No, it was economics which led to the networks being granted unprecedented availability (considering the production standards are lower than college TV and the content is worse than a 10 year old’s YouTube vlog). Politics (specifically dangerous broadcasts supporting violent insurrectionists and equally deadly false statements about Covid) led to them being pulled.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 8:59 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > And now fellow previous-POTUS-kissing channel Newsmax is also losing > carriage, and while their CEO spouted the *they hate us* screed to the > Dog Trainer, the providers contend it's economics, not politics, that drove > them away: > https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-01-22/why-pay-tv-operators-are-dropping-trump-loving-cable-networks > (link) > B > > Moi, Jan 16th: > >> NPR, quoting paywalled Bloomberg: The rightie newser and its Herring >> Networks stablemate AWE will be dropped when their contract expires at the >> satcaster... AT&T finally caving to calls to drop the >> conservative-conspiracy-flavoured network... no comment from either side. >> >> >> https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073407803/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-network >> (link) >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/dbd51a92-c4c9-4eb6-9b20-3065ddfb6d2en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/dbd51a92-c4c9-4eb6-9b20-3065ddfb6d2en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B6xEPbYhEPsPbwdhMKRUjXShC_77NraidbZ_Kh%3D0SegA%40mail.gmail.com.
