Re:The chaotic collapse of CNN+
by res0nat0r on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:02PM
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I've just read that live CNN wasn't even available on CNN+. That's idiotic. I can't get CNN without a full fledged cable subscription, but if this was cheap and offered a CNN livestream I'd think about it, but not even offering the live feed is just absurd.
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The only reason CNN still exists is because it's bundled with cable and everyone gets (and pays for) CNN on a basic cable tier. The brutal truth? Almost nobody watches CNN unless something very significant happens. On the flip side, almost everybody with cable pays for CNN.
To be fair, if I need to test dns I always nslookup cnn.com … just muscle memory for 35 years …
… and I am in a much more desirable demo …
Re:The chaotic collapse of CNN+
by onionisafruit on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:32PM
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I do the same. I used to load cnn.com because it was easy to tell if I was getting a cached page. The current time was displayed and rendered by the server.
I thought cnn was already free to stream on networks such as plutotv. (https://pluto.tv/en/live-tv/cnn). I don’t know if it is a full stream or highlights though, since I never actually watched it. I use Pluto mostly for Bloomberg.