DirecTV drops Newsmax

[riversedge]

Source: the hill




by Dominick Mastrangelo - 01/25/23 11:43 AM ET


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DirecTV’s current contract with Newsmax expired on Tuesday evening, after the television provider said it was unwilling to agree to carrier fees proposed by the conservative channel.

“On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately Newsmax’s demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base,”....................................
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Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, however, alleged the decision is based in political bias against conservative news organizations.

“This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax,” Ruddy said. “The most extreme liberal channels, even with tiny ratings, get fees from AT&T’s DirecTV, but Newsmax and OAN need to be deplatformed.”

Last week, a group of House Republicans led by Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) sent a letter to DirecTV threatening to investigate its decision to allow the contract to expire. ................

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3829905-directv-drops-newsmax/

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House Repugs have nothing better to do---such as actual governing!! So they threaten another INVESTIGATION!!

But on second thought, i do not like their governing anyway!

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[hlthe2b]

1. Now do Fox

[onenote]

3. Not going to happen. Fox has viewers, unlike Newsman and OAN

This was a business decision, plain and simple. Not a political one.

[Warpy]

6. Apparently Pox is not as much of a money loser

and Murdoch has deep enough pockets to make up any shortfall. Pox is never going to go away, not unless the family jet crashes with both Rupert and son Lachlan aboard. I doubt the rest of the clan will want to support the channel, they'd rather stick to the part of the empire that actually generate income. Rupert and Lachlan are the ones with ideological bugs up their butts.

Maybe one of Putin's oligarch buddies will take it off their hands. It's aready Russian propganda, it would be a great fit.

[Jerry2144]

7. I think pro sports

On the non -“news” network helps fund their propaganda station. If they lose the price shop ports contracts, it will help defund their propaganda. Not sure the split, but it is big money in advertising

[Warpy]

9. I notice Rupert tried to pull a fast one

and lump everything in under The News Corp. He must've gotten some really bad news about that because he's already withdrawn the proposal.

[onenote]

22. News Corp is the print business. Fox Corp. is the video business

Fox Corp includes both the sports channels and the news channels. And is a much stronger asset than News Corp.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Fox has football, which subsidizes the news.

[Jerry2144]

12. Yes

Fewer words. Same thoughts

[onenote]

23. Not really. On a net basis, News is more profitable since its costs are much lower.

Fox doesn't pay billions and billions to run a news channel, like it does to run sports channels.

And the cable channels are far more profitable than Fox's broadcast television operations.

[ificandream]

15. Yes, please do!

[TomDaisy]

2. tots and pears

[Meadowoak]

4. Womp womp.

[ZonkerHarris]

5. They thought they could get paid like Fox news but FN has a huge viewership and leverage while

OAN and Newsmax have none.
Die in the marketplace you fuckers

[GGoss]

8. Buh Bye, Max !!!

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. I would rather watch Max Headroom

than right wing blather channels.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. "This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax,"

"Discrimination"? "Censorship"? They are a "private business" and do what they want, isn't that right GOP?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

18. The hypocrisy on almost everything should make their heads explode shouldn't it?

[republianmushroom]

14. like it

[Shermann]

16. Dish Network still has it

I've never watched it. It is on most of their packages, but I just dropped to the cheapest one which doesn't have it.

[samsingh]

17. republican big government harassing private enterprise

[rpannier]

19. but Newsmax and OAN need to be deplatformed

Yes they do
I agree with Ruddy

[samsingh]

20. more conservative whinning like little babies and cowards

entitled idiots and traitors.

[GB_RN]

21. Buh-bye!

See ya, SpewsMax. Don’t let the door hit ya…but if it does, I’ll laugh at that, too.

[oasis]

24. Less poison. Nt

[tonekat]

25. Excellent!

Now I have to write Xfinity to ask them to remove that waste of bandwidth.

[MissMillie]

27. You may not need to

As I indicated in my reply, NewsMax was looking for more money and didn't get it. So they lost revenue from Direct TV by being greedy.

To make up for it, you can bet they'll be looking for even more money from other cable/dish providers. It's quite possible those providers will say "no" too.

[MissMillie]

26. So while the RW extremists cry "foul" and "cancel culture" and "sensorship"...

This is free-market capitalism. RWers are supposed to be big fans of that.

NewsMax asked for more money. Direct TV said "no."

It's really not any more sinister than that. Direct TV will fill that airtime with content that is less expensive.