From USA TODAY:
Satellite pay-television service DirecTV will drop One America News Network (OAN) when the right-wing channel’s current carriage deal expires, likely a critical hit to OAN’s viewership and finances.
About 90% of the right-wing network’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T’s TV platforms including DirecTV and U-verse, Reuters reported in October 2021, citing sworn 2020 testimony by an OAN accountant. DirecTV is the network’s largest distributor, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” DirecTV said in a statement to USA TODAY.
A DirecTV spokesman would not say when OAN parent Herring Networks’ contract with DirecTV expires. But Bloomberg, which first reported on DirecTV’s plan to drop OAN, said the contract ends in early April.
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