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  "id": 3069905,
  "title": "CNN Blames ‘Technical Issue’ Across Warner Bros. Discovery for Channel Going Dark",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/cnn-blames-technical-issue-across-warner-bros-discovery-for-channel",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-24T17:03:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cnn-streaming-technical-issues-channel-loss-1236841649/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "CNN’s channels went dark Monday across multiple distribution points, a problem the news network attributed to a “technical issue” at parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. “We are aware of a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery that resulted in losing CNN channels for a period of time today,” the news outlet’s PR team said in […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Deadline",
        "title": "CNN Says Outage Due To Technical Issue Across Warner Bros. Discovery",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/cnn-says-outage-due-to-technical-issue-across-warner-bros-discovery",
        "published": "2026-08-24T17:13:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}