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CNN+ at least launched with a bang a few years ago. The Murdochs: Empire of Influence and Land of the Giants: Titans of Tech were two great shows that I was never able to watch on CNN+ as you couldn't subscribe as an Australian and it was damn near impossible to do it with a VPN or whatever. And I can't subscribe to CNN's paywalled news either as an Australian. I doubt this new expanded CNN offering will be able to be subscribed to by Australians.

I don't care for CNN's linear live feed much apart from during US elections.

CNN, despite being available in Australia on Foxtel as an International feed if I'm not mistaken just does not seem to cater to Australians in other ways. If I hit a CNN paywalled article I just use the archive dot today trick to get around it. And I found The Murdochs: Empire of Influence and Land of the Giants: Titans of Tech on the high seas. Their Decades series is great though but it's hard to watch in Australia legally.

Like you say Dan what is the draw to this new CNN streaming service and All Access offering? If CNN+ was a failure with at least some semblance of a launch with a bang of an offering how is this gonna be anything but an epic fail?

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