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July 18, 2011 07:41 pm GMT

CNN Joins TV Everywhere, Puts Live News Behind The Log-In Wall

CNN is now broadcasting live 24 hours a day online and on mobile apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The live streams are available for both CNN proper and Headline News, but good luck finding them. They are definitely not front and center. If you go to CNN's main video page, instead of being presented with a live video stream of breaking news, it shows you canned videos from its "Collections." These seem to be mostly human interest clips like Anderson Cooper answering viewer questions while thoughtfully looking at his iPad or a segment on the best BBQ in Texas. To watch live video, you can click on the "Live" tab. And this does take you to some live options, including live feeds which CNN has been offering for a while. But to get the new, fully-produced, 24-hour live stream, you have to "unlock to watch." Click on that and then it asks for your cable company user ID from Verizon, Cox, Comcast, and the like. If you are like me, you will probably have to dig that out. Go ahead, we'll wait.

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