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One America News Network (OANN), also known as One America News (OAN), is a far-right,[17] pro-Trump[27] cable channel founded by Robert Herring Sr. and owned by Herring Networks, Inc., that launched on July 4, 2013.[32] The network is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The company said in 2019 OANN was available in 35 million homes and that its audience ranged from 150,000 to as large as 500,000, though that year Nielsen Media Research estimated its viewership to be about 14,000.[33][34] Reuters reported in October 2021 that Robert Herring Sr. testified in court that the network was created at the urging of executives of AT&T, which through its subsidiary DirecTV has since been the source of up to 90% of the network’s revenues.[2]
Its prime-time political talk shows have a conservative perspective, and the channel has described itself as one of the “greatest supporters” of Donald Trump.[35] Trump himself has promoted both the network and some of its hosts.[39] The channel is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.[49] In November 2020, YouTube suspended OANN for one week and ended its ability to monetize its existing content as a first strike under its three-strike community guideline violation policy for advertising a false cure for COVID-19.[47] In 2021, the channel was sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic for promoting false claims that the companies had engaged in election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.[50][51]
DirecTV dropped the channel when its contract expired on April 5, 2022.[52] It had already said in January that it would not renew the contract with Herring Networks, affecting One America News Network and its sister channel AWE, which would be removed from DirecTV’s satellite and U-verse TV services.
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