The conservative cable news channel One America News Network (OANN) has had a rough time of it since the 2020 election. The network, founded in 2013 by Robert Herring, is known for far-right content and unwavering support of former President Donald Trump. But not many distributors broadcast the network. So, what happened to One America News?
OAN has been plagued by lawsuits since the last presidential election when false claims of rigged ballots and faulty voting machines ran rampant. The network is facing lawsuits from both Dominion and Smartmatic, companies that provided voting machines in 2020. The voting machine companies claim to have lost business due to the disinformation spread by OANN.
Though it may appear that OAN has been canceled, the network still exists at the end of 2022. However, the company is struggling to find distributors willing to carry its programming due to the heavily pro-Trump, far-right nature of its shows.
OAN stated in 2019 that it was available in about 35 million American households. Nielsen Media Research at that time said its viewership was an estimated 14,000. However, by July 2022, OAN was only available to a few hundred thousand subscribers to local cable providers.
DirecTV and Verizon Communications both ceased their partnerships with One America News, drastically cutting the availability of the conservative network across the country.
In October 2022, Bloomberg reported that OAN was working on a new...
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