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WATCH: Trump Fumes at Woke Executives Pulling OAN from DirecTV, Floats Call of a Boycott Against DirecTV Parent Co. AT&T
Former President Donald Trump is blaming woke executives for pulling far-Right channel One America News (OAN) from DirecTV.
In remarks at his rally in Arizona on Saturday, the former president railed against the networks removal from one of the nations largest TV providers.
The woke executives, I dont know what the hell theyre doing, Trump said. They have so much debt. (DirecTV parent company) AT&T is a company that is in serious trouble. And they need AT&T, and AT&T is saying that they may no longer agree to carry this network thats doing very well. You know why? Because people told them not to do it.
The former president then floated a call for his supporters to boycott AT&T.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-trump-fumes-at-woke-executives-pulling-oan-from-directv-floats-call-of-a-boycott-against-directv-parent-co-att/
The video is at the link. It's not youtube so... I don't know how to embed it
So yeah... ATT is in YUUUUGE trouble and OAN is doing great... Sounds believable
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,817 posts)First, that pissant network has under 20,000 viewers during primetime. They're losing money, so they're not "doing very well.". Not that TFG has any idea how business works.
Second, AT&T took a $15+ billion write-down on video businesses taking a balance sheet hit on asset value. (BTW: the defections from their platforms slowed dramatically right as they were doing this.) They still showed $4.8 billion in pretax profit. The $15+ billion didn't actually go anywhere. They made $20 billion above expenses. They are not in " serious trouble". Unless one is an idiot that has no idea how business works. Which, as we established above, describes TFG.
Hekate
(90,519 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Dotard's such a sore loser.
highnooner
(395 posts)Until they need to do some cancel culturing.
underpants
(182,580 posts)jmowreader
(50,524 posts)Dear Defeated Former President Trump:
You have accused us of being woke, whatever the hell that means to you.
And as usual, you are correct.
We woke up to the fact we lose $5000 an hour transmitting One America News Network to the fifty people who watch it. Because we are not in the business of losing money, we decided the few people who want to watch the terrible programming they broadcast can stream it on their phones.
You will be pleased to know weve decided to change the programming on that channel to the Thomas Klapotke Network. Its nothing but explosions, the science of explosions and interviews with people in the explosions industry. Since people love to watch explosions, Dr. Klapotkes channel will be instantly popular
unlike that channel were ending.
We wish you well in your future endeavors. They tell me Kansas has good weather this time of year.
Regards,
John Smith, President, AT&T Broadcast Services
Deuxcents
(16,054 posts)I wish it were not so as I retired AT&T some 30 years ago. They should cut him off n put the $$ into benefits for current n retired employees
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,876 posts)Fox News is laughing at TFG
Link to tweet
During a segment on Fox News about Trump's decision to abruptly end an interview with NPR, Kurtz also pointed out that OAN is losing most of its audience.
"Speaking of Trump and the media, his favorite network, One America News, is being dropped by AT&T's DirecTV," Kurtz said. "That's a big blow to OAN in terms of its reach and its revenue."