With the information that CNN+ will shut down coming lower than a month after the streaming platform's launch, many on social media started to query what former longtime Fox Information anchor Chris Wallace will do subsequent.

Wallace, 74, who hosted Fox Information Sunday from 2003 by means of 2021, introduced on air that he could be leaving Fox Information in December, with the information breaking shortly later that he would be part of CNN's information streaming platform, CNN+. Wallace then instructed The New York Instances in March that staying at Fox Information had turn into "unsustainable" after hosts and personalities there started to query the truth that President Joe Biden gained the 2020 election.

On Thursday, CNN introduced CNN+ will stop operations April 30 after solely launching on March 29. Wallace's identify shortly grew to become a high trending subject on Twitter, as many questioned what the high-profile journalist would do subsequent.

"CNN+ is already shutting down, does that imply Chris Wallace is unemployed?" writer Nick Adams tweeted.

"Sooooo, I am not doing New Years Eve on CNN+ with Chris Wallace?" comic Kathy Griffin quipped in a tweet. Griffin was infamously fired by CNN from co-hosting the community's New Yr's Eve protection after she did a photograph shoot wherein she held up a pretend severed head representing former President Donald Trump in 2017.

"Chris Wallace ditched his entire profession for this," Caleb Hull, the previous director of content material for right-leaning communications company Focused Victory, wrote in a Twitter publish.

"If you happen to assume you are having a nasty day, think about being Chris Wallace who left Fox to be the star of CNN+ and CNN+ instantly failed," comic and radio host Tim Younger wrote in a Twitter publish.

"I am positive Chris Wallace may have a beautiful podcast," Noam Blum, co-host of the Formidable Crossover Try podcast, tweeted.

Many others cynically wrote that Wallace wants a "wellness examine." A number of Trump supporters cheered the information, mocking CNN in addition to Wallace.

The choice to shutter CNN+ got here by new administration, after CNN merged with Warner Bros. Discovery this month. Beforehand, the launch of the streaming service had been hyped as a major growth for CNN. Nonetheless, studies of low subscriber development surfaced in mid-April, drawing hypothesis about the way forward for CNN+.

"In a posh streaming market, shoppers need simplicity and an all-in service which gives a greater expertise and extra worth than stand-alone choices, and, for the corporate, a extra sustainable enterprise mannequin to drive our future investments in nice journalism and storytelling," Discovery's streaming boss JB Perrette stated in a press release, CNN reported.

"We have now very thrilling alternatives forward within the streaming area and CNN, one of many world's premier reputational belongings, will play an essential position there," Perrette stated. Staffers of CNN+ have been notified of the closure on Thursday and have been reportedly instructed that all of them could be paid and obtain advantages for the subsequent 90 days. Those that will not be absorbed into different CNN jobs will obtain six months of severance.

Wallace had already dropped 14 episodes because the launch of his present— titled Who's Speaking to Chris Wallace?— and CNN+ on the finish of March. The veteran journalist had interviewed a spread of people, together with filmmaker James Cameron, actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, Valerie Biden Owens (the sister of President Joe Biden), former Disney CEO Bob Iger, astronaut Scott Kelly, and White Home press secretary Jen Psaki.

"Eighteen years in the past, the bosses right here at Fox promised me they might by no means intrude with a visitor I booked or a query I requested. And so they saved that promise. I've been free to report back to the very best of my capability, to cowl the tales I believe are essential, to carry our nation's leaders to account," Wallace stated throughout his December 12 Fox Information Sunday program earlier than his departure.

The journalist introduced throughout that present he would depart Fox Information, saying that he needed to "strive one thing new, to transcend politics." Wallace added that he was "prepared for a brand new journey."

In March, he criticized what Fox Information had turn into within the wake of Trump's 2020 loss to Biden.

"I am effective with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion," Wallace instructed The New York Instances. "However when folks begin to query the reality—Who gained the 2020 election? Was January 6 an riot?—I discovered that unsustainable. I spent a number of 2021 seeking to see if there was a special place for me to do my job."

Wallace was well-known on Fox Information for pushing again in opposition to Republicans and Democrats alike, asking arduous questions and urgent lawmakers and officers once they tried to deflect or pivot. He drew Trump's ire on a number of events, with the previous president attacking him in a June 2021 assertion.

"Why does Fox Information maintain Chris Wallace? His scores are horrible, he is 'virtually' Radical Left...." the previous president stated on the time.

Trump additionally joined these panning the information of CNN+ shutting down on Thursday, describing Wallace as "low-rated," saying he "lacked the expertise and no matter else is important to be a star."

Previous to becoming a member of Fox Information, Wallace labored at ABC Information from 1989-2003 and at NBC Information from 1982-1988.

Newsweek reached out to CNN and Wallace for remark.

Chris Wallace with Anderson Cooper
Former Fox Information Sunday anchor Chris Wallace and Anderson Cooper attend the CNN+ Launch Occasion at PEAK NYC Hudson Yards on March 28 in New York Metropolis. Noam Galai/Getty Photos CNN+

Replace 4/21/22, 3:37 p.m. ET: This story was up to date with extra data and background.