“Last week, DirecTV announced it would be dropping the right-wing TV channel Newsmax from its lineup, which Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy called “a blatant act of political discrimination.” Pouring cold water on this accusation, DirecTV has since announced it will be replacing Newsmax's empty slot with a different right-wing channel, The First, whose on-air personalities include former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch and disgraced Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
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It’s not the first time Newsmax has taken swings at Fox, which it briefly competed against in the aftermath of the 2020 election. What's different this time around, however, is Newsmax’s dismal viewership. Responding earlier this month to a letter from more than 40 Republicans about DirecTV’s “deplatforming” of Newsmax, DirecTV general counsel Michael Hartman wrote, “We think that it is also important to keep our dispute with Newsmax in perspective. According to Nielsen, nationwide Newsmax’s average household audience is only 101,000 households, representing less than 0.1% of total TV households,” per The Daily Beast. "That is 92 percent lower than Fox News.” Fox has an audience of over 2.2 million. ”
— https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/newsmax-directv-fox
Boebert and Gaetz must think that they represent the interests of morons.
