DIRECTV dropping OANN?

Our household feels the same way.  Get rid of OANN and you get rid of us.

We are a 15+ year AT&T customer and now you will be losing our TV subscription, our Internet and our Cell phone.  

I hope it's worth it.

I hope it's worth it.  You will invest money on channels we are not asking for and force the sports and entertainment channels on us but you WON'T give us the channel we want.  

Let's see how that works for you.  Not only are you losing a customer, we are going to be switching to your competition.  

I encourage everyone to make your voices heard.  A service technician told me they are required to log calls and complaints.  Flood them with our voice and displeasure at losing OAN!

Our household feels the same way.  They are silencing the OAN voice.  I don't see anything happening to CNN or MSNBC!  Garbage TV.  

We are a 15+ year AT&T customer and if OAN goes away we will pull our DirectTV subscription, our Internet and our Cell phone. 

If Dish or another provider is smart they will offer OAN because many of us will migrate there!

We are one small voice but we are not going to stand by and take this.  

I encourage everyone to make your voices heard.  A service technician told me they are required to log calls and complaints.  Flood them with our voice and displeasure at losing OAN!

It's good to know my family isn't alone!

It was for us too. The last day OAN is going to be broadcast on DirecTV is April 4, 2022. For that reason our subscription to DirecTV is ending on the 6th. We called the Retention/Loyalty Department with our decision. DirecTV has been our provider since they purchased Primestar. Of course they made a very nice offer to keep us but we declined. Dropping OANN is the dealbreaker for us. 

It’s definitely happening. April 4 is the last day. Bye, bye.

Do you need a safe place? Snowflake. 

Many of us have already cancelled. 

With our savings we're going to buy a bridge for the (Edited per community guidelines). 

Its all about keeping some political narrative.   

Read the letter to the CEO of AT&T from Congress member, Anna G. Eshoo. It is found on her official website. Why is Congress getting involved?

Read main forum which they just closed as it had too many complaints and they could not handle it.  

https://forums.directv.com/conversations/community-lounge/directv-dropping-oann/61e2fc1ff693d71b8f6f5cac?page=88

Customers have started to received emails and DIRECTV officially announced the reason is OAN spreads disinformation.  Well I think the owner of CNN and DIRECTV (AT&T) needs to looks themselves in the mirror before accusing a legitimate news source of spreading disinformation.  

VIP502    Yep. You are absolutely right. The fees for OAN are SUBSTANTIALLY LESS than any other network. The Direct TV is bowing down to political pressure because they don't like what is being said.  Yet they keep cnn (so many (Edited per community guidelines)ual assault issues and worse, TWO well involved in the network production pedophiles who were grooming and paying for young girls aged around NINE YEARS old), and nbc who had brian williams who lied so many times like in a helicopter shot down etc, and authenticated hillary's fake story of running after landing during gun fire, .  And the continued lies of the steele dossier where the other networks just reported without verifying. Proved false. Yet the networks still propagandize it. Dropping OAN is NOT about BUSINESS or FEES. And doing so will costs them BUSINESS and their reputation.

https://mcnerney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-mcnerney-eshoo-urge-tv-companies-to-address-spread-of   Letter regarding Politicians censoring of news they don't like

and the actual letter. 

https://mcnerney.house.gov/sites/mcnerney.house.gov/files/McNerney-Eshoo%20TV%20Misinfo%20Letters%20-%202.22.21.pdf

OAN is another baloney generator like Faux News. TRumpanzees are crying that they are leaving DTV Stream but they are mentally flawed like their leader IQ45. 

No need to create multiple threads. Closing this thread.

Many of us here are extremely disappointed. 

Is Newsmax next?

Follow a link named "eshoo/mcnerney" that 

@ElmerFudd79 has posted.

It's very telling. 

Being straggled by poor service and product is awful. I moved from a city that great service to where I am now. Had two choices, att was one. It had terrible buffering issues, and long wait times get any help or someone on the phone. Then the 'special "  ads for $200 debit card arrived AFTER the expiration date and was told basically "too bad". Then of course, the costs went up A LOT . So I am saving money dropping direct-tv soon. I will miss some shows but I will enjoy the $150 savings. If I move again I will definitely make sure what provider is available. If limited to att as a choice, Nope, not buying there.

Regardless of the reason for the decision, it was DirecTV's to make. We as individual customers naturally do not have the option to speak to "someone in power" as it is not our place at the negotiating table between networks and the TV provider or to dictate what they are allowed to do.

Networks package those channels to the TV providers, resulting in that being the standard across the board. We as customers can pick the best fitting package and go from there. If you don't like any of the options then you seek elsewhere.

If you want OANN, you go with someone else. You want to have direct influence on the decision or see internal proprietary information, then you get a job with them. As customers we may have influence, but we do not own them.

Cancelling my Account when directv cancels OAN

Hey Jup, if we all shut down our accounts direct would listen $$$$ talks

Since they have been continuing ahead with their decision, apparently, they expect the closed accounts will be within acceptable losses. Time will tell if they calculated that correctly.

But if you want to shut down your account, then call them. Telling other forum users does nothing on your account.

We spoke with a very nice representative from the Retention/Loyalty Department. We explained our disappointment with DirecTV canceling OANN and said that is the reason we are cancelling our subscription to DirecTV. We are still customers until April 6. In our conversation we also stated that we really like DirecTV and hate to go but their decision to drop OANN is the deal breaker for us. Our service has been with DirecTV since Primestar, if anyone here remembers that. 

The contract is not being renewed.  It was announced in mid-January.  Some of us are leaving DirecTV over it and some have already left.  You may want to look into streaming services, KlowdTV, or the OAN streaming service itself.  It appears after April 4 that OAN and AWE won't be available on DTV anymore. 

Most of the comments are being merged into the original thread where we were discussing this matter and it appears any new threads are being merged here too. https://forums.directv.com/conversations/community-lounge/directv-dropping-oann/61e2fc1ff693d71b8f6f5cac

And comment quickly. It appears that OAN threads are being closed.

@Catskills_Dan they can't handle the truth! 🤣

@SuzeP1245 

Certainly not. The greatest disservice they do to themselves is taking what they've been told as gospel and not doing their homework. 

AT&T owns CNN and has ties to Dominion so it's no surprise that when OAN's contract is up, they're gone. 

@Moseslinda 

DirecTV, along with DIRECTV STREAM have decided to not renew the carriage agreement with OANN. I believe that the existing agreement ends April 4, 2022. Whether the channel shuts off that day, or simply not on the following day, I am not sure.