Verizon, the last major cable company to carry right-wing TV channel OAN, plans to stop airing it on Saturday. Alaska carrier GCI has no immediate plans to drop the channel, which has been a reliable platform for COVID and election conspiracy theories.
by DirectTV. Their decisions leave the channel, once a reliable advocate for the administration of former President Donald Trump, without a nationwide audience and without the funding provided by fees paid by those carriers.that the channel will soon be accessible only to customers of smaller cable networks such as GCI’s parent company, GCI Liberty.
“GCI’s current contract to deliver OAN content was signed in 2019. When the contract concludes, GCI will review the viewership numbers and determine whether or not to negotiate for a new contract. This is the regular business practice GCI uses for all contracts to deliver pay TV programming. For reference, GCI manages more than 50 programming contracts for nearly 300 channels,” Edge said.“The terms of the OAN contract, like all content contracts, are confidential,” he said.
It has been a reliable platform for conspiracy theories related to COVID-19, vaccinations and the 2020 election. The network now faces several defamation lawsuits relating to that coverage.
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