Robert Herring, the owner and CEO of One America News Network said that it was actually AT&T that came to him to fund a conservative network alternative. "I have worked with AT&T and one capacity or another starting when I was 20 years old," he says.
A cable news network tailor-made for the former president is getting canceled. The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona chronicles the demise of One America News.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, edited by Matt Collette and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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