![]() One America News Network Chief White House Correspondent Trey Yingst asks a question of President Donald Trump during a news conference in the East Room of the White House August 28, 2017. Wealth TV also partially made its name with a live professional boxing event aired in 2011 and a pay-per-view fight in 2012. He refused and Schiavo died in 2005 after her feeding tube was removed. ![]() ![]() Robert Herring offered $1 million to Schiavo's husband to stop trying to get her off life support. Herring's touch on the channel appeared in its first year in a two-hour special on Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had spent half her life in a vegetative state and became the face of the right-to-die debate. He established Herring Broadcasting and first launched Wealth TV in 2004, a cable channel which churned out shows that exhibited luxe lifestyles of the rich and famous and included a few occasional newscasts in a format inspired by networks like Fox News and MSNBC, according to the Washington Post. The Washington Post reported that upon his retirement, his insomnia allowed him ample time to watch television, which eventually inspired his move into the industry. won $122 million by selling the family's circuit board printing business, Herco Technology. Nick Wass/Invision for BFI-Good News Source One America/AP Images Robert and Charles Herring Founders of One America pose for a picture at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday March 14, 2013, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The lawsuits are part of a larger campaign of legal action against far-right media channels known for spreading baseless theories, including Trump-favorite Newsmax.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. OAN is currently being sued by the election machine technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion, which accuse the channel of defaming them in its coverage that suggested the companies helped facilitate election fraud. OAN didn't broadcast President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021, and instead aired a pro-Trump segment called "Trump: Legacy of a Patriot." Trump championed the platform, and it continued to spread other right-wing conspiracy theories, including anti-vaccine rhetoric. OAN, which began in 2013, rose to prominence around the 2020 election when it was one of a few outlets to aggressively support Trump and parrot baseless claims of election fraud. Verizon has over 3 million cable subscribers, and without access to its service the number of homes with OAN available on their television will likely drop to under a million, leaving niche cable providers one of the only remaining ways to watch the channel, according to The New York Times. In reply to the news, OAN host Pearson Sharp lashed out at Verizon during a segment earlier this week, saying the provider was "like many radical, Marxist organizations" that's "more interested in discriminating against independent voices than being a diversity leader." OAN, which is based in San Diego and owned by Herring Networks, will no longer be watchable on Verizon/Fios TV after July 30. Verizon announced OAN's termination in a content update on its website, saying it was "unable to reach an agreement to continue carrying One America News (OAN)" but did not provide other details. ![]() OAN losing access to Verizon's Fios' television services could be a severe, even deadening knock to the far-right channel that was one of the largest and most influential promoters of the false claim that Trump was cheated out of victory in the 2020 presidential election. Following AT&T's DirecTV dropping OAN earlier this year, this removal could mean OAN's viewership dwindles dramatically without any other large provider. Verizon announced that it's dropping pro-Trump channel One America News (OAN) from its services at the end of this week. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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