Conservative news outlets Newsmax and One America News Network (OAN) are weighing the possibility of hiring media personality Tucker Carlson after his surprise departure from rival network Fox News Channel. OAN issued a statement saying that its executives want to meet with Carlson, whose last appearance on Fox took place on April 21. “One America…

Newsmax and DirecTV announced on March 22 they have reached an agreement to bring back the conservative cable news and opinion network. Newsmax channel will return to DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse on March 23. “Newsmax recognizes and appreciates that DirecTV clearly supports diverse voices, including conservative ones,” said Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy in a…

DirecTV and its parent company AT&T are being accused of political censorship after they dropped conservative TV station Newsmax from the platform. This comes after the network similarly dropped OAN, another conservative outlet. According to Christopher Ruddy, president and CEO of Newsmax, this is both an act of censorship and of political discrimination. We speak…

DirecTV and its parent company AT&T are being accused of political censorship after they dropped conservative TV station Newsmax from the platform. This comes after the network similarly dropped OAN, another conservative outlet. According to Christopher Ruddy, president and CEO of Newsmax, this is both an act of censorship and of political discrimination. We speak…

DirecTV and its parent company AT&T are being accused of political censorship after they dropped conservative TV station Newsmax from the platform. This comes after the network similarly dropped OAN, another conservative outlet. According to Christopher Ruddy, president and CEO of Newsmax, this is both an act of censorship and of political discrimination. We speak…

Commentary Almost daily now, Americans see new evidence of a mass, public-private censorship regime—part and parcel of something resembling an American social credit system in which those who submit to ruling class orthodoxy are rewarded, and those who run afoul of it are railroaded. So when news broke recently that DirecTV was booting center-right network…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Congress should investigate AT&T-owned DirecTV over its decision to drop conservative channel Newsmax. “I think there should be no ideological litmus test when you have these big companies that have the decision to make or break a news network, or any type of network,” DeSantis said on Jan. 31. “They…

Millions of DirecTV subscribers no longer have access to Newsmax programming after the AT&T-owned satellite giant and the conservative news network failed to reach a new carriage deal. The official deadline passed at midnight on Tuesday. As a result, Newsmax’s programs went to a blackout for more than 13 million customers of the satellite service,…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest to express alarm over broadcaster DirecTV’s decision to drop conservative channel Newsmax, a move he criticized as an “arbitrary use of power.” DirecTV removed the network overnight on Jan. 24 after its contract with Newsmax expired, blocking an estimated more than 13 million customer base from seeing…

Republican members of Congress are calling on DirecTV to not drop the conservative news network Newsmax from its channel lineup as the satellite provider did to One America News (OAN) last year. Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), along with 41 Republican colleagues, said in a letter that there are reasons to believe DirecTV is “moving to…