said by germ:It's funny you mention money because I doubt this channel will be too profitable. They hired 900 people and opened 12 bureaus in the US and have 16 investigative journalists(CNN recently shut down their investigative team). All of this for a channel that is only available in SD and is also the same channel that was previously home to a failed news channel(Current TV).
If they didn't think it was going to profitable, they wouldn't have done it.
Conversely, if they launched a channel with the expectation that it would be unprofitable, I'd have to ask what their ulterior motive in launching it was.