CNN+ Will Shut Down After Only One Month Of ServiceCNN+, which launched on March 29, will be
shut down on April 30.Chris Licht, CNN’s incoming president, called an all-hands meeting Thursday at noon to share the news with hundreds of staffers.
Andrew Morse, CNN’s chief digital officer who was in charge of CNN+, will step down after a
“transition period.”David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, was
bothered by the choice of former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar to launch CNN+ soon after the company completed its merger with Discovery and Discovery executives were
unsure of the streaming service’s strategy before the companies merged.
Zaslav has said he wants all of the company’s brands, which include HBO Max and Discovery+ to
live under one streaming service, and some CNN+ programing may eventually be available on that service.
