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Since formally being dropped by DirecTV, the channel’s largest income supply by far, conspiratorial far-right cable channel One America Information has confronted an existential disaster.
Expertise has bolted in droves, morale is low, and billion-dollar lawsuits loom over the community’s election lies. CEO Robert Herring Sr. begged viewers to name different suppliers to hold the cartoonishly MAGA community and even floated a weird rumor that Elon Musk would purchase it (Musk shortly shot that down).
And the dangerous information might get even worse: OAN may lose its largest remaining pay-TV provider in Verizon Fios. The supplier, which had solely 3.7 million subscribers as of final fall, notified prospects that OAN and the Herrings’ life-style channel AWE could also be gone on the finish of the month.
“Verizon’s settlement with Herring Networks (Herring), the proprietor of One America Information (OAN) and A Wealth of Leisure (AWE), ends on July 30, 2022. We now have been negotiating phrases for a brand new settlement with Herring,” learn the discover posted to Verizon’s web site, as liberal watchdog Media Issues first famous on Wednesday.
“OAN and AWE will stay on Fios TV by July 30, and we'll present a discover on this web site and the Fios TV Message Middle of any adjustments that could be made after that date. Please verify again for updates.”
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If OAN will get the boot, the one method to watch it within the U.S. could be through the Alaska-based Basic Communications Inc. (which has little greater than 100,000 subscribers and might fully ditch cable TV for streaming) or little-known digital carriers KlowdTV and Vidgo.
In keeping with business web site NextTV, after getting axed from DirecTV, OAN solely netted about $550,000 a month in pay-TV carriage charges—most of which got here from Fios.
“I’m attempting to go away ASAP,” one present OAN host instructed Confider, including that administration has been silent on a potential Fios exit. One other insider famous that OAN has lately pushed for extra digital content material that may “go viral” on social media.
Neither Verizon nor OAN responded to requests for remark.
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