In a 2020 deposition, a company accountant testified that lacking a contract with AT&T subsidiary DirecTV, the network's value "would be zero." Court documents showed the network promised to "cast a positive light" on AT&T during newscasts.
Reuters reported in October 2021 that it had reviewed court documents showing the network was created in 2013 at the urging of executives of AT&T, which has since been the source of up to 90% of the network's revenues. Herring said in 2013 that under OANN's agreement with The Washington Times, the new network could use any Times content, but was not obligated to do so he also said at the time that between 60 and 65 Herring Broadcasting employees spent "most of their days" on One America. The OANN channel originally debuted in partnership with The Washington Times, a conservative daily newspaper founded by the Unification Church from South Korea. OANN was announced on March 14, 2013, by Herring Networks, Inc., an independent media company founded in 2003 by conservative businessman Robert Herring, Sr. The channel is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Trump himself has promoted both the network and some of its hosts.
The network's prime-time political talk shows have a conservative perspective, and the channel has described itself as one of the "greatest supporters" of Donald Trump. testified in court that the network was created at the urging of executives of AT&T, which through its subsidiary DirecTV has since been the source of up to 90% of the network's revenues. By July 2022, the network was available only to a few hundred thousand people who subscribed to smaller cable providers. The company said in 2019 OANN was available in 35 million homes and that its audience ranged from 150,000 to as large as 500,000, though that year Nielsen Media Research estimated its viewership to be about 14,000. The network is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., and New York City. and owned by Herring Networks, Inc., that launched on July 4, 2013. One America News Network ( OANN), also known as One America News ( OAN), is a far-right, pro- Trump cable news and political opinion channel founded by Robert Herring Sr.
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