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OAN facing financial life support as Verizon drops network
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | July 22, 2022 | Heather Hamilton

Posted on 07/22/2022 3:26:39 PM PDT by lowbridge

Verizon will drop One America News from its channel lineup, leaving the right-wing network without any major television carriers.

After failing to reach a contractual agreement, Verizon announced it would no longer contain the rights to OAN after July.

“Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business-as-usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers. These negotiations were focused on economics, as they always are, but OAN failed to agree to fair terms,” Verizon said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

“Our company has long advocated for providing customers with the ability to choose what content they want to watch,” Verizon added. “And our Fios TV platform offers a wide and diverse choice of programming options, including a la carte options, that strive to meet our millions of customers' various content needs and preferences.”

The announcement follows DirecTV’s decision to drop the network in April.

Once OAN is without Verizon, which was primarily responsible for its reported revenue of $550,000 per month from pay-TV carriage fees, the network will be left with Alaska-based General Communications Inc. as its only cable provider in the United States, in addition to lesser-known digital platforms Vifgo and KlowdTV.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; nevertrumpexaminer; oan; verizon
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1 posted on 07/22/2022 3:26:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Can’t have more than one side to choose from, right?

If cable providers allowed people to chose what they want things would be very different.


2 posted on 07/22/2022 3:31:33 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: lowbridge

Isn’t OAN available on Roku? For a price?


3 posted on 07/22/2022 3:32:04 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: logician2u

Yes, on its own app for about $6-$7 per month. Probably have to go up in this Brandon economy and after the Verizon cancel.


4 posted on 07/22/2022 3:34:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lowbridge

Great station. Watch only NewsMax now


5 posted on 07/22/2022 3:37:09 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: lowbridge

This has been coming for weeks now, and noted frequently on th news ribbon at the bottom of the screen, asking viwers to contact verizon and ask verison to keep OAN on their schedule.

I don’t know what the money issues were, but I think those were the real issues and they just couldn’t come to terms,

I wish the cable companies actually had a sort of tier pricing, based on the number the average number of sets tuning to any certain channel, with more popular channels paying more because the demand for their portion of the delivered channel spectrum is greater.

Then some lesser popular channels might still be available and would be paying more if their viewership rose.


6 posted on 07/22/2022 3:43:04 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: lowbridge

The Tipping Point hosted by Kara McKinney is my favorite show after Bannon’s Warroom. It is clear to me that the leftwing cabal (led by the Clinton/Obama/Biden axis of evil) is trying to crush alternative views (in this case, true news). OAN is still available on Pluto.tv.


7 posted on 07/22/2022 3:44:32 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: lowbridge

And in other news Verizon was down $3.21 or 6.7% in today’s trading.


8 posted on 07/22/2022 3:48:03 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lowbridge

In other TV news, “Live PD” is back on, on REELZ TV, under its new name, “On Patrol: Live”. The show premieres tonight at 9 Eastern, and has almost the same hosts. I don’t know which PDs are being followed, but it looks to be pretty much the same show as before.


9 posted on 07/22/2022 3:49:57 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: lowbridge

Put the fork in, they’re done.


10 posted on 07/22/2022 3:56:20 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: lowbridge

i stream it

why fund the cable companies?


11 posted on 07/22/2022 4:02:21 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: lowbridge

This same censorship of free speech cost direct tv my business in april pand now verizons sorry ass service will no longer irk me.


12 posted on 07/22/2022 4:02:59 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so me)
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To: lowbridge

Directv took them off and added two more sports channels I don’t watch.


13 posted on 07/22/2022 4:07:55 PM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: VanShuyten

REELZ TV? Any idea where that is carried. I have Directv.


14 posted on 07/22/2022 4:10:07 PM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: joshua c

After 30 years last year I finally cut off cable. I use Pluto for OAN, Blaze Live, Newsmax, America’s Voice and The First, all have pretty good programming.

As soon as I have a chance I’m going from Verizon to Patriot Mobile for my cell.


15 posted on 07/22/2022 4:21:20 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Newsmax, OAN, I’m not a not a fan.

Real Americas Voice rocks.

Free, on roku.


16 posted on 07/22/2022 4:36:42 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

Also online

https://americasvoice.news/

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17 posted on 07/22/2022 4:39:10 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: lowbridge

I just noticed they were gone from U-verse. Shows how much tv I watch.


18 posted on 07/22/2022 5:18:53 PM PDT by FLNittany
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OAN was an ATT experiment that went sideways on ATT.

ATT is complete she-it. ATT nursed the corrupt CNN for years.

Hopefully OAN will find/secure a decent revenue stream.


19 posted on 07/22/2022 5:21:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: lowbridge

Time for a new phone carrier.


20 posted on 07/22/2022 6:03:28 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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