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DirecTV to drop far-right channel OAN from its service

U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV said on Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News (OAN) from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the popular news network.
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Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV said on Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News (OAN) from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the popular news network.

OAN, which rose to prominence amid the triumph and tumult of the administration of then-President Donald Trump, has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.

"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," a DirecTV spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

AT&T has a 70% stake in DirecTV, after last year spinning off the satellite service, now an independently managed company. The U.S. telecommunications company entered into a deal with Herring Networks Inc in 2017, which included OAN and a little-watched lifestyle channel, AWE. DirecTV began carrying the networks in April that year.

OAN and Herring Networks could not immediately be reached for comment outside business hours.

AT&T has been a crucial source of funds for OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, a Reuters investigation found last year. Ninety percent of OAN's revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.
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Will this spell the end for OAN?
 
ZiprHead said:
www.reuters.com

DirecTV to drop far-right channel OAN from its service

U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV said on Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News (OAN) from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the popular news network.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV said on Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News (OAN) from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the popular news network.

OAN, which rose to prominence amid the triumph and tumult of the administration of then-President Donald Trump, has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.

"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," a DirecTV spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

AT&T has a 70% stake in DirecTV, after last year spinning off the satellite service, now an independently managed company. The U.S. telecommunications company entered into a deal with Herring Networks Inc in 2017, which included OAN and a little-watched lifestyle channel, AWE. DirecTV began carrying the networks in April that year.

OAN and Herring Networks could not immediately be reached for comment outside business hours.

AT&T has been a crucial source of funds for OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, a Reuters investigation found last year. Ninety percent of OAN's revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.
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Will this spell the end for OAN?
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I never watched it...
 
Almost no one has. But OANN gets almost all its revenue from its agreement with AT&T and DirecTV.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Yeah, the shocking thing is AT&T essentially raised this beast.
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What makes you think that after Ma Bell got got, that AT&T wouldn't support something that diverts social concern with conspiracy bullshit and then directs them to dismantle regulatory frameworks with the fomented irrational distrust?
 
Jarhyn said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Yeah, the shocking thing is AT&T essentially raised this beast.
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What makes you think that after Ma Bell got got, that AT&T wouldn't support something that diverts social concern with conspiracy bullshit and then directs them to dismantle regulatory frameworks with the fomented irrational distrust?
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OAN isn't a right-wing biased news source. OAN is a hardcore propaganda media company supporting authoritarian right-wing rule. It would be a serious escalation. Fox News can handle the regulatory stuff, have for decades. OAN was solidly supporting an overthrow of the US Election, where as Fox News was pussyfooting the overthrow.
 
This is the kind of depraved shit they run.

 
So... hospital attack in Ukraine is faked, not by Ukraine to try and gain more support from other nations, but by Biden... to distract from inflation?

I'm uncertain how long it'd take me to make something like that up, and I'm pretty creative.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
So... hospital attack in Ukraine is faked, not by Ukraine to try and gain more support from other nations, but by Biden... to distract from inflation?

I'm uncertain how long it'd take me to make something like that up, and I'm pretty creative.
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There is a difference between creativity and the divorce from reality necessary to link such disparate far-flung events with a causal claim.
 
OAN is losing support so they are going full on for the Nazi viewer.

 
I'm just shocked that people are still paying for television. Especially now that it's not required to watch sports.
 
Gospel said:
I'm just shocked that people are still paying for television. Especially now that it's not required to watch sports.
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Man, shoulda saved that happy dancing gif of yours for this one.
 
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