The far-right news platform One America News got seriously bad news on Friday as DirecTV announced it will be dropping the conservative channel from its lineup in April dealing a huge blow to the pro-Trump network. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1482379568128434177 From the Washington Post:
The move figures to be a big financial loss for the fringe network. An OAN accountant reported in 2020 that 90 percent of the channel’s revenue in the previous year stemmed from subscriber fees paid by DirecTV and other AT&T-owned platforms, according to Reuters.
AT&T has been repeatedly criticized for playing a foundational role in building up OAN into a Trump-friendly alternative to Fox News. Though DirecTV is now its own company, AT&T owns 70 percent of the satellite provider.
Without the estimated tens of millions of dollars in revenue from AT&T, an OAN accountant said in sworn testimony that the network’s value “would be zero.”
Read the full report here. The channel grew to national prominence during the Trump administration as it fed viewers a daily diet of conspiracy theories regarding the 2020 presidential election and coronavirus pandemic. https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1482144375933222922 https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1482158070646165508
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