CNN’s new streaming service is terrible and on the verge of a total collapse.
It is being reported that CNN+ is averaging less than 10,000 users a day. To put things in perspective, there are below-average YouTube channels that have more daily users.
According to reports, Chris Wallace isn’t taking it well. The “daily meltdowns” have continued and now he’s ordering staffers to “count how many times a day his promo is playing.”
SOURCE: Chris Wallace is “having daily breakdowns” over the “miserable launch” of @CNNplus. Wants a “CNN show or is threatening to walk” they go on. “He is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing”
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) April 12, 2022
The man’s ego is so enlarged he can’t comprehend that people aren’t tuning in just to see him.
It was Wallace who was supposed to be the big draw to help the service get off the ground after leaving Fox. Now, it is being reported that Wallace is going full-blown diva. Since the streaming service is falling from the sky he is demanding Chris Cuomo’s time slot on the cable network.
Chris Wallace’s woes confirm the rumors we posted a couple of weeks ago that layoffs were expected because the stream service launch was poor.
Breaking: @CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up 130 @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 30, 2022
SOURCE @ Discovery: “@CNNplus is an overly ambitious ego project that doesn’t connect with the current reality at @CNN and has no chance of reaching Zucker’s vision. It will be scaled back significantly to align with the new mission for the news channel”
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) February 13, 2022
The news was what first caused Wallace to have “meltdowns.”
SOURCE: Chris Wallace is having “daily meltdowns” at @CNN / @CNNplus. / Remember, CNN+ was Zucker and girlfriend Allison Gollust’s “baby” and without them, the service is very much in flux. Something Wallace is not pleased with. (more to come)
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) February 16, 2022
SOURCE UPDATE: “He has threatened to quit 2x this week. And it’s just Tuesday” https://t.co/4BU3tGl5y5
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) February 23, 2022
What goes around eventually comes around.
