Live-Streamed CNN Channel With New Shows Set to Debut on Max
variety.com
You might call it CNN Headline News — for the streaming era. Warner Bros. Discovery plans to unveil a 24/7 live-streamed news service called “CNN Max” on September 27, and indicat…

CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

The enshittification of our world continues unabated.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    562·
    1 year ago

    CNN is not relevant to me or my generation. It is a rage bait channel for boomers. Nothing productive is ever discussed on there. It is a giant circle jerk about Trump’s latest outrage. They beat every topic to absolute death. I’m sorry, I have other things to do besides watch a bunch of mannequins find ways to fill 12 hours of air time from a 2 minute news clip.

    If you start interrupting my escape from the daily news cycle with useless breaking news alerts, not only will I kill you, I’ll also cancel my subscription to Max.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is just a ridiculous idea that only a geriatric boomer could come up with. If there was breaking news we cared about, we’d get a notification on our phone. Unless we intentionally put our phone on silent because we wanted to enjoy something without interruption.

      They’re really going to push everyone to running their own home servers to watch pirated content again. For a few years they had a product where for a like $10/mo we could just watch whatever without ads, and it was legitimately better than piracy. They’re just hell bent on ruining that.

    • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      i wish they had a plan that only had hbo content, most of the time the other stuff just gets in the way and is annoying to scroll past. maybe they could call it “hbo max”