OAN host to Rep. Jim Jordan after interview: "Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us,"

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Jan 22

Before One America News Network host Dan Ball finished an interview with guest Jim Jordan this past week, he asked the Ohio Republican congressman for a favor.

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Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-01-22/why-pay-tv-operators-are-dropping-trump-loving-cable-networks


(K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) By Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer



Jan. 22, 2022 5 AM PT

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Earlier in the week, Ball solicited viewers to send him “dirt” on William E. Kennard, chairman of of the board at DirecTV parent AT&T, including any evidence of marital infidelity. OAN’s 80-year-old founder, tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, also went on camera to plead with viewers to ask other cable and satellite providers in their areas to add the channel to their lineups.

The desperate calls for help — which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet — follow DirecTV’s Jan. 15 announcement that it will drop San Diego-based OAN from its service in April. DirecTV, which AT&T spun off last summer, accounts for nearly half of the 35 million homes that can receive OAN on cable or satellite TV. The channel is not broadly distributed enough to be measured by Nielsen.


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OAN is not the only conservative outlet losing distribution. Newsmax, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based channel that is the TV home of former President Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was dropped from four cable systems in January after it failed to reach new carriage agreements with those companies.

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“We count 11 liberal news and information channels in a typical cable package, with Fox News Channel and Newsmax as the only alternatives,” Newsmax Chief Executive Chris Ruddy said in a statement to The Times. “All Americans are harmed when any voice, liberal or conservative, is closed down. We believe that society as a whole benefits from more discussion and political views being represented, not less.”

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[Walleye]

1. Oh how much they love capitalism till it goes against them

So of course you need on your congressman that’s what you bought them for

[Whiskeytide]

2. K&R just because everyone should read the phrase ...

… “ — which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet — ” for a good belly laugh.

[crickets]

6. +1

[Blue Owl]

3. Maybe Gymbag could break out some of his wrestling moves

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I did. I signed a petition to AT&T to end all support of OAN.

[Midnight Writer]

5. "We count 11 liberal news and information channels..." I wish I could find one.

I know they count the Weather Channel as a liberal propaganda channel.