CNN is beginning to slender down the launch particulars for its CNN+ streaming service. The online-only providing is now slated to debut this spring at a worth of $6 monthly. You’ll have a powerful incentive to enroll shortly, although — CNN will provide lifetime month-to-month subscriptions at 50 p.c off for anybody who indicators up throughout the first 4 weeks.

The firm additionally outlined how you will entry the service. A unified CNN app will present entry to CNN+ in addition to stay and on-demand content material for standard TV subscribers. This will encourage on a regular basis CNN customers to subscribe to CNN+, after all, however you additionally will not have to modify apps to view the content material you need.

CNN+ is banking on a mix of recognizable hosts and reveals to tug you in. Former Fox News host Chris Wallace will present stay each day information, as an example, whereas different hosts vary from CNN veterans (reminiscent of Anderson Cooper and Poppy Harlow) by to outdoors expertise like prepare dinner and author Alison Roman. You can anticipate some on-demand materials, together with the Big Tech-focused The Land of the Giants to again catalog releases like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

Whether or not the pricing is true, there’s little doubt CNN+ faces some competitors. There are direct rivals reminiscent of Fox Nation, however companies like NBCUniversal’s Peacock and Paramount+ combine stay information and sports activities with loads of on-demand leisure. The success of CNN+ is not assured, notably when subscription fatigue may make it more durable to justify one more outlay.