AT&T behind OANn... game-playing both sides for profits

[butters]

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/

OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.

“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”

Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.

Without the DirecTV deal, the accountant said under oath, the network’s value “would be zero.”

Dallas-based AT&T, a mobile-phone and Internet provider, also owns entertainment giant Warner Media, which includes CNN and HBO. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015

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Although the contracts are confidential, in court filings Herring cited monthly fees included in one five-year deal with AT&T. According to an AT&T filing citing Herring’s numbers, those fees would total about $57 million. Greer said that figure is inaccurate, but declined to say how much AT&T has paid to air OAN, citing a non-disclosure agreement.

Herring and his adult sons own and operate OAN, a subsidiary of their closely held San Diego-based Herring Networks. Their AT&T deal includes Herring’s other network, a little-watched lifestyle channel, AWE. The Herrings declined interview requests.

it's one thing to promote discussion via various points of view, but to permit open and dangerous misinformation? they're playing games with their audiences.

 

[pecksniff]

David Horowitz has a "Discover the Network" site tracking connections between LW organizations. It appears to be the other side that really merits scrutiny in that regard.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Number of OAN viewers who will stop cuz of this: 0

 

[CornusKousa]

it's one thing to promote discussion via various points of view, but to permit open and dangerous misinformation? they're playing games with their audiences.

Who gets to decide what is "Open and DANGEROUS misinformation"????

Who gets to be the censor butters???

If free speech is a problem for you and the other totalitarian control freaks, I'm super stoked to inform you that you are in the WRONG country sister.

If you want the state to censor people saying things you don't like because yer fee fees??? Go the fuck back to the UK.

People are allowed to think differently and voice their views here.... ya fucking psychotic control freak.

 

[WillJ8787]

Who gets to decide what is "Open and DANGEROUS misinformation"????

Who gets to be the censor butters???

If free speech is a problem for you and the other totalitarian control freaks, I'm super stoked to inform you that you are in the WRONG country sister.

If you want the state to censor people saying things you don't like because yer fee fees??? Go the fuck back to the UK.

People are allowed to think differently and voice their views here.... ya fucking psychotic control freak.

Butters ain't goin nowhere....it's you who needs to get the fuck out shit for brains!

We all get to decide....it's called democracy.
News sites that promote lies and misinformation for a purpose.... undermining the Constitution and our way if life in the USA are gonna face the consequences of their actions.

Either your with us or you are not....in your case Bobo banana brain, you have show your on the side of traitors, insurrectionist, murderers, white nationalist, authoritarians....your days are number!

Times up!

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'm not seeing the outrage here.

DirecTV has lots of shitty channels that are found on no other TV provider. It's a bad thing to provide a platform for althnative views? DirecTV also has Covid News Network, MicroSoftNBC, Cheddar, Newsy.

What a nothingburger.

 

[CornusKousa]

Butters ain't goin nowhere....it's you who needs to get the fuck out shit for brains!

Why? I'm not the one who hates the place.

We all get to decide....it's called democracy.

No we don't, it's called the 1st Amendment.

And if AT&T, OAN, Alex Jones and whoever want to have a multi billion dollar media empire built on E-tabloids pumping out stories about the alien-hybrid babies they're harvesting organs for to make Covid Vaccine by the truck load?? They can do that.

If comedians want to say offensive things like "real women don't have dicks." that send "progressives" into temper tantrums 3 year old style??

If musicians want to write a song about how it's ok to be white?

If a scientist has data that conflicts with the mainstream POLITICAL narrative and asks questions...

They can do that, and you can take you authoritarian censorship and go fuck yourself with it.

Either your with us or you are not...

Anti-Americans actively subverting and advocating an end to our civil rights?

100% against you.

in your case Bobo banana brain, you have show your on the side of traitors, insurrectionist, murderers, white nationalist, authoritarians....your days are number!

You, Mr. Pro-censorship.... are the authoritarian. LOL

Times up!

Come and fuckin' take it then bitch..... I triple hot dog dare your bitch ass

 

[WillJ8787]

We tried this before and you proved to be the coward we all know you to be?

Where? Location?

I posted mine in past threads. So, if you don't want to be serious get lost!

Nothing worse than a person if low character.

 

[CornusKousa]

We tried this before and you proved to be the coward we all know you to be?

No, we haven't.

Where? Location?

Oh.... now you need me to spoon feed you???

North shore of Lake Superior.

There you go, on a silver platter... bet your impotent ass does NOTHING.

I posted mine in past threads. So, if you don't want to be serious get lost!

Yea some random street corner in Philly.

Vague puss puss shit from the guy making thinly veiled threats and can't back them up.

Nothing worse than a person if low character.

Says the lil bitch who can't back his threats.

