Had an interesting conversation with my daughter (who works for Discovery) regarding a recent Town Hall meeting for the new Warner/Discovery team.

The town hall meeting was held after the merger was finalized, and was hosted by Oprah Winfrey, who posed questions to David Zaslav (he previously was the CEO of Discovery), but is now the CEO for the combined companies.

My daughter has been on several Town Hall meetings hosted by Zaslav, but this was the first one for the combined operations. Normally erudite and quite affable, he was more straight to the point and deliberate. He said the company now has a boat-load of debt, and that business units have to be profitable. One thing I didn't realize, while both are Media companies, their businesses are polar opposites. Warner owns and operates film production operations, Discovery markets reality series (which don't require large budgets).

I didn't get into my opinions about CNN+, but she was adamant that it has to be profitable given the structure she's used to at Discovery.

ToddyHill said:

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Had an interesting conversation with my daughter (who works for Discovery) regarding a recent Town Hall meeting for the new Warner/Discovery team.

The town hall meeting was held after the merger was finalized, and was hosted by Oprah Winfrey, who posed questions to David Zaslav (he previously was the CEO of Discovery), but is now the CEO for the combined companies.

My daughter has been on several Town Hall meetings hosted by Zaslav, but this was the first one for the combined operations. Normally erudite and quite affable, he was more straight to the point and deliberate. He said the company now has a boat-load of debt, and that business units have to be profitable. One thing I didn't realize, while both are Media companies, their businesses are polar opposites. Warner owns and operates film production operations, Discovery markets reality series (which don't require large budgets).

I didn't get into my opinions about CNN+, but she was adamant that it has to be profitable given the structure she's used to at Discovery.

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I imagine people got to watch it for a chance at profitability, first.

Just keeps getting better & better
• Netflix shares crashing
• CNN+ shutting down after 1 month
• Spotify removes Obama podcast
• Disney stripped of special governing powers
• Masks ruled unlawful on public transportation
• Elon Musk secures funding for Twitter takeover

— conspiracybot (@conspiracyb0t) April 22, 2022

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After investing hundreds of millions of dollars CNN finally unveiled its new satire site CNN+. Unfortunately, only 3 weeks later CNN+ has been canceledprematurely ending what was certain to be one of the funniest sites ever made. This sort of cancel culture censorship has been targeting comedians for too long, and it must stop.

This is why The Babylon Bee has decided to formally take a stand beside our fellow satire site, CNN+. We too know exactly what it feels like to be suddenly canceled for the simple crime of bringing laughter to the world. When we heard CNN+ wasn't being canceled for another sex scandal we were shocked, but once we heard that comedy was blatantly being censored again we were outraged.

"Satire writers have to stick together," said The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon. "That's why we are calling for CNN+ to be reinstated immediately. We hereby announce that CNN+ has our full support and we are willing to do whatever is necessary to restore their comedy streaming service. It just goes to showno matter how wacky and unbelievable your fake news articles are, there are always people who want to shut that down."

Sources claim that only 10,000 people were willing to watch CNN+, but we believe those 10,000 deserve to be able to continue to laugh at CNN's delightful brand of comedy.

So we invite you to stand with us and refuse to let comedy be silenced. If you ever want to see hilarious skits or articles about how good of a job Biden is doing, or how competent and relatable Kamala isthen subscribe to The Babylon Bee and help us fight for CNN+ today!

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Brian Stelter is just.... a dork.

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Warner Bros. Discovery decided to pull the plug on CNN+ less than a month after the costly streaming service was launched, sparking widespread ridicule and confusion among critics and insiders, but one CNN+ host insisted it may have been a success.

"I defy you to find any reasonable person who ever believed that viewers would pay extra money for the dregs of CNN when it was competing for their wallets with Netflix and Disney Plus," a former CNN producer told Fox News Digital. "Do you want to watch 'The Mandalorian' or extra Brian Stelter?"

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"It's too early to know if this product, if this service was a success or a failure," Stelter desperately tried to rationalize the implosion of CNN+. And he chided the "haters." pic.twitter.com/vCFR3Q7dT4

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 22, 2022

What is HBO Max?

ChrisTAMU said:

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Hate to see it

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I don't you're being totally truthful when you say this.

aggiehawg said:

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What is HBO Max?

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HBO's streaming platform. The best one there is imo. Tons of classic movies too with their TCM collection.

Stelter is such a doofus joke of a character. Are there actually live humans who take him seriously about anything?

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Stelter is such a doofus joke of a character. Are there actually live humans who take him seriously about anything?

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How did he ever get on air? Talk about a face for radio and no discernable talent whatsoever...dude must have incriminating photos of some big time higher ups.

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Now you know how the Keystone XL Pipeline workers feel. https://t.co/HBBnRPDIOC

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 21, 2022

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Learn to code

Stelter has the roundest head i think I've ever seen. It's perfectly symmetrical and round.

If CNN+ had pronouns they’d be was/were.

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) April 23, 2022

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Stelter has the roundest head i think I've ever seen. It's perfectly symmetrical and round.

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He is basically a talking thumb.