The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA cable channel One America News has been on life support since satellite provider DirecTV dropped the far-right conspiratorial network from its lineup this spring. It now looks like it may be DOA. Verizon Fios, currently the largest pay-TV platform still carrying OAN, announced on Thursday afternoon that it had been unable to come to terms with the network’s owners on a new agreement and would no longer carry the channel after this month.
Meanwhile, even as the network has lobbed attacks at Verizon as their deal was about to expire, CEO Robert Herring Sr. has begged other cable companies to pick up the struggling channel. He even went so far as to peddle far-fetched rumors that Elon Musk was going to buy the network (something Musk quickly shot down.) The network’s hosts have also urged viewers to dig up dirt on executives of companies that had dropped OAN, not exactly helping Herring’s cause to attract new customers.
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OAN continues to face those pesky mega-lawsuits.
NEW: MAGA cable channel One America News now looks like it may be DOA. https://t.co/kkUKy9EI38
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 21, 2022
Newsmax, One America News sued by voting technology firm Smartmatic https://t.co/fvHB1BnZ3D pic.twitter.com/EF83ahFJ5d
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 3, 2021
New: OAN’s contract with Verizon expires on July 30. So the anti-democracy network is doubling down on crying “censorship,” including asking a member of Congress what “pressure” the GOP could apply to Verizon. https://t.co/wmsvNTuGWO
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) July 20, 2022