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DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network, significantly shrinking the reach of the right-wing TV channel friendly to Donald Trump and widely criticized for spreading misinformation including the former president’s false claim that he won the 2020 election.

The satellite television provider said Saturday that it has informed OAN’s owner, Herring Networks. Inc., that it will no longer carry its two channels when their contract expires. The other, AWA, is a lifestyle channel. The decision is believed to remove OAN from millions of homes.

"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 spokesman said in an emailed statement.

The spokesman would not say when the contract expires, but Bloomberg News, which first reported development on Friday, said it expires in early April.

San Diego-based Herring Networks did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Bloomberg said DirecTV is OAN’s largest distributor. On its website, Herring says OAN is carried by Verizon FiOS and several smaller TV providers. It can also be streamed online. Major cable companies including Comcast and Charter do not carry OAN.

AT&T has a 70% stake in DirecTV, which has carried OAN since April 2017 after AT&T settled a lawsuit demanding it carry the channels. Herring Networks had claimed AT&T reneged on an agreement to carry OAN on DirecTV, which it acquired in 2015.

OAN became a darling of Trump during his presidency and has continued to report his claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him – a claim directly contradicted by the facts and exhaustive reporting. It has carried Trump live in post-presidency appearances, its reporters declining to challenge his contrafactual claims.

Trump came to OAN’s defense at a rally Saturday night in Arizona, praising the network — "I love One America News," he said — and threatening to call for a boycott of DirecTV’s parent company, AT&T.

"This is horrible," Trump said. "This is a great network. These are great people. I watch it all the time and you really get the truth. And they want to cancel them now because of politics — for purely political reasons. It’s a disgrace what’s going on."

He added, "But I don’t think that people are gonna stand for it" and, noting the company’s founders were in the crowd, said, "Maybe what we should do is not use AT&T."

Dominion Voting Systems sued OAN and other right-wing broadcasters in August, claiming they damaged the election technology company's business by trumpeting lies spread by Trump adherents that it was complicit in an election-rigging conspiracy.

DirecTV does not provide a breakdown of its subscribers, but AT&T reported that as of the second quarter of 2021 it had a total of 15.4 million paid premium TV subscribers including DirecTV, AT&T U-verse wireline video and the online service AT&T TV.




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OAN became a darling of Trump during his presidency and has continued to report his claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him – a claim directly contradicted by the facts and exhaustive reporting.


A blatant lie. One could argue certainly over whether or not the election was stolen, but there is no question whatsoever that the election was rigged to favor the democrats. That is a fact that cannot be refuted. Shame on Fox Business.

Anyway, that'll be a real blow when DirectTV drops OAN. Something tells me it has more to do with partisan politics than anything else, but perhaps that's just cynic inside of me talking.


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OAN became a darling of Trump during his presidency and has continued to report his claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him – a claim directly contradicted by the facts and exhaustive reporting.


A blatant lie. One could argue certainly over whether or not the election was stolen, but there is no question whatsoever that the election was rigged to favor the democrats. That is a fact that cannot be refuted. Shame on Fox Business.

Anyway, that'll be a real blow when DirectTV drops OAN. Something tells me it has more to do with partisan politics than anything else, but perhaps that's just cynic inside of me talking.


My thoughts exactly. On both points.

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I sure hope Comcast doesn't get the same idea and drops Newsmax TV, I like that one and it's the only TV news outlet I even bother watching anymore.

I tried to stream OAN but the app that it uses is pretty flaky for me and I kind of gave up on them.


 
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I sure hope Comcast doesn't get the same idea and drops Newsmax TV, I like that one and it's the only TV news outlet I even bother watching anymore.


DirecTV still seems to have Newsmax.
 
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Most likely it's a negotiating ploy, DTV wants more money, OAN doesn't want to pay, DTV says they are pulling the plug, OAN starts up social media backlash, call DTV, same ol same process.

Happens with ESPN, and other channels all the time with DTV, Cable whomever the provider may be when the service is successful it's a money thing.
 
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I suspect that it's more of a ratings thing. OAN kind of went down the crapper about a year ago. Their prime time hosts left for whatever reason and the rest of their programming I found less than stellar.

About the same time, Newsmax started doing really well...likely from all the folks wandering over from OAN.

I don't know that I'd read any more into it than that.


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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I suspect that it's more of a ratings thing. OAN kind of went down the crapper about a year ago. Their prime time hosts left for whatever reason and the rest of their programming I found less than stellar.

About the same time, Newsmax started doing really well...likely from all the folks wandering over from OAN.

I don't know that I'd read any more into it than that.


I agree. I hardly ever watch them now.
 
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I sure hope Comcast doesn't get the same idea and drops Newsmax TV, I like that one and it's the only TV news outlet I even bother watching anymore.

I tried to stream OAN but the app that it uses is pretty flaky for me and I kind of gave up on them.


We stream OAN on kloudTV have had no problems using them.


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OAN became a darling of Trump during his presidency and has continued to report his claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him – a claim directly contradicted by the facts and exhaustive reporting.


A blatant lie. One could argue certainly over whether or not the election was stolen, but there is no question whatsoever that the election was rigged to favor the democrats. That is a fact that cannot be refuted. Shame on Fox Business.

Anyway, that'll be a real blow when DirectTV drops OAN. Something tells me it has more to do with partisan politics than anything else, but perhaps that's just cynic inside of me talking.
Of course it’s partisan politics. Otherwise they are saying CNN/MSNBC never gets it wrong. Haha
 
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That was the final straw for us.
We dropped AT&T today for our TV viewing.
We are still stuck with them for our Cell Phones and internet.
AT&T did not even whimper when we canceled.
 
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