One America News Network's survival in doubt after getting dropped by Verizon

The longer term is trying bleak for One America Information Community, which is being dropped by Verizon, the final main cable operator to run the strident right-wing cable channel. 

OAN was not in a position to attain settlement with Verizon, which is able to cease displaying OAN on its Fios TV service as of July 31, because the Every day Beast first reported. It is one other hit to San Diego-based OAN, which in April stopped showing on DirecTV, which accounted for almost half of the 35 million houses that had been in a position to get OAN on cable or satellite tv for pc TV. 

Verizon confirmed the report in an e mail to CBS MoneyWatch, with the corporate signaling politics had not been an element. 

"Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, enterprise as traditional carriage negotiation like people who routinely occur between content material distributors and content material suppliers," Verizon stated in its assertion. "These negotiations have been targeted on economics, as they all the time are, however OAN didn't conform to truthful phrases."

OAN didn't reply to a request for remark.

Based by tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, OAN was criticized for spreading misinformation in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election. The channel, together with Newsmax, has sought out conservative viewers who imagine right-leaning Fox Information has not been sufficiently loyal to former President Donald Trump. 

The Washington Put up in 2017 cited inside firm emails in reporting Herring had instructed the channel's workers to not run something damaging about Trump. 

OAN is being sued for defamation by voting machine firm Dominion, which contends its status was harmed by false claims associated to Trump's election loss. 

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