Posted on 03/02/2023 6:28:19 AM PST by JV3MRC
It appears that DirecTV dubiously dropping Newsmax and One America News within months of each other may be connected to the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against the two news outlets.
AT&T, which holds the majority ownership stake in DirecTV (70 percent), is overseen by its liberal Board Chairman William Kennard, who’s been accused of directly interfering in the decision by DirecTV to drop OAN April 2022. This development happened just under a year after it was reported that Dominion Voting Systems, the voting tech company that was the subject of controversy during the 2020 election, had launched billion-dollar lawsuits against both OAN and Newsmax in 2021 for spreading what NPR called “misinformation” about “rigging the ballots.” DirecTV has since deplatformed both outlets. Kennard is one of the three executive board members of Staple Street Capital, the middle market private equity firm that — along with the Dominion Voting Systems management team — acquired Dominion Voting Systems in 2018. Kennard’s executive role at Staple Street Capital — of which he reportedly joined in 2014 — involved “principally focus[ing] on the communications and media sectors and other regulated industries.” Kennard also joined AT&T’s board in 2014, and was named AT&T chairman just three days after the tumultuous 2020 election.
In other words, the chairman of the company that owns the programming distributor that dropped OAN and Newsmax, is also an executive board member of the firm that owns the voting company that’s suing both outlets.
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I don’t particularly like NewsMax because they are a propogandist for the forever war in Ukraine.
But, I am against corporate driven censorship and will stand behind them on that account. I am not switching my cell phonse to AT&T. Even if they promise to give me a rotating screen of males gone transdrag.
This is the Bill Clinton appointee scumbag that attempted to silence conservative radio when he ran the FCC. He’s pure garbage.
Dropped AT&T after they canceled OAN.
We were a mere couple of days away from finally dropping AT&T U-verse TV service for Sling TV (wife has a handful of must-have channels). But then Dish/Sling get hacked recently, causing us to hesitate. If it were just me, I would have dropped U-verse service 2-3 years ago.
DirecTV? Nothing. Dying business. Digital streaming is replacing them of course and none to soon.
There needs to be a better ala carte selection of programming with traditional adds or subscription without adds.
I still get OANN. SUBSCRIBE FOR $4.99 a month. Streams to all my laptops, phones and computers.
I’m not sure how to project the programming to my TV using my WiFi.
I really like Chanel Reon, truly an Investigative Journalist, who will NEVER win a Pulitzer Prize, but deserves more than one of them.
I have Sling thru ROKU. Might want to investigate getting it that way.
It’s very easy to connect a laptop to your TV Orville for about $50 you can get a roku and stream to your TV from it.
How would that help? Sorry, we're new to this. Does payment information stay with Roku, who would then forward off the payment to Sling, rather than pay Sling directly?
Dominion Voting Systems is in safe mode the democrat party needs them and will protect them to keep their power.
#6 Sling and Roku with free apps you add like the FREE Pluto tv and the FREE Youtube and the channels you subscribe to and an over the air tv antenna will have everything you need.
#8 Get a Roku box to plug into your tv then add the app for OANN.
https://channelstore.roku.com/details/c8d600c3be7673907bcfa94909be8639/one-america-news-network-oan
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