CNN plans to launch a streaming service next year, betting that loyal viewers and cord-cutters will pay for extra programming from the cable news channel.<\/p>\n
CNN+, as the service will called, will debut in the first quarter of 2022 and have 8 to 12 hours of live, daily programming as well as longer-form documentary-style shows, like \u201cAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown\u201d and \u201cStanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Subscribers will be able to \u201cconnect directly with anchors and experts in real time conversations about the issues that matter most to them,\u201d CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc.\u2019s WarnerMedia, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It will include some of CNN\u2019s current talent \u201cas well as several new faces,\u201d CNN said.<\/p>\n
It did not disclose the price of the new service. The cost will be announced later, along with programming specifics, CNN reported on its website on Monday.<\/p>\n
The company is hiring hundreds of people and developing dozens of programs in preparation, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Like other cable channels, CNN is trying to build a direct-to-consumer business that reaches the growing legion of consumers who have abandoned cable-TV for streaming services.<\/p>\n
But CNN needs to create new programming for its streaming service – it can\u2019t offer the same programming as it does on its cable channel without jeopardizing its lucrative contracts with pay-TV providers like Comcast Corp. or DirecTV.<\/p>\n
CNN+ will \u201cprovide a new, additive experience that complements the core CNN\u201d networks and online platforms, the network said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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