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One America News

U.S. far-right

Owned byHerring Networks, Inc., a privately held San Diego media company founded and controlled by Robert Herring Sr. (CEO), with his son Charles Herring as president
FundingCable/satellite carriage and advertising revenue, plus streaming; the Herring family has also personally funded the network, which has operated at a loss for years and relies on the family's wealth from Skyview Networks/electronics businesses
On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

Founded in 2013 by Robert Herring Sr., OAN launched as a conservative alternative to Fox News and built close ties to the Trump White House during his first term, with Trump frequently praising and promoting it. The network gained notoriety for amplifying false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, which led to defamation lawsuits from voting-technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems and from former Dominion employee Eric Coomer; OAN has faced significant legal costs and some settlements/rulings against it over these claims. Its business was long dependent on carriage by AT&T's DirecTV, which supplied the bulk of its revenue until DirecTV dropped the channel in April 2022 amid declining viewership and advertiser pressure, prompting a $1 billion lawsuit from OAN against AT&T/DirecTV. Several former OAN journalists and producers have publicly described editorial pressure to favor pro-Trump narratives and avoid negative Trump coverage. Fact-checking and media-bias organizations have repeatedly rated OAN as a low-credibility, highly partisan source prone to conspiracy theories and misinformation. In the current Trump administration, OAN continues to produce friendly, largely uncritical coverage, including exclusive interviews with Trump and sympathetic framing of his policies, while its overall audience and distribution remain much smaller than larger conservative outlets like Fox News or Newsmax.

Sources

  1. One America News Network - Wikipedia
  2. Who Owns OANN? All About the Conservative News Network
  3. One America News Network (OAN) - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  4. DirecTV drops Trump-friendly One America News
  5. One America News Network - Media Matters
  6. OAN to Air Exclusive Sit-Down Interview with President Donald J. Trump

Profile compiled 2026-10-01; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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