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Warner Bros Discovery Lays off CNN CFO, Suspends Marketing Spend (CNN+ a total failure)
money.usnews.com ^ | 4/19/22

Posted on 04/19/2022 10:20:26 AM PDT by cotton1706

Warner Bros Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for its recently launched streaming service CNN+ and laid off CNN's finance chief Brad Ferrer,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bradferrer; chriswallace; clintonnonnews; cnn; cnnminus; cnnplus; discovery; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pisswallace; ronklain; warnerbros
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To: cotton1706

21 posted on 04/19/2022 10:34:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cotton1706

——Discovery executives are focused mostly on returning CNN to its journalistic core, a point Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav reiterated in a town hall last week. That includes less of a focus on primetime perspective programming, and more of a focus on hard, breaking news. CNN+ features an array of soft news content, which doesn’t align with Discovery’s broader vision for CNN.-——

That is, return to Ted Turner’s vision that has been politically corrupted. News, facts, Truth.....= $$$


22 posted on 04/19/2022 10:34:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Boogieman

Reality is not a familiar condition to leftist media types. In the delusional world in which they exists they believe that everyone is anxious to partake of the stuff they produce.


23 posted on 04/19/2022 10:35:24 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: bert

Who’s talking to Chris Wallace.

Who cares ?


24 posted on 04/19/2022 10:36:03 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: cotton1706

25 posted on 04/19/2022 10:37:22 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: cotton1706

People can get local / national / world news for free 24 7.

There is nothing about CNN+ that makes it different from what people can get for free.


26 posted on 04/19/2022 10:38:39 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Arcadian Empire

“There is nothing about CNN+ that makes it different from what people can get for free.”

I think they were just trying to get on the streaming bandwagon.

But how many friggin streaming services can there be?? I have like four right now.


27 posted on 04/19/2022 10:39:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: GOPJ

He could always learn to code.


28 posted on 04/19/2022 10:40:22 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: cotton1706

Somebody at the home office looked up and saw the vultures circling. If they were expecting a Lesko Brandon bailout as a propaganda organ they should have arranged it in advance. Plus ten percent for the Big Guy.


29 posted on 04/19/2022 10:42:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: cotton1706

numerous free ones - most of which are junk, but you can get a few dozen that are high quality.

Not to mention more and more free over the air channels.

Pointless to pay for more, and certainly pointless to pay for CNN+ - wouldn’t load it up if it were free.


30 posted on 04/19/2022 10:44:02 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: GOPJ

Hope his contract wasn’t guaranteed


31 posted on 04/19/2022 10:45:25 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: CFW

no one except the poor schlubs stuck at the airports


32 posted on 04/19/2022 10:46:10 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: cotton1706

Why would any decision maker at CNN think that CNN+ would have been a good idea?


33 posted on 04/19/2022 10:46:54 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: cotton1706
CNN+ is a worse idea than painting pictures of Obama on garden rocks


34 posted on 04/19/2022 10:50:53 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Ge0ffrey; 1Old Pro
He's like Megyn, walking away with a pile of cash for doing nothing.

But like Megyn, Katie Couric, Bill O'Reilley, Dan Rather, and every other has-been media personality, money isn't what produces self-actualization. Being taken out of "the game" and rendered "non-relevant" is like The End for them.

Most of us have God, family, a job that's meaningful, and that keeps us going. Most of these talking heads are on spouse #3+, are atheists/agnostic, and measure "meaningful" by Nielsen.

The pile of cash doesn't make these people happy. Relevance, power, and a fawning audience, is what they crave. The cash may as well be straw...I mean it provides them the creature comforts to which they're deserving(!), but therein lies the problem.

35 posted on 04/19/2022 10:51:49 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: cotton1706

See ya later Chris!!!


36 posted on 04/19/2022 10:54:21 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: rktman

“If only they had gotten Gen Pus-sackee to move to be on cnn+.......”

Almost as good, CNN to some degree wants to clean house. Ginger Goebbels only had one game in town MSNBC. That killed her negotiating power of her Agent playing CNN against MSNBC and vice versa. Suck it Sackee.


37 posted on 04/19/2022 10:59:47 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: bert

I met Lynn Russell, one of the main anchors for CNN in those days, at a Veterans Day 2020 event, and she was clearly totally disgusted with what CNN has become.


38 posted on 04/19/2022 11:02:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cotton1706

Don’t need two CFOs.


39 posted on 04/19/2022 11:04:37 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: cotton1706

Just asking...

Can Neilson ratings go into negative territory?


40 posted on 04/19/2022 11:15:20 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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