DIRECTV, DIRECTV Stream and U-verse last night lost the conservative news channel, Newsmax, in a carriage row and the reaction from Newsmax viewers and non-viewers is fast and furious. Twitter is already heavily populated with comments from both sides of the issue. For example, here are some tweets from Newsmax supporters who say DIRECTV is showing a liberal bias:
“1st O.A.N.N, Now Newsmax. I’ve had enough. All patriots, we need to cancel @ATT and @DIRECTV,” tweets @windyhillguy.
“I’ll be letting them go today as well.. if I can watch newsmax app for free as direct tv suggested.. why do I need direct TV..oh yeah..I don’t,” adds ‘hereforthelaughs.’
“Biased corporate decision!!!!,” writes Dan Shiner.
“@DIRECTV you can cancel OAN & Newsmax but we will still not watch @CNN @MSNBC @CBS @ABC narrative of destroying #USA #AmericaFirst start the layoffs how many people will cancel their accounts,” tweets Joe Hart.
I woke up today and Newsmax was gone I am ripping mad so as soon as Direct TV office opens up I will be canceling my subscription and as soon as I get out I will canceling my ATT account even though I still have a year on my account for my phone
— Chris Verbiski (@cverbiski) January 25, 2023
https://twitter.com/Emily800014621/status/1618228304573788160?s=20&t=pTLH_Agaxv4h2FYLIg3f5Q
@DIRECTV @NEWSMAX Wow, DirecTV, first you cancel OAN, now NewsMax while you keep CNN and their sucky ratings? It's time to cancel you!
— Toodizzy4thiscrap (@toodizzytoday1) January 25, 2023
This is censorship!
— LandShark (@BCOBB1925) January 25, 2023
So @DIRECTV really did cancel @NEWSMAX … Now I need to find another cable station cuz I don't want to watch @FoxNews or any other liberal garbage so-called news station. Anybody know any suggestions?
— BrattsDailyB*tch (@callmebratt2) January 25, 2023
I dropped @directv years ago because of their agenda
— Albear (@albear67) January 25, 2023
But some Twitter users are defending DIRECTV today, saying the company has a right to carry whatever it wants:
“A business made a business decision. Happens every day. It’s not illegal. If you disagree with it, find another TV provider. That too happens every day,” tweets ‘Swinny.’
“Newsmax wants DirecTV to pay to carry them. The problem is, their primetime audience averages 125k. “Additionally, the same programming offered by Newsmax today is already available at no charge to 100% of U.S. households including our customers,” writes ‘Ladysnark.’
“Communism would be if the GOVERNMENT forced DirecTV to keep broadcasting Newsmax outside of their consent, or if the removal came from the government demanding it. Neither of those things are happening here,” writes ‘Cosmic Rewind.’
But it doesn’t. Directv is a private company. They can pick n choose who they want. We as consumers can choose not to pick them as a provider. 1A is about government restrictions.
— DBlock (@drob778508) January 25, 2023
https://twitter.com/AWilliams850/status/1618219847313412097?s=20&t=pTLH_Agaxv4h2FYLIg3f5Q
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Oh the babies… lol. Can they all just get together and fund their own media distribution network? Oh yeah, combined brain power of a pumpkin that someone still didn’t take off their front porch and it’s already January.
When you sign up for a 2-year contract with DirecTV you are blindsided by them cancelling a popular channel you like and again for what reason?! So don’t give me that they can choose what they show BS when I am stuck without it now till my contract runs out.
Newsmax TV is a television channel in the United States launched on June 16, 2014. Newsmax is currently the 70th most popular channel on TV, watched by a total number of 113,000 people (down -20% from last week) during primetime, as of the average weekly audience measurement for the period ending January 22, 2023. Go cry in a corner somewhere. Then go spend some time in a library, it appears you missed out when you were a child.
Overall, Fox News Channel finished the year with an average prime time audience of 2.33 million viewers, well ahead of MSNBC (1.208 million viewers) and CNN (730,000 viewers). Fox News was down just 1% from 2021, while MSNBC declined 21% and CNN dropped a massive 33%.Dec 15, 2022.
Overall, Fox News Channel finished the year with an average prime time audience of 2.33 million viewers, well ahead of MSNBC (1.208 million viewers) and CNN (730,000 viewers). Fox News was down just 1% from 2021, while MSNBC declined 21% and CNN dropped a massive 33%.Dec 15, 2022
I’m just glad Rupert Murdoch had to sit through depositions on his media lies, hopefully Dominion gets the full monetary award they are working towards in the courts. Even Hannity, Carlson, Pirro and others admitted that they knew the election lies were exactly that – LIES!
Show me the math, how you consider Newsmax “popular” – it’s simple math. Take a look at Faux News. They are on cable TV and online on many platforms.. Since they are all over the place, not everyone needs to subscribe to their YouTube channel.. Hence they only have around 10 million subscribers. Newsmax, which is struggling to cover all the same bases, would end up having a higher percentage of followers resorting to YouTube, yet they still only have 2 million viewers there.. You are perfectly able to access this free source for your NewsMax, so stop being a crybaby, for one.. Second – this pretty much proves that NewsMax is clearly NOT as popular as you might think, it’s a fringe extremist network that most sane people avoid, hence they don’t have the negotiating power with cable providers to negotiate, and they simply wanted too much for their not so popular programming. DirecTV was more than willing to keep them at the existing pricing, but NewsMax refused. Silly Trumpers.. He lost. Now go home and brush that tooth.
If Directv, and the media circus think by silencing all conservative networks, we will go away, think again!
The average regular season NBA game pulls anywhere from 1.4 million to 3.03 million viewers, depending on the network it’s aired on. In 2022, meanwhile, the WNBA averaging 379,000 viewers per game.
despite the major difference in viewers , the wnba still is shown on major networks.
All voices must be heard on both sides politically
Lol oh child, that’s like the controversy between intelligent design and evolution. There’s no “both sides” when one side is all fiction. There are still right leaning media sources that don’t go all out cray cray on the conspiracy theories.. Wall Street Journal is one, except when you go to their Opinion pages. Try out some other sources that don’t outright lie to you!
p.s. He lost, Trumper. now go home and brush that tooth!
Problem with the left and very upsetting!
They think they are out smarting everyone with the woke crowd.
But in reality I want to see their faces win it’s all gone.
I live without society just fine, and it amuses me because I know the woke crowd will disappear as soon as their self inflicted tyranny is set in place.
Yes I can skin a buck.
So go home and comb your hair no free meals here.
He may have lost But you are just loven those Gas prices aren’t ya. Both sides of the political spectrum needs to be heard period