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.

  • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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…