One America News Network

One America News Network (OANN), also known as One America News (OAN), is a far-right,^[17] pro-Trump^[26] cable news and political opinion commentary channel founded by Robert Herring Sr. and owned by Herring Networks, Inc., that launched on July 4, 2013.^[31] The network is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

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.^[29][6] By July 2022, the network was available only to a few hundred thousand people who subscribed to smaller cable providers.^[32]

In 2019, Robert Herring Sr. 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.^[2] DirecTV stopped carrying OANN in 2022.^[33]

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.^[34] Trump himself has promoted both the network and some of its hosts.^[38]