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“This video is unavailable right now.” With just hours to go before CNN pulls the plug on their streaming pipedream, CNN+, that’s the message a subscriber sees if they try to play anything; if they can find anything. Purging content a day early on Thursday, the CNN+ app is nothing but a shell, and their live content ended on Wednesday. Here’s what the final moments of CNN+ look like since you more than likely never bought a subscription like most Americans.
The last host to broadcast live before they killed the lights in the studio was Wolf Blitzer on the set off The Newscast. After reports on an American getting released from Russia, the war in Ukraine, and an investigation into the Trump organization, a crestfallen Blitzer appeared on the screen to give his final goodbye:
I’m Wolf Blitzer. Thanks very much for watching The Newscast on CNN+. Tonight’s show will be our last, for now. But you can always join me weekdays on CNN in The Situation Room, 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Our thanks to our entire special, wonderful team of journalists behind the scenes that helped build this show.
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