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One America News Network

U.S. right (pro-Trump)

Owned byPrivately owned by Herring Networks, Inc., a San Diego company founded in 2003 by Robert Herring Sr. The Herring family controls it. Herring Networks also runs the AWE channel.
FundingMainly the owner's private money, plus carriage fees from cable and satellite distributors and some advertising. It is not publicly traded, and its finances have not been fully disclosed. It has lost distribution, such as DirecTV, over the years, and I did not verify its current revenue.
On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

OAN launched on July 4, 2013, through a partnership between Herring Networks and The Washington Times. It was positioned as a conservative alternative to larger cable news channels. Internal emails reported in 2017 indicated that Herring directed the channel to push Trump's candidacy, play down stories such as police shootings and Russian aggression, and steer away from problems for the new president. Trump praised the network during his first term, and it became a prominent outlet for his supporters. After the 2020 election, OAN aired false claims about voting machines and fraud. Smartmatic sued Herring Networks for defamation in 2021, and the case settled in April 2024 on undisclosed terms. Newsmax, a rival network, paid $40 million to settle a similar Smartmatic suit. Media-bias raters and critics describe OAN as strongly right-leaning, with a record of promoting conspiracy theories. It remains much smaller than Fox News and Newsmax.

Sources

  1. One America News Network (Wikipedia)
  2. Herring Networks (Wikipedia)
  3. Robert Herring (businessman) (Wikipedia)
  4. OAN and Smartmatic settle election defamation case (CNN)
  5. Voting machine company Smartmatic and OANN settle defamation suit (NBC News)
  6. One America News Network - Bias and Credibility (Media Bias/Fact Check)
  7. Newsmax agreed to pay $40 million to settle Smartmatic's 2020 election defamation lawsuit (CNN)

Profile compiled 2026-10-16; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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