27-09-2023, 04:38 PM
Uhhhh. Thanks for the screen shots. OK. Im conflicted about this. It looks EXACTLY like i thought. Barebones. Fredricka on a DTL. Jim's blocks seemingly will get to use a set. To get around the US pay-tv providers agreements. They lean HEAVILY on CNNi, schedule-wise to do the heavy lifting. If this stream is eventually going to be shown on MAX globally, thats not a bad thing. More internation news...maybe? But I suspected the MAXNewsroom blocks from Atlanta would be barebones. And it is. And yes I realise they are still moving from CNN Center to Techwood. I just hate these backwards feeling launches.
BUT NOW. They re-invent the wheel with CNN Max and they act like its something completely fresh. They are so behind the wheel. Its frankly so frustrating. The 24hr streaming arena should have been their arena. Back in the day when CBSN launched in 2014 they should have took notice as it was the first serious stab, in my opinion at a Headline News rival. They essentially gave up the game and allowed others to take over the space and completely dominate a place they solidly had locked in for DECADES. A place they completely created.
I mean really what are we doing? Come on!? The leadership upheaval has been so disastrous for CNN. My sticking point starts with the closure of Headline News. So the channel was deemed past its sell-by date, yet we have the launches of numerous streaming 24x7 rolling news channels in the US. When the entire infrastructure was already in place at CNN Center. I blame Zucker & Co. Maybe the channel needed to be shrunk, by it didnt need a huge set Studio7 blah blah blah. But i do think that they should have returned it to its roots. Get rid of the linear cable channel and go full streaming. Return it to its roots. Get rid of the double-head presentations and multiple presenters. Just old school Headline News.
I would have killed off all the crime programming , rename it CNN Headline News. (Dropped the HLN moniker, as its a completely tainted brand from all the rubbish "talking head" crime and political programmes. Ugh remember Glenn Beck) That junk was EXPENSIVE. Big sets and production teams behind it. It was a financial drain. Which resulted in more executive tinkering to make the channel profitable. Dump all that rubbish. I would have created a simple set (in the Atlanta newsroom) and created a new version of what made Headline News popular. Maybe a little less buttoned up but not the "news in the round" format that started all this mess. Thats when they ramped up the money on the channel and it was no longer profitable and the tinkering began to fix it.
So this lame halfhearted attempt feels lame actually. Jim Scuitto and Fredricka seems like a waste to use on this. They have some great anchors that dont need to be wasted in this way. Its basically CNNi with new added newsblocks. What is the eventual end goal of the channel? I cant see it being profitable. I wish them best but clearly they dont know what there are doing. Seemingly. WHich is sad and hard to watch.
Just yesterday everything started to branded breaking news Again....I hope hope hope Mark Thompson can serious-up the channel. The NY Times alongside PBS/NPR are the serious news orgs in the US. I dont expect Mark to recreate CNN into the BBC. Because thats just boring.... like paint to watch. CNN created this space but have ceded it to others. How can he fix it.? Tinkering isnt going to work. I still stand by what I said that NewsCentral was the start of something new and fresh. But its slowly being dismantled.
Whew ok. Long rant over. Sorry guys.
BUT NOW. They re-invent the wheel with CNN Max and they act like its something completely fresh. They are so behind the wheel. Its frankly so frustrating. The 24hr streaming arena should have been their arena. Back in the day when CBSN launched in 2014 they should have took notice as it was the first serious stab, in my opinion at a Headline News rival. They essentially gave up the game and allowed others to take over the space and completely dominate a place they solidly had locked in for DECADES. A place they completely created.
I mean really what are we doing? Come on!? The leadership upheaval has been so disastrous for CNN. My sticking point starts with the closure of Headline News. So the channel was deemed past its sell-by date, yet we have the launches of numerous streaming 24x7 rolling news channels in the US. When the entire infrastructure was already in place at CNN Center. I blame Zucker & Co. Maybe the channel needed to be shrunk, by it didnt need a huge set Studio7 blah blah blah. But i do think that they should have returned it to its roots. Get rid of the linear cable channel and go full streaming. Return it to its roots. Get rid of the double-head presentations and multiple presenters. Just old school Headline News.
I would have killed off all the crime programming , rename it CNN Headline News. (Dropped the HLN moniker, as its a completely tainted brand from all the rubbish "talking head" crime and political programmes. Ugh remember Glenn Beck) That junk was EXPENSIVE. Big sets and production teams behind it. It was a financial drain. Which resulted in more executive tinkering to make the channel profitable. Dump all that rubbish. I would have created a simple set (in the Atlanta newsroom) and created a new version of what made Headline News popular. Maybe a little less buttoned up but not the "news in the round" format that started all this mess. Thats when they ramped up the money on the channel and it was no longer profitable and the tinkering began to fix it.
So this lame halfhearted attempt feels lame actually. Jim Scuitto and Fredricka seems like a waste to use on this. They have some great anchors that dont need to be wasted in this way. Its basically CNNi with new added newsblocks. What is the eventual end goal of the channel? I cant see it being profitable. I wish them best but clearly they dont know what there are doing. Seemingly. WHich is sad and hard to watch.
Just yesterday everything started to branded breaking news Again....I hope hope hope Mark Thompson can serious-up the channel. The NY Times alongside PBS/NPR are the serious news orgs in the US. I dont expect Mark to recreate CNN into the BBC. Because thats just boring.... like paint to watch. CNN created this space but have ceded it to others. How can he fix it.? Tinkering isnt going to work. I still stand by what I said that NewsCentral was the start of something new and fresh. But its slowly being dismantled.
Whew ok. Long rant over. Sorry guys.