CNN has tapped marketing professor Scott Galloway to host a show for its upcoming subscription streaming service, CNN+, set to debut in the first quarter of 2022.
Galloway’s show will focus on “the news and conversations where business and technology collide.” A professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Galloway is the host of the Prof G Show podcast and the co-host of the Pivot podcast. Galloway is an entrepreneur who founded companies including Prophet, Red Envelope, L2 and Section4, and recently authored the book Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity.
CNN said that Galloway’s show will be among the slate of original, live programming that will be available when CNN+ launches. CNN’s cable news rival Fox News launched its own subscription streaming service, Fox Nation, in 2018, and it features shows like Tucker Carlson Today and new episodes of Cops. MSNBC has its own streaming channel, The Choice from MSNBC, on the Peacock platform.
Other plans for CNN+ include a show anchored by Kasie Hunt, who recently joined the network after exiting NBC News this past summer. CNN also recently hired a team of executives for the service.
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Galloway is currently on the board of Panera and Ledger, and has served on the boards of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
I love Scott and his brand of novel tech views, but anchoring CNN+ feels like getting onboard the Titanic while knowing full well how that ends. Who is going to pay for this service? Unless it’s $1.99/month, I don’t understand the value proposition here.
Ugh…CNN+, yawn.
Nice work Scott – hope you are also advising on their strategy!
Great news. Scott’s podcasts are on my weekly “must listen to” list. I’ll have to add his new CNN+ show to my content list. One thing missing from the article (and Scott won’t mind if the omission is highlighted) is that he proudly attended UCLA as an undergrad. Go Bruins.
Do recruitment and programming announcements normally included mention of where the subject did their undergrad education?
Yes.