DirecTV to sever ties with OAN and drop the right-wing conspiracy channel later this year

[ificandream]

Source: CNN

New York (CNN Business)One America News, the right-wing conspiracy channel favored by former President Donald Trump, will be dropped later this year by DirecTV, a spokesperson for the television carrier said Friday evening.

The move will deal a significant blow to the fringe outlet. Not only will OAN be removed from the millions of households that use DirecTV as a television provider, it will also suffer a major hit to its revenue.

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In a statement, a DirecTV spokesperson told CNN, "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."

Bloomberg News, which broke the story, reported that the contract expires in early April. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that date to CNN.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/media/oan-directv/index.html

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Now please drop Newsmax, too. And Fox.

[monkeyman1]

1. why not now ? what's this , another pr ploy to get scripts up !!

[rpannier]

4. Contract expires in April

OAN would sue and win for breach of contract

[turbinetree]

2. We'll better late than never....and I agree drop Fix Noise and that other thing called

whatever.........

[certainot]

3. maybe 87 universities need to rethink their support for 260 x-limbaugh stations

it's absurd that we let those schools continue to use their athletes to support rw radio

red 'herring networks'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[KS Toronado]

6. But But But what about the FailedCoupGuy's 1st amendment rights?

[Botany]

7. In Ohio Wide Open West has dumped News Max as of the 1st of this year, '22.

n/t

But we really need to cut out the major cancer on America and that is Fox News. At least
make them quit calling themselves "news" because they are not.

[samnsara]

11. i still associate with some trumpets and they hate faux news..reason why they are now all newmax

..which is worse?

[Botany]

12. NewsMax is much more wing nut stuff but still both of them are based on lying to the American People

Fox is much worse because its "footprint" is so big and millions more watch it and think they are seeing
the truth.

[truthisfreedom]

8. coming to their senses, finally.

[samnsara]

9. i tried to watch mary tyler moore on pluto last night..and newsmax had the monoploy on ads

...a gruff growly voice..same one they used for trumpy bear i think. Im glad direct is quitting trumpers.. wish dish would do the same.

[Ziggysmom]

17. Oh I know what you mean, that voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me! Jimmy Kimmel did

a hilarious spoof 😉

[oldsoftie]

10. Now drop the Scientology propaganda channel

I know they're probably paying a ton to be on there but cults shouldnt get their own channel

[durablend]

13. Has MTG spoken out yet about this "travesty" ?

[pwb]

14. We all should be able to opt out of that puke crap.

On all cable corporations. Cable needs to be regulated big time. Opinion, lies and silence on major issues are not news.

[reACTIONary]

18. Who is going to do the regulating...

.... the Ministry of Truth?

[pwb]

19. Do we have Ministries here in America?

Requiring the truth is a start. Not allowing them to be silent on major issues could be next. Legislation would be necessary to stop the media steal of our democracy.

[reACTIONary]

20. Requiring the truth? So you do want....

... a Ministry of Truth.

FYI, The Ministry of Truth is one of the four ministries from Orwell's 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Ministry_of_Truth

[MarineCombatEngineer]

23. The truth according to who?

It's a 2 way street, and the repukes would love to have such a law in effect for the next time they take power.

Be careful what you wish for.

[onenote]

21. You can opt out

Don’t watch.
And what about newspapers —are you for regulating them? Should you be able to demand your newspaper delete certain stories or columns before it is delivered to you?

[pwb]

24. I don't watch any Cable news Talkers. Even the ones liked here.

And when a newspaper is wrong or lies it prints an apology. What does Cable do? they keep lying. We lie you decide is not news. IMO.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

22. No, cable should NOT be regulated,

if you don't want to watch, then don't turn to the Faux channel, simple as that.

[pwb]

25. Regulation on being able to chose what stations to buy was more my point.

Go Army.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

26. Got it.

That's something I could get behind, but the devils in the details.

[pwb]

27. This was my thought.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1933075/-If-you-have-cable-you-are-subsidizing-Fox-News-It-might-be-time-to-cut-the-cord-Here-s-how

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. Fascinating.

I cancelled my cable service a couple of years ago due to the fact that I'm not home enough to justify the cost, if I want to watch something while at home on R&R, I have Netflix, Youtube, etc, same in both of my trucks.

Most truck stops have free internet for truck drivers so streaming isn't an issue.

Thanks for the link.

[2naSalit]

15. The sooner the better!

[GB_RN]

16. One Down...

Two to go: Faux and SpewsMax.

[msfiddlestix]

28. That's good to know. Don't know what took so long. Any word on Roku yet?

I do Roku streaming for services I subscribe to, like Netflix, Prime, Pandora, Hulu and the like. Last month I took advantage of a $.99 cent offer for Showtime, Starz, Acorn and something else I forget now, but doing it through the Roku Channel.

I noticed OAN right there on the guide. So now I'm wondering if OAN access will be dropped Roku Channel as well?