DirecTV plans to drop OANN!

[EleanorR]

Fantastic news!

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[dchill]

1. To quote Neil Young: "Should have been done long ago!"

[kimbutgar]

2. Now if we can get Dish to cancel Newsmax

They don’t stream OANN.

I just signed a petition to take them off and also Fox.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

[WarGamer]

5. Good luck... Newsmax is a commercial success

Sometimes beating MSNBC, CNN and even Fox according to Nielsen.

[tenderfoot]

13. They're a "successful" version of OANN

Peddling nothing but lies.

[WarGamer]

15. Without a doubt...

And the amount of gullible consumers swallowing that crap is mind blowing

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. Commercial success all that matters to corporations...so hate speech and lies and sedition

cheering is a ok.

All the carriers of these fascists should be sued along with the licensed hate speakers for aiding and abetting.

[WarGamer]

21. I've never caught a second of Newsmax

But I've seen clips of OAN and they are 100% straight up disinformation and propaganda.

[badhair77]

3. So watching every move trump makes is not in demand?

[WarGamer]

4. That should be nearly the end of OANN

90% of their revenue came from ATT/DirecTV

They still have a large presence on YouTube but will be made nearly invisible by this move.

Their estimated ratings were as low as 20,000 regular viewers.

[Nixie]

6. Wonderful!

Goodbye and good riddance.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. I dumped Verizon FiOS as they cater to all the RW crazy channels as part of their base lineup.

[monkeyman1]

24. same here ! I was with them 20 yrs. !! oh well !!

[JohnSJ]

9. I suspect the only reason they are doing it is because it wasn't very popular, and bandwidth is

limited

[DemUnleashed]

10. Fantastic!!

[spanone]

11. ...K&R...

[aggiesal]

12. Hard to believe ...

AT&T owns DirecTV
AT&T donates to OANN

Hard for me to believe that DirecTV will pull off OANN.
Once the higher ups at AT&T find out, they'll fire the person who made that decision
and reverse it.

Just my theory.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. A Bit Overstated

AT&T has investments in the holding company that contains that pipsqueak propaganda outfit.
With the scope of that giant company, a fringe network hardly anybody watches cannot generate sufficient benefit to offset the negatives of any association with OANN. It doesn't make any money.
It's better business to dump them, than to keep them
Earning an extra 10¢ to deal with a thousand bucks worth the criticism is bad business.

[WarGamer]

17. ATT didn't donate to OAN or own them

They "previously" paid them to run their channel on DTV.

Not any more.

[monkeyman1]

26. there all over- priced ! 500 channel's & don't even watch 25% of there garbage!

att (a.k.a.) American trash & telephone & Direct crap TV Is crap ! cell service suck's !

[Maine Abu El Banat]

14. Maybe this starts something

[PTWB]

18. That's fantastic news!

[BidenRocks]

20. What is this DirecTv

of which you speak?
It is dead to me!

[Bev54]

22. Isn't Direct TV also owned by AT&T?

Are they cutting loose their investment?

[Mr.Bill]

25. Yes.

They operate as one company now.

[sakabatou]

23. Good

[Roy Rolling]

27. Major Development

Propaganda is funded by networks that pay to carry their station. OANN is toast.

[SunSeeker]

28. I am now a happy DirecTV customer!

[durablend]

29. MTG tweet whining about "Free speesh" in 3...2....1....

[LiberalFighter]

30. Based on Wikipedia their viewers amounted to about 14,000.

It was the fees from DirecTv that made it possible. Even though nearly no one watched them.

[Blue Owl]

31. Can FOX be next?

[nattyice]

32. Please replace it with France 24!

[sagetea]

33. Fantastic!

Now do Fox!

sage

[NNadir]

34. It's not a "conservative" channel. It's a fascist revolutionary channel. We need to stop...

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...calling it "conservative."

Conservative means keeping things the same. Overthrowing the government in a violent revolution led by the insane is not keeping things as they are.

[Shoonra]

35. While we're at it .....

Howcome Direct TV hides the Free Speech TV channel? It's there but not on Direct TV's scheduling grid, and the only way to get to see it is to punch in the exact channel number (348) - without the scheduling grid given any clue as to the program. It's mostly very liberal (e.g. Randi Rhodes) but it is concealed while OAN is listed on the grid and easy to find.

[onenote]

36. Are you talking about an on screen programming guide?

I don't have DirecTV, but they list FSTV in their online channel line up/guide.
https://www.directv.com/guide

[Poiuyt]

37. Why did they have them in the first place?

[Poiuyt]

38. I just got a flyer from TDS with their packages and one of them had NewsMax

No way I'd pay to have that

[nolabear]

39. BIG blow. I couldn't be more pleased.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

41. I have RW relatives who watch OANN a lot. I hope they have DirecTV so they'll lose

that source of misinformation.

[BComplex]

42. DirecTV is AT&T owned. This is huge. Now if all the cable stations would drop faux nooz,

this country might actually have a chance to survive!

[liberalla]

43. I'm impressed that they made this decision, and I applaud it.