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Wicked Blue

(5,767 posts)
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 10:56 AM Feb 2022

RT must be banned from broadcasting in the US - here's a list of providers - UPDATE

Last edited Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:04 PM - Edit history (1)

I just contacted US Rep. David Trone, US Sen. Chris Van Hollen and US Sen. Benjamin Cardin, all Maryland Democrats, with the following message:

The European Union and Canada have just banned Russia Today from television there.
Can the U.S. do this too? I don't see why Russia Today, Sputnik and other Russian channels should be allowed to operate here while Russia has illegally invaded Ukraine.


This is a link to providers that show RT, including satellite and internet channels.

More providers at link.

Contact your provider if it's on this list and tell them to stop showing RT.


RT Cable and Satellite TV providers:

AGP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LLC

Buckeye CableSystem

Channel Master

Content Media Rights

DIRECTV

Dish Networks

NEXTV

ROKU

Spring City Cable

https://www.rt.com/where-to-watch/USA/

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RT must be banned from broadcasting in the US - here's a list of providers - UPDATE (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2022 OP
Also RadioSputnik! It's pure propaganda... NewDayOranges Feb 2022 #1
And RTVi Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #2
It's ridiculous. Every provider should be forced to register as a foreign agent. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #3
Yes. RT was forced to register in 2017. But those who tune in Hortensis Feb 2022 #18
Absolutely! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #4
In what sense are cable, satellite, and internet TV providers broadcasting? mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #5
providing? Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #6
I don't know, but "broadcasting" isn't it. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #7
Individual distributors Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #9
A boycott is one thing. A ban is something else altogether. NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #12
Hartmann had a show on RT during a time when Bernie voters were manipulated to vote against Hillary NightWatcher Feb 2022 #8
Not to mention Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #10
I still have a heart "fuck you" for Hartmann because of that. Happy Hoosier Feb 2022 #13
Every tool played their part. Hartmann's was to push Bernie voters away NightWatcher Feb 2022 #14
Umhm. Glenn Greenwald also. Imo, to believe political influencers are Hortensis Feb 2022 #16
Didn't it start as CurrentTV before it was sold by Al Gore ? MichMan Feb 2022 #11
Al Jazeera not RT or Sputnik Progressive dog Feb 2022 #17
I pulled my FiOS TV due to FOX, Newsmax, OAN & RT getting base tier and MSNBC higher tier. TheBlackAdder Feb 2022 #15
Fox News should be banned too. Marius25 Feb 2022 #19
First amendment Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #20
First Amendment doesn't allow Marius25 Feb 2022 #22
YES Keket Feb 2022 #21

NewDayOranges

(691 posts)
1. Also RadioSputnik! It's pure propaganda...
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:01 AM
Feb 2022

Disguised as a quiet, radio talkshow forum...

There are two stations going full blast here in Kansas City!

Wicked Blue

(5,767 posts)
2. And RTVi
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:11 AM
Feb 2022

but I can't find a list of what carriers offer it - am researching. It's being done elsewhere. The EU just banned RT and Sputnik. Kosovo and Khazakh have banned some Russian channels.

Four Russian TV channels banned from Estonian airwaves

ERR
25.02.2022

The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) has ordered telecomms companies to end broadcasting four Russian, plus one Belarusian, TV channels on Estonian territory, on the grounds that they had been disseminating Kremlin propaganda, in the run-up to Thursday's military attack on Ukraine.

The channels are RTR Planeta, NTV Mir (including NTV Mir Baltic), Belarus 24, Rossia 24 and TV Center International.

https://news.err.ee/1608512162/four-russian-tv-channels-banned-from-estonian-airwaves

ERR is Estonia's public broadcasting station

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Yes. RT was forced to register in 2017. But those who tune in
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:58 AM
Feb 2022

to toxic influencers have a taste for their special ingredients, mixed into a nice bowl of fresh green word salad so they can claim to be there for the lettuce.

I think we need a national "no yelling fire in a crowded nation" law -- and special courts to administer it while protecting freedom of speech -- to limit dissemination of disinformation and of course political warfare by operations that reach audiences of a determined size or influence. That would allow RT, Fox, OANN, Sinclair Broadcasting, etc, to continue to serve their audiences their special mixes, but signficantly less toxic.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,884 posts)
5. In what sense are cable, satellite, and internet TV providers broadcasting?
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:16 AM
Feb 2022

Also ...

Oh, never mind. I'm working right now.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,884 posts)
7. I don't know, but "broadcasting" isn't it.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:18 AM
Feb 2022

Distributing or supplying is probably the right word. There used to be a channel in northern Virginia that showed Thom Hartmann on RT. The station gave up its license during the recent repacking of frequencies. I had stopped watching Thom Hartmann long before that.

The local station got the programming via satellite downlink, I guess, and would then send the signal out over the air.

I think there's an FM HD radio sub-channel in DC that is run by the Chinese. I'd have to check.

Anyway, who do you think will do this banning, and on what authority?

Wicked Blue

(5,767 posts)
9. Individual distributors
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:26 AM
Feb 2022

Customers can pressure can pressure cable and satellite distributors to drop the Russian channels

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
8. Hartmann had a show on RT during a time when Bernie voters were manipulated to vote against Hillary
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:24 AM
Feb 2022

and we know of Bernie voters who were peeled off and voted for trump. Hartmann was at worst a tool that was duped.


https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/thom-hartmann-blog/





Thom had a show on RT for 7 years. He only left when DOJ wanted to list RT as a foreign agent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/20/rt-wants-to-spread-moscows-propaganda-here-lets-treat-it-that-way/

He still has a show that airs daily on Progressive networks and has fans here (who will tell me that Hartmann always had control of the content).

Don't listen to propagandists.

Happy Hoosier

(7,068 posts)
13. I still have a heart "fuck you" for Hartmann because of that.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:27 AM
Feb 2022

On what fucking planet was that ever a good idea?

It undermines my opinion of his basic decision-making skills.

And WTF was Bernie doing there?

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
14. Every tool played their part. Hartmann's was to push Bernie voters away
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:30 AM
Feb 2022

He shouldn't be listened to or carried on progressive programming.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Umhm. Glenn Greenwald also. Imo, to believe political influencers are
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:52 AM
Feb 2022

too stupid to know what they're part of is to do them great injustice. And so is not realizing they had to be very industrious to build their audiences. Greenwald, of course, still has a show on RT and is quoted often.

By definition, when Russian State TV spreads finds someone repeatedly useful, that person is a Russian asset. After that, my question is why does that person it? That would in many cases answer the question of whether that person could stop if he or she chose to.

TheBlackAdder

(28,070 posts)
15. I pulled my FiOS TV due to FOX, Newsmax, OAN & RT getting base tier and MSNBC higher tier.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 11:38 AM
Feb 2022

.

Verizon is fine pushing fascist material and disinformation.

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Keket

(17 posts)
21. YES
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 12:04 PM
Feb 2022

Fox News needs to be banned as does News Max and OANN.

AM Radio that broadcasts conservative (read Russian) misinformation needs to be banned.

I'll go further and we need to investigate the hosts and personnel who are profiting off of their Russian Propoganda. When we inevitable find that they are colluding with Russia they need to be tried publicly and imprisoned.

Keket,
You can be a good person or you can be a Republican. You can't be both.

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