> By the time the service was shut down, CNN+ had garnered around 150,000 subscriptions in a little over two weeks from launch.

This is baffling. Regular CNN has ~540,000 daily viewers, with less than 130,000 of those being younger than 54 years old [1]. It is just inconceivable in my mind that about a third of this largely geriatric audience would sign up for CNN+ in two weeks, AND that somehow they thought this was too few people.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/02/21/cnns-rat...