Posted on 09/26/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by DFG
The most-visited news website in the United States is trying out a paywall.
In early October, CNN will begin experimenting with charging some readers for digital access as part of a bid to shore up its business as cable television erodes industrywide, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
The company is planning a so-called metered model, which will require the site’s habitual users to pay after reading a certain number of articles, the people said. Many other publishers, including The New York Times and The New Yorker, have used metered paywalls to generate subscriptions over the past decade.
The starting price of a subscription is unclear. But the two people said that CNN would start with an inexpensive offering to gauge customer demand.
A CNN spokeswoman declined to comment.
The subscription wall is one of the first major business initiatives from Mark Thompson, CNN’s chairman and chief executive, who joined the network nearly a year ago. Mr. Thompson said in a memo to employees this year that technology would allow CNN to deliver journalism that readers “will pay for” and later said that the company would try out a paywall.
Mr. Thompson is the former chief executive of The Times, where he championed a digital subscription business that now powers the company. Since joining CNN, he has hired executives to help lay the groundwork for the network’s paywall push, including Alex MacCallum, a veteran of The Times who is now CNN’s executive vice president of digital products and services.
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Good, make those libs pay for their propaganda.
Their viewers increase 10-fold easy.
“ “Most visited website” - only because the algorithm from Gulag sends you there first.”
Very interesting. I wonder if the ease of access to cnn.com is also manipulated. I have occasionally gone to cnn.com when I was unable to get into a website that I frequent. I just did this to check to see if my Internet was working properly though I didn’t bother reading anything on cnn.com.
What’s a CNN? (asking for a fiend) : )
OnlyFanatics
Whenever I hit a paywall I simply back away and do another search. There is very little I am willing to pay for since there is usually the information I want on a “free” site.
I guess they need the money for Stelter's buffet budget and Toobin's lube bill since they brought back both.
Virtual birds don't need virtual newsprint to line the bottom of their virtual cages.
People ignore CNN for free and I doubt that they want to upgrade their service and pay for the privilege.
If you pay them, does that give standing to sue for fraud if they are delivering “news” that they know is fake?
Try nakednews.com
The ONLY people who will subscribe to such a "paywall" are BRAIN-DEAD LIBERALS.
I haven’t checked out CNN website since 2001.
This is not going to go well.
I take no credit for that one. /s
No one will pay to watch and no advertiser will pay for the low viewership. Recipe for failure.
A crooked bag man will dump $200 million and CNN will claim it gained 20 million subscribers. Another money laundering operation.
That’s nothing. I have them and the other MSM sites DNS blackholed with PiHole.
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