>> OAN is in a little bit of trouble. I'm sure many of you have now heard that
they are being dropped by DIRECTV which is not good news for them.
It was announced just this last week that they will be dropped this year by DIRECTV.
OAN if you're not familiar with it, is a wanna be Fox news but even more irresponsible and crazy.
Although I don't think they have anyone as awful and as directly opposed about
democracy and journalism as Tucker Carlson, so maybe they're better. I don't know.
Anyway, they became one of Donald Trump's favorite channels while he
was president. In 2020 he gave OAN a boost by tweeting one of its stories.
Do you know which one? It was one that mocked an elderly protester who was
knocked down and injured by police on TV during a protest in Buffalo.
I think you remember that video and that protester, his skull was cracked open by police,
and trump thought that that was so funny that he'll boost any media outlet that mocks that guy.
Absolutely disgusting. Anyway, being dropped by DIRECTV is not just a small thing,
for them it's apparently big. They had said in 2021 of their lawyers that if Herring
Networks was to lose or not be renewed, that's OAN basically, Herring Networks,
to not be renewed on DIRECTV, the company would go out of business tomorrow.
That turns out not to be true. Or at least we'll see once they get dropped, but they're not gone
yet, anyway. Although 90% of their revenue supposedly comes through AT&T platforms,
so that we've all known for a few days. What you might not know though, is what they have left.
They're not going to have DIRECTV, but that doesn't mean that they don't have anything. And
Media Matters did a great job of summing up what they still have
access to in terms of broadcasts. So, they have to national carriers,
CenturyLink Prism, it's a thing, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, it appears to be in the process of discontinuing service nationwide,
so okay, maybe that's not the best fallback. Verizon FiOS TV, that makes OAN available
to 3.7 million subscribers and Verizon is perfectly fine, maybe they can rely on them.
I don't know, I had a show on Verizon streaming service and they canceled it like two weeks later.
So, not the show, the service. So, maybe don't rely on them.
Anyway, they're also available on Roku which has 55 million active users. And by the way,
has TYT on Roku, Amazon Fire TV with 50 million users, Vidgo. And a platform that I
originally read as clown TV, which would have seemed appropriate, it's apparently KlowdTV.
And they post videos on Rumble, and they tweet stuff, I think, and they have podcasts on I heard.
So Jr, they're not totally gone and maybe they can transition to these other platforms. They have
after all only lost 90% of their revenue. >> Yes, see that's the revenue, right?
And which AT&T was part of the whole creation of this network, right? And it was kinda keeping them
contained. This is according to those court documents, already was reporting this before
about the origins of OAN. And partially it was AT&T,
and AT&T owns DIRECTV. And now DIRECTV wants to end this relationship.
So, I don't know if there's something that keeps them sustained, cuz there's plenty of
places where they'll still be seen. Or maybe they have an issue with not being on like the name
TV, the cable network that they know Donald Trump likes to watch. They
know he's the one who propelled them, he's the one who pushed them forward.
So, if he can't find him cuz he doesn't know what Roku is I mean,
it's gonna be a problem. >> Yeah, by the way,
there's a few pieces of technology that I have a great deal of affection for,
randomly I love my Roku. It's like that is what TV is for me, is Roku.
Anyway, and also we're on Roku, so check it out. So we'll have to see, they will still be
available. It is possible that this will spur them to look for other opportunities. I would
not expect that they're gonna be totally gone, and they're kind of freaking out about that actually.