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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks
Los Angeles TimesBefore One America News Network host Dan Ball finished an interview with guest Jim Jordan this past week, he asked the Ohio Republican congressman for a favor.
Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us, said Ball, whose Real America airs nightly on the right-wing cable channel. OAN would love to continue broadcasting on that platform and we know for a fact it is all political behind the scenes on why theyre doing that to us.
Earlier in the week, Ball solicited viewers to send him dirt on William E. Kennard, chairman of of the board at DirecTV parent AT&T, including any evidence of marital infidelity. OANs 80-year-old founder, tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, also went on camera to plead with viewers to ask other cable and satellite providers in their areas to add the channel to their lineups.
The desperate calls for help which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet follow DirecTVs Jan. 15 announcement that it will drop San Diego-based OAN from its service in April. DirecTV, which AT&T spun off last summer, accounts for nearly half of the 35 million homes that can receive OAN on cable or satellite TV. The channel is not broadly distributed enough to be measured by Nielsen.
The loss of DirecTV will deprive the channel of its major source of revenue and casts doubt on the future of the operation, where President Bidens administration is called a regime and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic are described as hysteria. OAN correspondents have promoted efforts to audit the vote counts in the 2020 election.
Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us, said Ball, whose Real America airs nightly on the right-wing cable channel. OAN would love to continue broadcasting on that platform and we know for a fact it is all political behind the scenes on why theyre doing that to us.
Earlier in the week, Ball solicited viewers to send him dirt on William E. Kennard, chairman of of the board at DirecTV parent AT&T, including any evidence of marital infidelity. OANs 80-year-old founder, tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, also went on camera to plead with viewers to ask other cable and satellite providers in their areas to add the channel to their lineups.
The desperate calls for help which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet follow DirecTVs Jan. 15 announcement that it will drop San Diego-based OAN from its service in April. DirecTV, which AT&T spun off last summer, accounts for nearly half of the 35 million homes that can receive OAN on cable or satellite TV. The channel is not broadly distributed enough to be measured by Nielsen.
The loss of DirecTV will deprive the channel of its major source of revenue and casts doubt on the future of the operation, where President Bidens administration is called a regime and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic are described as hysteria. OAN correspondents have promoted efforts to audit the vote counts in the 2020 election.
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Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2022
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Tickle
(2,520 posts)1. Now we will
see just how popular or unpopular OAN is.
hlthe2b
(102,267 posts)2. For all my intense disdain for Comcast--at least they NEVER carried it. So, that absolves a bit
of my conflict in continuing to do business with a company that I have so come to detest.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. The trend could be our friend
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)4. Excellent, cut their cable off!