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.
Both are now owned by Trump defender David Zaslav, the same guy who decided to rename HBO Max to Max. He has a history of reworking networks. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-zaslav-cnn-chris-licht-warner-discovery-1235634424/
Add HBO and CNN to the enshittification list.
Yep. Zaslav is a real piece of shit. He was also behind cancelling Batgirl and Scoob before they were released and taking a bunch of animated shows off of Max but not making them available anywhere else.
CNN has been shit for well over a decade now.
CNN is not relevant to me or my generation. It is a rage bait channel for boomers. Nothing productive is ever discussed on there. It is a giant circle jerk about Trump’s latest outrage. They beat every topic to absolute death. I’m sorry, I have other things to do besides watch a bunch of mannequins find ways to fill 12 hours of air time from a 2 minute news clip.
If you start interrupting my escape from the daily news cycle with useless breaking news alerts, not only will I kill you, I’ll also cancel my subscription to Max.
i wish they had a plan that only had hbo content, most of the time the other stuff just gets in the way and is annoying to scroll past. maybe they could call it “hbo max”
HBO used to be my favorite streaming service, I loved it. Now it’s full of reality tv crap. RIP.
That’s why they preemptively dropped “HBO” from the old “HBO Max” moniker.
Among all the other bullshit they pulled, the CEO bragged upon purchase of choking the service with cheap to produce reality show crap.
I had HBO in some form for decades, since I was a kid. They were the best and among the last prestige content creators. I dropped HBOs corpse last year over it. Fuck this late stage capitalism race to the bottom.
Also, if somehow all the shit they pulled upon acquisition wasn’t enough to stop paying them 160 annually a year ago, this would have been.
I want general grants to be given to small time production teams, even if some of the teams are teenagers. I always think of all the great stories we are missing, just because people were skipped over.
A good story can hold its own weight and doesn’t need a huge FX budget or popular actors.
“I want general grants to be given to small time production teams”
That’s funny. We don’t help the little guy here in the US. We funnel everything to the Fortune 1000 and pray for rain.
Anything less would make us dirty commies or something.
As a reminder, CNN betrayed Americans way back in the early 1990s by selling the first Bush War, and hasn’t gotten better since.
If I get a notification that interrupts what I am watching on HBO Max I will never use it again
Motherfuckers, I don’t even watch CNN. What the fuck is going on today? Sony raising PS plus prices to ridiculous levels and now this. Fuck CNN. Fuck MAX!
I hadn’t seen the PS+ increase before this and just now looked it up.
Like…seriously?? $80 for the base tier? And $160 for the top one?
There’s nothing extra being provided. The only reason I’ve bothered to keep it is for the 2 games each month since I don’t really online play that much anymore.
Easiest answer is to be your own consumer
RSS feeds exist already.
This bullshit is going to interrupt me during my 14th rewatch of Entourage?
Well, I sure as shit won’t be subscribing.
Something that perhaps I missed in the article is if CNN Max will be a new app or will the use the existing Max app? If it’s the latter then I hope we can disable it.
It’s the latter.
