Go Nakamura via Reuters
UNITED STATES – Hard blow for Donald Trump. Subscription television service DirecTV has decided not to renew its contract with One America News Network (OAN), an ultra-conservative American channel, conspiracy and great support from theformer president of the United States.
“After a routine internal assessment, we have informed Herring Networks (the owner of OAN, editor’s note) that we do not intend to sign a new contract when the current one expires,” said a holder. word from DirecTV to AFP on Friday 14 January.
The deal is due to end next April, according to a source familiar with the matter. DirecTV, which is owned by US telecommunications giant AT&T, did not detail the reasons for its decision.
OAN is one of the new ultra-conservative players in television news, which is trying to nibble market share from the reference FoxNews. Like Newsmax or Real America’s Voice, they refused to recognize Donald Trump’s defeat in the presidential election in November 2020, relaying the conspiracy theories of electoral fraud formulated by the former head of state.
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In mid-November 2020, OAN presenter Christina Bobb assured, for example, that the Democrats had “prepared a coup against the President of the United States”.
Donald Trump himself had invited his supporters to turn to OAN and Newsmax and more and more leading Republican personalities are accepting invitations on these two antennas.
The channel saw its audiences climb in the wake of the election, but DirecTV’s decision is a blow, because it is its largest distributor, according to specialized American media. OAN did not immediately react to a request from AFP.
A year ago, when supporters of Donald Trump had invaded Congress during the Democrat’s Victory Certification Ceremony Joe Biden, OAN and Newsmax had denounced, without any supporting evidence, the supposed infiltration of ultra-left groups.
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