CNN’s streaming service shutting down a month after launch

How about a Blast From The Past! I think this is kewl because the CNN Board basically let “One monkey stop its show - and the monkey was Jeff Zucker. Who is hooting and waving branches all the way to the bank)

CNN hires failed gimmick king
After years of awful ratings, the network is handing its reins to Jeff Zucker — the man who destroyed NBC
By Alex Pareene
Published November 29, 2012 9:27PM (EST)

Sooo Loony! (online mag)

Who better for the job of turning around CNN than the man who took NBC from first to last? Jeff Zucker, the brain behind TV’s “Joey,” is going to be the new president of CNN Worldwide. The decision basically confirms that CNN, and Time Warner, have no clue what’s “wrong” with their struggling channel, nor the first idea as to how to fix it.

It’s been pointed out before that CNN doesn’t actually need rescuing. The ratings at the flagship channel are atrocious, but the organization is profitable and its international arm is respected and successful. Departing CNN Worldwide executive Jim Walton was quite successful at making Time Warner money.

Its primary problem is one of “embarrassment”: the embarrassment that the clowns of Fox News and MSNBC are beating them in prime-time ratings, primarily, but also the embarrassment the very serious and good journalists of CNN feel regarding the shoddy product the bosses have been producing over the last few years.

Zucker is theoretically capable of reversing the ratings trend, though I wouldn’t hold my breath. But he’s definitely never shown any ability or interest in producing less embarrassing programming. The man to rescue CNN from a loathsome charlatan like Piers Morgan is not the man who made Donald Trump a nationally recognized prime-time television clown.

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Here’s the Zucker story, in brief: Wunderkind revives a moribund “Today” show and makes it the No. 1 morning show, and is then rewarded with promotion after promotion at NBC Universal even though he fails utterly at each successive new job. By the end of his tenure, NBC is seemingly stuck in last place in the ratings forever and GE is finally ridding itself of its broadcasting arm entirely. (Also he screwed over Conan O’Brien, who once pranked him at Harvard.)

You don’t hire Jeff Zucker if you want to create a more credible news organization. You hire him for gimmickry and “buzz” and you do so with the understanding that it could all blow up in everyone’s face and essentially destroy your entire organization. So have fun, CNN.

Liberals are cheapskates… was not accounted for in the bobble head meetings where hey all assured each other that they were going to rake in billions

All the lower level workers who were let go should check with Fox News. They might be hiring … for parking garage valets, bathroom attendants, or janitors.

CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht said consumers wanted “simplicity and an all-in service” rather than stand-alone offerings.

I think what consumers really want is a news service based on the truth, and that ain't CNN. See Tagline.

I think they have advertised a medicine for “weak streams”!