
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has launched a new free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel that offers documentaries and docuseries from its cable news brand CNN.
The channel, called CNN Originals, debuted this week on Plex and Amazon platforms Prime Video, Fire TV and Freevee. A CNN spokesperson said additional platforms will offer CNN Originals over the next few days, but didn’t reveal which FAST platforms will distribute it.
CNN Originals first debuted as an audio-only channel on SiriusXM satellite and streaming radio. It is the third FAST channel to be offered by the cable network, which also operates CNN Headlines in the United States and CNN FAST in other markets.
Titles available on CNN Originals include “Amanpour: Sex and Love Around the World,” “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” “This is Life with Lisa Ling,” “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell,” “Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History” and “The Wonder List with Bill Weird.”
“We’re very happy to expand CNN’s FAST portfolio with the new compelling offering of a CNN Originals channel, bringing some of the very best, award-winning long-form content in the business to audiences in this format,” said Phil Nelson, the Executive Vice President of CNN International Commercial.
Nelson said additional CNN-branded channels will launch in the coming months.