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.

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months 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.