https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/business/media/cnn-streaming-service.html

After CNN+ failed in spring 2022, CNN will try again with a streaming subscription service this fall. According to The New York Times' Benjamin Mullin, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told staffers "the new service would be tied to the company’s recently introduced subscription product, which gives paying members unlimited access to articles posted on CNN.com. CNN is also taking pains to avoid alienating its most valuable customers: traditional cable distributors. Those customers will have free access to CNN’s streaming service."

CNN’s “All Access” streaming service will cost $6.99 per month, or $69.99 per year (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cnn-streaming-service-details-subscription-price-date-1236402837/)

Subscribers who sign up by January 5, 2026 can get the annual plan for a special introductory price of $41.99 for the first year. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, “CNN launched a digital paywall a year ago for much of its digital content, and that paywall is now being branded as the Basic tier. Joining it will be a new All Access tier, priced at $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year. The company is launching a promotion at launch, offering one year for $41.99.” The new premium tier will include “a selection of CNN’s live US and International programming,” as well as access to the full library of CNN Originals and documentary programming. There will also be exclusive live and on-demand programming.

CNN’s new All Access streaming service launches (https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnn-all-access-subscription-streamer-launch-mobile-viewers-1236562472/)

The new service costing $7 a month “will have more features for an audience that wants news first and a connection to traditional TV a distant second,” says Variety’s Brian Steinberg. “To be sure, the company’s new ‘All Access’ streaming outlet features its traditional cable programming — nearly all of the live hours of the linear grid between 5 a.m. and midnight, with a few exceptions. But its main goal is to bring viewers into the CNN fold who are interested in the latest news on trending topics, and not necessarily on time slots or talent.”