Posted on 03/30/2022 4:36:47 PM PDT by dynachrome
Employees at CNN’s new streaming service, CNN+, are reportedly bracing themselves for layoffs in the upcoming months due to low subscription numbers, Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino reported Wednesday.
The network announced the launching of their streaming platform Tuesday, but it was soon reported that layoffs could occur as early as May. The channel could also be merged into the platform Discovery Plus unless the number of subscriptions increase, according to Gasparino.
“@CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up to 130,” Gasparino tweeted.
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Is Wallace still claiming the laptop was debunked?
Quitters. It’s only been a few weeks and they already throw in the towel.
Of course the platform would fail, asking people to pay for more of the same stuff they already get for free.
I don’t know much about the Fox streaming service, but it seems they offer a lot of original content and the Murdochs are super flush with Disney money. They can afford to give it a run.
130 what? Million? Thousand? Or are they looking for just 130 subscribers like some 100 watt NPR station with a closet full of tote bags and no one to carry them?
Hey Chris, how’s the new gig going?
Let me know as soon as the deep state drops your narrative in your inbox with instructions on which camera to look into.
LOL - what idiot with an MBA ever thought people would pay to watch CNN hacks serving up the Democratic Party’s propaganda?
Did they really think that many people are willing to pay a separate bill for their content?!?
This was doomed to fail from the start.
The get less than 800k total unique viewers on an average day, do they really think there is a huge demand among those 800k for more?!?
The exec who greenlit CNN+ should be fired.
true display of narcissism expecting any significant amount of paid subscriptions for CNN. only reason people watch the TV CNN in the numbers they do is because its more or less free... who the hell would actually pay to watch that show??
IIRC, it lowered its subscription price a few weeks ago. That was probably a good indicator that it was in trouble, already.
Considering the low nightly viewership of CNN, what did they expect?
The only thing worse than Fox Nation is apparently CNN+.
Chris says: “On second thought, let’s NOT make a deal!”
Maybe they thought some of that cash they funneled through Act Blue (like Black Lives Matters donations) would prop up their propaganda racket? What happened?
“ The exec who greenlit CNN+ should be fired.”
She will be hired by the Harris 2024 campaign.
CNN ratings have collapsed. What made them think people would pay a monthly fee? Maybe a swan song.
Just like Air America folded back a long time ago.
Steaming service.
Golly I know what the American public has not got enough of and is hungry for....unhinged Leftist propaganda in media.
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