Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau...
by bin_bash on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:16PM
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Their cable ratings are down 70%[0] in a year. That baby should be tossed right out with the bathwater if they want a future.
0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/02/21/cnns-rat...
Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau...
by afavour on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:28PM
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That’s not a collapse, it’s a right-sizing. TV news and CNN in particular got a ratings boost during the Trump administration and a huge bump during the 2020 election. The numbers they have now are around where they were in 2015. IMO it doesn’t suggest terminal decline. A headline like that doesn’t get as many clicks, though.
Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau...
by robonerd on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:11PM
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The ads on all of the cable news channels indicate that their audience is rapidly aging. These channels have become background noise for nursing homes.
Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau...
by blakebreeder on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:51PM
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not sure how hundreds of people and millions of dollars spent to produce content that gets the views of a mildly popular bedroom YouTuber doesn't suggest "terminal decline."
Re:CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after lau...
by fullshark on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:11PM
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Well an entire generation of people aren't watching those big-draw cable news programs so status quo thinking = eventual death. Not that they can't pivot when it's really necessary, seems like Disney made the switch at near the optimal time for example, but it's gonna have to happen some day.
That would be a good way to get a little money from streaming and lose a lot of money from cable distribution, not a net win. There's a reason none of the news networks whose owners have streaming services do that with their big-draw cable news programs.