Common Cents Blog: #Failure #23Days - CNN+ announces it is shutting down after 23 DAYS!

The announcement was made after 23 days broadcasting - they will soldier on until the end of the month! Obviously, this is not a surprise to anyone who has watched CNN - these fools actually thought there were people out there (<10K) who would PAY to watch their dribble.

Via Redstate.

As conservatives were quick to point out months ago, the writing was on the wall for the eventual failure of the CNN+ paid streaming service well before it officially launched at the end of March. After all, the ratings for CNN itself were in a freefall – still are, in fact, with no end in sight. So how could they have realistically expected to be successful in trying to get consumers excited enough about their (questionable) content that people would actually start paying for monthly subscriptions to a supposedly more upscale version of it?
The answer was they couldn’t have realistically expected it, which may be why they were practically giving away subscriptions at launchtime. Perhaps the higher-ups at the network and their parent company were sharing tokes when the idea was formed. I dunno. In any event, as we reported earlier, the announcement was made to CNN staffers Thursday afternoon that CNN+ would be shutting down at the end of April after a mere month in operation.
With this news came some understandable dunking on some of CNN+’s hosts like media hall monitor Brian Stelter, who from what I could see was providing the exact same type of stale “Fox News sucks” “Ron DeSantis is the enemy” blather on CNN+ that one regularly gets from him and his colleagues on the free side.

There were also a lot of swipes taken at Chris Wallace, who was considered the “big star” of CNN+, and who The Usual Suspects at CNN were gloating over when it was revealed that he had left his longtime perch at Fox News to work for what amounted to Fox News viewers as “The Enemy.”

Though Wallace, too, hinted even before his big debut that he also knew the writing was on the wall, he soldiered on perhaps thinking he and he alone could rescue the troubled service as it struggled mightily to gain traction.

In the end, he couldn’t, and in the epic trolls of epic trolls, his former employer made sure to get their own digs in on Wallace and some of Fox News’ more prominent haters at the purported “news” network with the story they filed on the fall of CNN+:

CNN+ will shut down one month after launch