Less than a month after calling liberals “sick demons” who “love killing babies,” One America News host Alison Steinberg attempted to reach across partisan lines Tuesday night while pleading with her political foes to stand with her struggling pro-Trump network in its time of need. “It is absolutely crucial that, for once, we defy the powers that be, that we all come together, set aside our differences in a unified effort so that we can recognize the horrifying danger that lies ahead,” Steinberg said in response to Verizon’s decision to not renew its Fios contract with OAN. According to The New York Times, when Verizon’s move takes effect on Saturday, OAN will have seen its removal from roughly 20 million homes in 2022, as the network was also dropped by DirectTV earlier this year. Steinberg went on to make a direct appeal to viewers experiencing schadenfreude amid OAN’s final days of wide-scale distribution: “If you’re watching this and you’re laughing and scoffing because you think that you’re immune to what’s coming, you just wait. Enjoy your freedoms while you still got ’em.”
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With the Verizon announcement last week, the far-right channel—which is owned by Herring Networks and rose to prominence last year after it pushed Trumpworld’s most crackpot election-fraud claims—is slated to lose its last major pay-TV provider and one of its biggest revenue streams. AT&T declared in January that DirecTV would be dropping the network, leading to OAN’s removal from some 15 million homes in April. The Times report noted that OAN will still be available to a few hundred thousand consumers who subscribe to various minor cable providers, including Frontier and GCI Liberty. “I really think this is the death blow for the network,” Scott Robson, a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, told the paper.
In another segment protesting Verizon’s decision, OAN host Pearson Sharp called the company a “radical Marxist corporation,” saying, “Over the last few years, we’ve watched as countless independent, freethinking, and conservative organizations were shut down and censored by the radical left. Regrettably, that toxic cancel culture is still alive and well, and it’s coming after One America News.” Sharp, whose most notable on-air moment was perhaps his calling for mass political executions over supposed 2020 election-fraud crimes, also accused the telecom giant of joining a Biden administration plot to “censor and silence” OAN.
Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog that has worked to steer advertisers and cable providers away from OAN by publicizing its most unhinged segments and stunts, praised the Verizon decision in a statement last Thursday. “OAN is a cauldron of conspiracy theories, extremism, and lies,” wrote Media Matters president Angelo Carusone. “It was able to exist all these years in its current form only because it was being subsidized by AT&T/DirecTV and Verizon.… Losing Verizon is like the final nail in the coffin for OAN. No other cable company should throw them a lifeline by picking them up.”
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