Who is affected and how is the severance?
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One thing that I haven't seen discussed is that the average age of a CNN viewer is 64. Building a streaming service around an elderly audience seems like it'd be tricky. That doesn't mean that it is impossible -- Fox News has done it reasonably well with Fox Nation and Fox News viewers have an average age of 68 (just like MSNBC).
But was this programming built for their elderly audience, or was it supposed to be an attempt at picking up a new, younger audience? Who was this for?
You watch a program like CBS Sunday Morning and it's clear they know who their audience is. Each week, they feature who passed away. They feature anniversaries of things like the Godfather and other stuff that their audience will like to reminisce about. A comedian talking about aging gracefully. Etc. But I don't think CNN did any of that with CNN+.
done and done...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-04-21/warner-discovery-is-set-to-shut-down-cnns-streaming-service-less-than-a-month-after-launch