Posted on 10/18/2025 11:43:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
What could go wrong?
As the ancient proverb says, “if at first you don’t succeed at doing the idiotic thing you were trying to do, raise the price and try to do it all over again.”
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.”
Spoiler alert: CNN superfans are almost as real as Bigfoot and less likely to be spotted in the wild.
CNN charged $2.99 a month for CNN+ which launched in March of 2022, at a cost of $300 million, and shut down in April 2022, at a cost of $300 million.
Now let’s do it all over again but charge even more.
CNN is trying again at a full-service streaming subscription.
The news network announced Thursday its “All Access” subscription will launch in the U.S. on October 28 and cost $6.99 per month or $69.99 annually.
People didn’t want it for $4 a month in 2022, but with inflation, surely they will be ready to pay $7.00 a month for it. Right?
What are CNN’s ratings again?
Among all cable networks, CNN slipped to eighth place from sixth in total viewers and dropped from No. 13 to No. 21 in the demo during primetime. It fell to sixth place from fourth during total day with total viewers and dropped down one spot to No. 9 in the demo.
When you’re in eighth place and dropping, it’s the perfect time to launch a paid streaming service because when people won’t watch you for free, surely...
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Its almost as though the headline stole this from the Babylon Bee!!!
They are really out of touch here. They would have to pay ME to watch it - and it would take a hell of a lot more than $7.00 a month.
If they wanted to pay me $70 to watch....not only NO....
I’d be willing to pay $70/year to not have to listen to CNN every time I walk through an airport...
The theory no doubt being... that only ignorant people were watching CNN for free before anyway. So, only ‘reeeely’ dumb people might think that if it costs $$$ to stream, it must have changed and must have been improved and therefore, it must be worth paying to watch now. It’s a trick. And it will probably work for those gifted with sublime stupidity. You know... your average Democrat.
You are old if you can remember when CNN had news, MTV had music, and the Weather channel had weather. Instead of left wing propaganda, left wing propaganda, and globalist propaganda.
Guess you don’t fly very much, do you? CNN Airport Network, which provided CNN content to TV screens in approximately 50–60 U.S. airports, ceased operations on March 31, 2021.
Been a while since you've been in an airport, hasn't it. CNN airport shut down about the time that the WuFlu was launched.
Rats. You beat me to it by 2 seconds.
Do they have to pay 10 months in advance? The headline doesn’t match the excerpt.
Good insight!
$70?! For that price, Kaitlan Collins would have to come over and give me a massage.
Personally I loved seeing them waste large ammounts of money only to be humiliated and humbled the first time they tried this. So glad they are doing it again so we can enjoy the sweet, sweet salt from their tears one more!
If I actually watched it, I might pay just to get rid of pharmaceutical ads, and law firms to sue pharmaceutical ads.
They used to pay the airports to have CNN on. In most cases they even paid for the TV equipment. This was their attempt to boost their ratings.
A few years ago they were losing so much money they stopped their airport program. If an airport has CNN on they are doing out of their own liberalism and stupidity.
CNN is on its last legs and MTV just announced they will cease to exist on 31 Dec 2025.
I'm not sure about the Weather channel but I never watch it either.
It's CNN. You'll get Caitlyn Jenner instead.
Yes ….that’ll work
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