Tag Archives: Robert Herring

Business Insider reports: A federal judge on Tuesday gave a green light to Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against One America News, a right-wing media organization it alleges pushed conspiracy theories about the election technology company’s role in the 2020 presidential election. Herring Networks, which operates OAN, asked US District Judge Carl J. Nichols to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing he didn’t have …

The Daily Dot reports: The conservative One America News Network (OAN) claimed today that Elon Musk is considering buying it. Musk denied it. People were highly skeptical about Herring’s claim. “Did the person yell ‘BA BA BOOEY!’ at the end of the call?” wrote one. Amusement only grew after Musk denied that he wants to buy the right-wing network being …

Media Matters reports: One America News Network recently interviewed its founder and owner, Robert Herring, wherein he made desperate plays to ideologically link OAN to popular conservative figures and goad the audience into contacting cable providers to pick up the network. Herring’s interview — which has aired at least seven times as of Friday morning — covered a wide variety …

Bloomberg News reports: DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network on Tuesday, ignoring pressure to reverse course from the conservative cable outlet and its supporters. The satellite TV giant has been notifying customers that it will no longer carry OAN or AWE, a high-end lifestyle channel also owned by Herring Networks, after April 4. In March, Herring Networks sued …

Media Matters has the transcript: ROBERT HERRING, SR. (OAN FOUNDER AND OWNER): Hello, my name is Robert Herring, and I’m owner and CEO of One America News Network. I’m sure by now a lot of you have heard the news that AT&T and DirecTV have decided to take us off their service. It was a major surprise to me when …

The Daily Beast reports: Pro-Trump right-wing cable outlet One America News is launching a Spanish-language sister network that should debut this fall, the network’s founder and CEO confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday. OAN has been working on the launch of the separate channel specifically as a means to target a conservative Spanish-speaking audience. The channel would largely feature …