"times up!!" LOL..... says who?? You?? You're just an impotent leftist on the internet DESPERATE to have the nanny state come tell him how to live his life.

You won't do shit... you can't even take care of yourself.

 

[WillJ8787]

Chuckles....you don't think I already know....chuckles...Mr. Appleguy.

Please....time waster.

 

[CornusKousa]

Chuckles....you don't think I already know....chuckles...Mr. Appleguy.

Please....time waster.

You made the threats.

You're the one who wants to take my rights and property.

You gonna back it up E-tough guy who can't even take care of himself ????

Come out into these deep dark woods and take it bitch....

 

[WillJ8787]

You made the threats.

You're the one who wants to take my rights and property.

You gonna back it up E-tough guy who can't even take care of himself ????

Come out into these deep dark woods and take it bitch....

https://youtu.be/p9gV9yHQ12k

 

[CornusKousa]

https://youtu.be/p9gV9yHQ12k

That's what I thought.... just a punk bitch from Philly.

 

[butters]

I'm not seeing the outrage here.

DirecTV has lots of shitty channels that are found on no other TV provider. It's a bad thing to provide a platform for althnative views? DirecTV also has Covid News Network, MicroSoftNBC, Cheddar, Newsy.

What a nothingburger.

alternate viewpoints are one thing–something i have nothing against and would even encourage; the willful distribution of health misinformation & the stoking of political/mental unrest through deliberate lies about the election are quite another. OAN's programming actually promotes the harm of their own audience.

 

[butters]

Number of OAN viewers who will stop cuz of this: 0

i know. *shrugs*

i'm not so naive to believe that other big corps also play the field in all manner of ways, even down to financially backing both sides, politically, or not pursuing a medical breakthrough when they can sell over-the-counter/prescribed lucrative symptom-relief meds by the shed-load.

 

[CornusKousa]

alternate viewpoints are one thing–something i have nothing against and would even encourage; the willful distribution of health misinformation & the stoking of political/mental unrest through deliberate lies about the election are quite another. OAN's programming actually promotes the harm of their own audience.

Alternate viewpoints are fine ..... until she doesn't like them.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Who gets to decide what is "Open and DANGEROUS misinformation"????

Who gets to be the censor butters???

If free speech is a problem for you and the other totalitarian control freaks, I'm super stoked to inform you that you are in the WRONG country sister.

If you want the state to censor people saying things you don't like because yer fee fees??? Go the fuck back to the UK.

People are allowed to think differently and voice their views here.... ya fucking psychotic control freak.

So CRT is okay in schools then.

Thanks for finally clearing that up.

 

[CornusKousa]

So CRT is okay in schools then.

Thanks for finally clearing that up.

I never had a problem with leftist teaching their kids to hate white people in public schools.

So I'm not sure what needed clearing up but it seems you attempted a swing and ya missed.... better luck next time Phil.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Eh? They can do as they want
But
I don’t have to use AT&T or Direct TV anymore

Freedom of Speech? Fine
Freedom of “facts” ? Nope

Let’s see their “facts” about Dominion voting
If they just listened to Guiliani, they should be done

 

[Lazaran]

alternate viewpoints are one thing–something i have nothing against and would even encourage; the willful distribution of health misinformation & the stoking of political/mental unrest through deliberate lies about the election are quite another. OAN's programming actually promotes the harm of their own audience.

What AT&T did is the equivalent of inserting an agitator into a peaceful protest.

They were KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY sowing chaos and division in America by manufacturing a far right wing propaganda outlet that fed AND preyed upon the Deplorable's ignorance and radical extremism.

SAD!!!

 

[Philthy_Phil]

I never had a problem with leftist teaching their kids to hate white people in public schools.
l.

Lol, right.

 

[WillJ8787]

Alternate viewpoints are fine ..... until she doesn't like them.

hey monkey brain...no one cares what you say.

 

[CornusKousa]

Lol, right.

Seriously, I don't care what leftist shit holes do with their own shit holes....no my problem.

It's only when they try to force their bullshit on other states who want no part of their insane self loathing garbage politics that it becomes a problem.

 

[WillJ8787]

I never had a problem with leftist teaching their kids to hate white people in public schools.

So I'm not sure what needed clearing up but it seems you attempted a swing and ya missed.... better luck next time Phil.

hey monkey brain...no one cares what you say.

 

[WillJ8787]

Awwwwww desperately clinging to the fantasy that I'm a social conservative and control freak??

Wrong....

I don't care what leftist shit holes do with their own shit holes....no my problem.

California wants to do a no ID needed, free for anyone who shows up with their hands out UHC plan paid for by the people and visitors to the state of California? No problem.

NY wants to put up a hard border for vaccine enforcement? DO IT!!

hey monkey brain...no one cares what you say.