Posted on 01/14/2022 6:58:32 PM PST by aimhigh
One of the nation’s biggest satellite broadcasters, DirecTV, plans to drop carriage of the fringe right-wing cable outlet One America News, several months after a Reuters report revealed that AT&T, one of DirecTV’s owners, was responsible for a large part of the media outlet’s overall revenue.
OAN is owned by Herring Networks, founded by the entrepreneur Robert Herring Sr.
“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” DirecTV said in a statement. A spokesman would not comment on a report from Bloomberg News Friday evening that said DirecTV’s current carriage contract was set to lapse in April. OAN executives could not be reached for immediate comment.
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Our TV is on OANN. The Lefty stations don’t come into our house PERIOD.
If ATT Uverse cancels OAN I will cancel ATT and move to Xfinity or another provider that carries the network.
More and more people are rediscovering antennas for live TV as well...the forgotten “dinosaur” technology. Add on a streaming box to go along the antenna broadcasts you don’t need cable.
OANN was $4.95/month, not free, on Roku when I had it.
KLOWDTV.com app has everything OANN, Infowars and more. Free or pay tv - both great!
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Thanks for posting. It’s about the only tv I watch and only sometime. Warroom and LS6B are informative and funny.
Xfinity and Comcast do not have OAN. I will still cancel ATT Uverse if thye drop AON and or NewsMax. Period......... Enough of this woke bullshit. CNN and MSNBC are lying crap leftwing DNC propaganda destroying the fabric four nation. Pedophile enabling CNN should be banned by the FCC.......
CNN is a cable network, they have no FCC license to revoke. Cable and satellite and streaming services are outside of the FCC’s domain.
ATT still owns CNN don’t they? CNN should have been banned for their lying crap years ago. What a travesty for them to drop AON and enable CNN!
“Skystream box $125 one time purchase. Then a real-debrid account $3/m or $18 for 6 months we watch whatever we want when we want. Even movies in theaters. Best decision ever.”
Huh. Gotta check them out. Do they have Fox news, OAN?
I used DirecTV at one time. Don’t plan to go back, especially after AT&T sucked it up. It’s struggling now.
If true, I’m gone.
Dropped DirecTV in June 2020.
What is Roku?
Once old Musk gets his satellites in place that will kill off Dish and Direct Sat TV...Plus they each are down to their last satellites once they die no replacements are in pipeline...
Following on the heels of the demand from the White House to start blocking content against the interests of the Biden administration, DirecTV the satellite television communication company now part of the AT&T network, has announced their decision to drop the One America News Network (OANN) channel because OAN is perceived to be supportive of Donald Trump.
(Bloomberg) – DirecTV, one of the largest U.S. pay-TV providers, plans to drop One America News Network, dealing a major blow to the conservative channel that’s been criticized for spreading misinformation and had a loyal fan in former President Donald Trump.
The satellite-TV provider has notified OAN’s owner, Herring Networks Inc., that it plans to stop carrying the company’s two channels when their contract expires. Herring Networks also owns AWE, a lifestyle channel that stands for “A Wealth of Entertainment.”
“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” the company said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg News.
DirecTV’s contract with Herring Networks expires in early April, according to a person familiar with the matter. Herring Networks didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. (read more)
Given the fact that Joe Biden only holds support of somewhere around 30% of the country, this move by AT&T/DirecTV is quite remarkable.
One would think that someone in the corporate boardroom, perhaps someone associated with the best business decision, would give pause to any consideration of kowtowing to the demands of cancel culture.
Alas, it seems that voice was not present, or at least insignificant to the objectives of the corporate decisionmakers.
Any corporation making politics the central point of their business intent is automatically reducing the potential audience by half. There must be a strongly declining business model for the satellite broadcasting industry as a whole in order to make such a decision.
Perhaps the subscription-based entertainment and news alternatives have eroded the baseline for the TV business. I genuinely do not know. However, on its face, this type of a corporate decision seems like financial suicide.
Even DirecTV customers who may not watch OAN, yet retain some reasonable disposition to see a slippery slope as it becomes evident, are likely to view this decision negatively.
Regardless of the internal or background conversation, one thing is certain, DirecTV will lose more customers than it will gain. That is just a predictable outcome whenever you make political affiliation a litmus for a product.
Dish now has ONA. Bannon twice a day live.
Everything and anything. Anyway if you just want free TV from your computer you can go to https://ustv247.tv and watch live stuff or for OAN directly https://ustv247.tv/one-america-news-network
Almost as boneheaded as starting a conservative news network that is dependent on leftist media companies for its survival.
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