Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks - LA Times

[Mikey Radio]

Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks​

Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks

DirecTV's decision to drop OAN and Newsmax's loss of several smaller systems are driven by economic pressure, not politics.

www.latimes.com

OAN is not be the only conservative outlet losing distribution. Newsmax, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based channel that is the TV home of former President Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was dropped from four cable systems in January after it failed to reach new carriage agreements with those companies.

 

[TheBigA]

Which may explain the big push by Newsmax to promote its OTT app. They've been running a bunch of ads that say "Tired of paying for cable?" They're tapping in with the "cut the cord" movement.

 

[Mikey Radio]

The headline of this article isn't worded the best - maybe they thought they were creating a headline that would get lots of clicks, but if one reads it, the reason Newsmax and OAN and the like are being dropped is because of money and economics, not necessarily politics or some liberal conspiracy or hatred of the right or some anti-GOP stance.

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

OAN also has an OTA and doing fine on the 2 stations that have it.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

The headline of this article isn't worded the best - maybe they thought they were creating a headline that would get lots of clicks, but if one reads it, the reason Newsmax and OAN and the like are being dropped is because of money and economics, not necessarily politics or some liberal conspiracy or hatred of the right or some anti-GOP stance.

True and it's a typical carriage contract OAN and Newsmax agrees to with a streaming and cable providers. But in past cases OAN's pundits made a conspiracy theory that they were being cancelled or censored.

https://www.nexttv.com/news/oan-host-declares-war-on-directv

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

The next move for OAN.

https://www.nexttv.com/news/will-directv-drop-push-oan-to-streaming

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.nexttv.com/news/trump-calls-for-boycotts-of-atandt-and-comcast-says-theyre-radical-left-lunatics-who-are-destroying-our-nation

Now Trump goes after AT&T and Comcast over the OAN dispute.

Former president Donald Trump, who has been using his ongoing national circuit of campaign-style rallies to urge the boycott of DirecTV and parent company AT&T for removing conservative channel One America News (OAN), added his re-ignited wrath for Comcast to the flame this past weekend.



Speaking Saturday at the fairgrounds in the East Texas flatland town of Conroe, Trump described both publicly traded telecommunications giants as "left-wing lunatics who are destroying our nation." (The UK's Daily Mail reported on the event.)


Notably, both companies contributed to Trump's failed 2020 re-election bid, according to Open Secrets. AT&T was also an aggressive supporter of Trump's 2017 corporate tax rollback, one of the former president's few big legislative wins. Comcast, meanwhile, backed the Trump-assembled FCC leadership's bid to roll back net neutrality rules established under the Barack Obama administration.

 

[Mikey Radio]

https://www.nexttv.com/news/trump-calls-for-boycotts-of-atandt-and-comcast-says-theyre-radical-left-lunatics-who-are-destroying-our-nation

Now Trump goes after AT&T and Comcast over the OAN dispute.

You've gotta hand it to the guy...Like any good showman, Trump knows his core audience and he knows how to energize them. In turn, they blindly follow him and take whatever he spouts off as the gospel truth. Dangerous and detrimental in many ways to the very country he and his flock claim to love so much, yes, but as PT Barnum, a showman similar to Trump once said, "There's a sucker born every minute". Trump has discovered how to sell to them.