Posted on 12/26/2021 11:10:04 AM PST by Rummyfan
CNN is far behind FOX News and MSNBC in the ratings. It averages around half a million viewers in prime time and it recently hit a 7-year low in the demo.
So it was the perfect time for Chris Wallace to leave FOX News for CNN+.
Some might have thought that Wallace was leaving to fill Chris Cuomo’s slot at CNN. No such luck, though without Cuomo the failing news network’s ratings have crashed to new lows.
But crashing to new lows is the default story at CNN.
CNN Airport, its captive audience operation, shut down earlier this year. And CNN isn’t far behind. CNN+ is the network’s bet that enough people will pay 6 bucks a month to watch it.
CNN's effort to launch CNN+, a paid streaming service, at a time when its core ratings are crashing is confusing observers who wonder why the news network thinks people will pay for CNN when they won't even watch it for free.
CNN President Jeff Zucker billed CNN+ as being for "CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”
The existence of CNN superfans is as improbable as Bigfoot and UFOs. No one has ever spotted a CNN superfan in the wild and not even the most exotic zoos have them in stock.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Maybe they will make a play for a government subsidy?
Sorry, but market forces are no longer in play here....
They havn’t been for decades.
Thats because the MSM is nothing more than an extension of 3 letter agencies of our federal government, controlled by only God knows who.
I do know this... it’s NOT Joe Biden.
CNN will clean house, and go back to straight news
It wouldn’t matter if CNN only had an audience of 10. It will never die because it isn’t a news organization. It’s an anti-American communist mouthpiece funded by the overlords currently in power.
Too biased to fail?
“news junkies”
They must be talking about brainwashed morons who want more propaganda.
But—even the dumbest of those cretins know that they can get the same leftist gruel from MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS/NPR/New York Slimes/Washington Compost etc etc etc....
Let me know when they run out of pedos to arrest.
I remember when CNN first started in 1980, and it was ADDICTIVE! It was the coolest thing going, for sure. I traveled a lot in that decade, and it really was a daily touchstone to know what was going on in the rest of the world, no matter where I was.
I mean, WHO, in their right mind, wanted to watch endless hour upon hour of news headlines? It was an insanely great idea - that worked!
Then, of course, it decided to become openly Socialist Democrat, and Americans woke up, and the rest, as they say, is HISTORY.
Exactly right.
CNN isn’t about the News.
CNN isn’t really a Business.
They hide themselves as a News Business, but you’ve correctly identified what they really are and why they aren’t going out of business.
“The existence of CNN superfans is as improbable as Bigfoot and UFOs.”
Far less probable. A creature that stupid and pathetic would have a difficult time surviving under any circumstances.
So is FoxNews. They are just undercover double agents for the anti-American communists.
The problem for CNN is that AT&T tired of subsidizing it. Now CNN is on its own and it isn’t pretty.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this good news!
Maybe they will make a play for a government subsidy?
Big Media has been subsidized for years.
It’s called the cable bundle.
How many of the subscribers to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News would really subscribe if they had a choice?
Newspapers are dying because they must depend on real subscribers.
There was a day when you’d turn on CNN when there was breaking news. It was the go-to source.
Then they went political and became all-talk all the time.
Cause and effect? Ratings crashed.
It boggles my mind that any business manager worth his/her/it’s salt would not have adjusted their business model sooner.
But then, This is CNN.
CNN will not crash and burn.
Some Hard Left billionaire or crypto-Marxist foundation will bail it out.
The Hard Left refuses to acknowledge that there are at least a dozen major news and commentary sources that support them politically.
Financial Problem #1 - too much competition for a relatively small audience.
When deep state want’s to undermine and or destabilize foreign countries, one of the first things they do is take over/control their media.
In the U.S., MSM is the de facto communications division for deep state.
Maybe CNN can merge with Court TV and broadcast the trials of CNN personnel.
CNN closing down would be a blessing for us. Which network will follow? MSNBC?
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