Yeah, I’m not sure how it would happen to be honest. Pay tv non-streaming is basically dyeing over hear. They really need to be taken over by some one and they need it to happen now other wise there will be no chance at all of this happening.
haha to be fair, their dayside is pretty decent.
Better still merge the CNN Philippines version into an Asia-Pacific wide version
True.
But WBD has ordered $100m in cuts from CNN
Cory cutting is accelerating at a faster pace than expected. And CNN must find it’s way in a streaming world where people now get news from YouTube and video Tik Tok
The reality is the train has left the station and it can’t come back - the days of news being news and not some kind of shouty, highly targeted opinion-laden telling of current events are sadly over. Every news outlet is trying to find what kind of output works for them at ever lowering cost, meanwhile, these shifts have direct input into some significant real-world consequences.
While it makes sense to chase the audience on places like YouTube and TikTok - algorithm-driven platforms are not particularly conducive to quality news reporting - we’ve already seen some of this.
The future of news is a real challenge without the need to deliver it for peanuts.
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Agreed, however surely there will always be a market for high-quality news?
And surely a portion of the population will always be disinterested in hyper-partisan opinions?
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Sure - but will they pay for it?
People are abandonning paid cable like Foxtel, Sky and cable in the US leaving Fox, CNN, Sky News etc homeless in the decade ahead.
CNN needs to work out a post cable future
Sky News too
Sky News is on FTA in 35% of Australia but not the other 65%
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FAST is a big part of their future. It’s good to see CNN embrace it. They broadcast their full linear International service in several countries now for free, as well as their tailored ‘CNN FAST’ channel in other countries. PlutoTV, Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Rakuten, Vizio, etc all carry a form of CNN. They need to grow on that and offer their channel for free on more platforms, in my opinion.
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Really think CNN should lock in Poppy and Phil as the morning combo.
Also noticed they’ve been mixing up late night hosts.
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Judging by how coy Foxtel is how about it’s paid subscribers numbers for Flash, it gives a strong clue that people in general don’t want to pay for news if they can avoid it - regardless of political leanings.
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As @KICK-IT points out, finding an audience to pay for it will be the challenge - I doubt many outside of real news junkies (and those who don’t want to exit their chosen echo chamber) will pay for news-driven streaming services and the likely long-term demise of linear driven delivery will make it harder to achieve. It’s hard to see how a legacy brand like CNN (and Sky UK and possibly Fox) survives in an environment where they don’t have cable/satellite broadcasters to piggyback on.
Moving to a FAST model might help - but I do wonder about the long-term viability of these FAST offerings, are they attracting enough viewers for the economics to add up? In some respects, time will tell.
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Not true. Sky News is carried on FTA in regional QLD, NSW and VIC via Southern Cross Austereo.
It’s also now on Samsung Smart TV and the day will come when it’s beamed on metro FTA services.
It wouldn’t be far off the mark - the Metro/Regional split is roughly 40/60 and the markets that Sky is broadcast in makes up the vast majority of that 40% (~7m of the ~9m is in the 4 Sky markets)
Puck News’ Dylan Byers tweeted June 24, 2023 that the network plans to change its graphics “back” to the “old style,” within two to three weeks though this report did not make it clear to what extent the network would switch things back.
However, a source told NewscastStudio that CNN’s first round of changes is focused on making the fonts more legible.
The source confirmed that another phase of changes will come soon, but that the network is not completely abandoning the new look. The source did not independently confirm the timeline.
While the June 2023 design did lend a lighter, more elegant feel to one of the network’s most prominent visual elements, it’s also easy to see how lower visibility became an issue.
maybe tweaks to the new graphics it is, rather than a full reset back to the 2014-2023 graphics
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What is not true ?
NBC NEWS NOW is claimed to be profitable by comcast
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Kaitlan Collins’ 9pm hour has a name… The Source with Kaitlan Collins. The show is launching Monday and promotion for it began yesterday during its 4th of July music spectacular.
https://twitter.com/bristei/status/1676405188268007424
The new show is recycling a name from a CNN+ original live show, which had CNN Chief National Affairs Analyst Kasie Hunt as presenter:
The temporary management dropping the “elegant design” from the new supers in favour of an updated version of the prior designs is also showing when special events happen: last night, as its 4th of July presentation was broadcast for the 4th consecutive year, it promoted the event with a countdown using the full width of the lower thirds, meaning flipper and clock/markets bug were culled for the day and the headline strap is thrown above its usual place.
We might expect something similar for next year’s election, but with the election vidiprinters and results supers instead of the countdown.
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I do always find NewsCast articles like this quite humorous. The way they over-analyse text, elements, as well as explain the graphic positioning always put a smile on my face haha
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and the way they throw some subtle shade every now and then haha
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The Source with Kaitlan Collins graphics look crap
What is up with the buffed steel/metal-looking component?
Was hoping for something more similar to the CNN+ show of the same name.