The stars are stepping out for the season four premiere of Stranger Things!
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“Reliable Sources” host said Sunday was doomed from the start because of the timing of its launch the plans of its new owner, Warner Bros. Discovery.Less than a month after the launch of CNN+ — a subscription video streaming news service offshoot of CNN — Warner Bros.
Discovery abruptly shut it down, a “u-turn” that “was front-page news, stunning news, and painful news for everyone involved,” Stelter said, adding, “Years of development possibly down the drain. Some of the shows may never be seen.
Hundreds of staffers may be laid off, though the company is trying to place many of them in new jobs.” But, he said, the streaming service was “doomed” from the start.“Amid these bruising headlines, folks are trying to make sense of it. Some partisans are leading a predictable talking point that it’s about politics.
But the truth is, this was a corporate move,” he said. “This CNN+ service was doomed because of the timing of a merger and clashing streaming strategies.
The new owner, Warner Brothers Discovery has big plans to combine multiple streaming platforms to make one big challenger for Netflix.”Axios reporter Sara Fischer agreed with Stelter’s assumption that the new company assessed the streamer as a potential business loss after Jeff Zucker resigned in February.“After CNN’s head Jeff Zucker exited…executives at Discovery were questioning whether CNN+ fit in within their strategy,” Fischer began, pointing out that those new execs wanted a large competitor for Netflix, but that they saw CNN+ as just a small subscription service.“They thought ‘this is too expensive; it might not ever get to profit on time, and it doesn’t fit in with what we want to do,’” she said. “’It’s better to cut it off now than to keep it lagging for
.The stars are stepping out for the season four premiere of Stranger Things!
Millie Bobby Brown is sharing what fans can expect from Stranger Things season 4!
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