Ten state financial officers sent a letter to AT&T’s Board of Directors, first seen by Breitbart News, claiming the company may be violating its fiduciary duty to its shareholders by discriminating against conservative news outlets.
Nearly two dozen key Jewish community leaders from across the United States, representing millions of Jewish Americans, called for global telecommunications giant AT&T to “reconsider” its recent move to cancel Newsmax from its network lineup, citing the conservative news channel’s “fair coverage of Jewish issues and Israel,” while warning of the risk of losing “significant support from the Jewish community” as a result.
Republican senators and members of congress, along with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are taking AT&T’s DirecTV platform to task for kicking off the conservative news channel Newsmax.
DirecTV, the video programming platform owned by AT&T, suspended service to Newsmax today, cutting the conservative cable channel off from millions of American households. Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax, blasted the decision as a “blatant act of political discrimination and censorship.”
As Republicans gear up for hearings in Congress to investigate how Democrats colluded with AT&T to censor One America News Network (OAN) from DirecTV, attention may also fall on private equity fund TPG Capital, which owns a significant portion of DirecTV and has demonstrated left-wing bias in the past.
One America News (OAN) is at risk of being completely blacklisted by the corporate left after Verizon Fios, the largest pay-TV network still carrying OAN, effectively blaclisted the conservative channel following pressure from leftist advocacy groups.
More people cut the cable-satellite TV cord than ever before in 2020, which is pretty remarkable when you consider how the coronavirus kept everyone at home for most of the year.
CARACAS – It has been over a week since the U.S.-based cable company DirecTV ceased operations in Venezuela, unplugging ten million viewers — yours truly included.
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is launching a new internet-delivered TV service Monday as it struggles with a shrinking DirecTV satellite business.
NEW YORK (AP) — A business dispute took CBS off the air for millions of satellite television customers of DirecTV and AT&T U-verse on Saturday.
The NFL Network has decided to slash five television shows amidst a massive $20 million budget cut, according to the New York Post. Those cuts have also reportedly led to tension with some of the network’s key personalities.
Getting people to provide the service they said they were going to provide, seems to be an ongoing battle with the president. As the government enters its second week of shutdowns — and the president trying to get the legislative branch to serve the American people by providing them with the security they said they would provide — TMZ is reporting that President Trump is also at odds with another type of service provider.
Never let a little thing like declining ratings, a product in decline, and national public backlash, get in the way of making a buck. At least, that seems to be the message DirecTV is sending after the company raised prices for the NFL Sunday Ticket.
DirecTV is reportedly offering refunds of their Sunday Ticket packages to NFL fans offended by the recent #TakeAKnee protests.
The Department of Justice Wednesday sued DirecTV and its owner, AT&T, alleging antitrust collusion with competitors during contract negotiations to broadcast the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Television producer Byron Allen attended a pricey fundraiser for President Obama at the Beverly Hills home of actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry Thursday night—and used some questionable language while discussing corporate mergers with the president.
DirecTV has pulled a popular advertising campaign featuring actor Rob Lowe after cable company Comcast complained that many of the ads’ claims could not be supported by evidence.
