he is best known.

Wallace will take the reins of a new Sunday program on CNN, the network announced Wednesday during an upfront presentation for its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. He will essentially reprise the program he had been doing for CNN+, a one-on-one talk program called “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” that will also appear on the company’s large HBO Max streaming service. Wallace will continue to serve as an anchor for CNN, which he joined in January 2022 after anchoring Fox News Sunday for nearly two decades.

 

[TheBigA]

Chris Wallace CNN+ show is moving to the main CNN feed.

They were using him as an election analyst last night.