CNN+ Shutting Down After a Month [View all]

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Source: Mediaite



Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down CNN+ just three weeks after its launch, Mediaite has learned. Despite CNN executives maintaining that the CNN+ launch was a success, the network suspended the service’s marketing spending and laid off its chief financial officer earlier this week. The New York Times first reported on Thursday that the service will completely cease operations on April 30. CNN confirmed the news with its own report shortly after.

“Chris Licht, the incoming president of CNN, called an all-hands meeting among CNN+ staffers for noon on Thursday to share the news,” the Times reported. “I feel so badly for them,” a CNN insider told Mediaite, adding that CNN+ “had tons of potential” but “there were certainly some questionable programming decisions.” “A lot of young talented people gave up good jobs to go there,” they said. “That’s the really sad part.”

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