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Newsmax was demanding more money for the rights to their chann, so Direct TV was like bye
Free market gonna free market
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^THIS
Newsmax didn't charge Direct TV to carry the network in prior years. They decided to charge a fee starting this year.
Direct TV replied that it wasn't economically feasible to get charged to carry the network when it was available free on their own website and on YouTube.
With 103,000 average viewers per day, Direct TV didn't think they would be able to pass the cost along to customers when they had two free options available to them.
Newsmax paints this as a suppression of free speech, but it's no more than an economic decision.
Many don't know this, but AT&T exec's actually grub staked the OAN network when it was created, so AT&T is far from a "woke" leftist company.
This is pure economics.