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Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau... by bin_bash on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:02PM (#31112061)
> the market has spoken

No because "Anderson Cooper 360 without ads" isn't what they put on there, they put on the documentaries—not the pundits. Perhaps you don't like the pundits but the average CNN viewer does and I think might willing to pay $3/month for it.

In fact I was surprised that paying for CNN+ I couldn't even watch Anderson Cooper 360 with ads! All you get is a 10-minute per day preview live stream of CNN unless you can "login through your cable provider".

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Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau... by hintymad on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:48PM (#31115607)
Sounds a classic case of innovator's dilemma. The "classic" CNN simply wouldn't let CNN+ have all the resource they needed for that would hurt the cash cow of the "classic" CNN.
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Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau... by moralestapia on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:23PM (#31113298)
>the average CNN viewer does and I think might willing to pay $3/month for it

No, that didn't happen, see [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31111276

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Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau... by diputsmonro on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:39PM (#31115521)
Their point is that the average CNN viewer might be willing to pay for a service with different content. CNN+ did not serve the content they were referring to, so your flippant footnote does not apply.
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