In trying to pay less in fees to Fox News, AT&T helped empower a monster.
. What this essentially means is that OAN wanted to charge AT&T a lot of money in exchange for carrying its programming, and AT&T said it wouldn’t pay the price. OAN sued.
Then, AT&T had a change of heart: Not only would it put OAN on its menu of DirecTV channels, it would also provide what amounts to a subsidy for the network to the tune of tens of millions of dollars — $57 million in monthly fees over five years, Reuters reported. As it turns out, no one wants to advertise on OANOAN’s antidemocratic impulses helped propel its visibility to new heights after the 2020 election.
This metamorphosis from “We don’t believe you have any value” to “Please, please, let us pay you to produce whatever type of content you’d like” took about a half-decade, the midpoint of which was the presidential election of Donald Trump. It's a reflection of AT&T’s realization that right-wing eyeballs mean big money. But OAN’s viewership was — and is —For one thing, Reuters reported that AT&T got help from OAN’s founder, Robert Herring Sr., who saidwith DirecTV.
Herring claimed that AT&T craved conservative money and wanted a second conservative network, too. Well, there’s more to this. Cable providers combined pay
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