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.

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    991·
    10 months ago

    Great, a CNN “Breaking News” update interrupting your movie or show every time Trump pinches off a fresh new loaf on Pravda Social; just what everyone wants!

    • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      10 months ago

      I’m not currently subscribed, but if they don’t have an option to disable this I will never subscribe again. For that matter, any streaming service that doesn’t allow me to watch a movie/show uninterrupted from beginning to end is a showstopper for me. I can only imagine what streaming services will start doing if they are okay with adding a banner or cutting a stream for news. Ads will be right behind it.

      • jantin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, then they get bolder and force full-screen ads in the middle of a film and then exhausted subscribers (the three that will be left) will force a co cession from the corporate to have the ads blocked together instead of randomly popping up… Oh wait…

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      I have the cbs news app on my phone. Yesterday I got a breaking news push notification informing me that someone caught a big alligator. I can’t imagine the rage I’d be filled with if I was immersed in a show only to be interrupted by a pop up like that.

      Or to use the recent hurricane coverage as an example:

      • Breaking: Hurricane Project To Hit Florida
      • Breaking: Hurricane Projected to be 'Major Hurricane ’
      • Breaking: Hurricane Strengthens to Category 3 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
      • Breaking: Hurricane Strengths to Category 4 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
      • Breaking: Hurricane Makes Landfall in Florida
      • Breaking: Hurricane Downgraded to Category 2 Hours After Landfall in Florida
      • Breaking: Small City Faces Sever Flooding from Hurricane
      • Breaking: Hurricane Crosses into Georgia

      Etc. Pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up. Id either stop watching Max or have to ask my doc to prescribe blood pressure meds.

      • keeb420@kbin.social
        7·
        10 months ago

        I agree. I can understand interrupting the show for somethings. Earthquake early warning, fine. A celebrity going to rehab, not ok.

    • abracaDavid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Yeah it’s just gonna be “breaking news” that turns out to just be fear mongering. Kinda like how pretty much all major news sources have been for the last 20(?) years.

      Hard pass.