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Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:03 AM May 2020

trump TV network?? FT

The last thing I will tolerate is seeing trump on the TV every night on his newly created network and I am not talking about FOX.
He wants his own and is already investing. When trump loses the election he better be in jail, not on any show spouting lies night after night. THIS madness has got to stop somewhere.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-is-really-aiming-to-take-down-fox

Don Jr. have been looking to buy a station for Trump TV,” said one source briefed on the talks. “This is all about building a Fox competitor. Trump is really aiming to take down Fox,” the person briefed on the deal told me. “The Herrings have no agreements in place, written or oral, to sell any stake of its business or interest in OAN to any party,” Charles P. Herring, president of Herring Networks, OANN’s parent company, said in a letter after this article was published. (A person close to Hicks said he resigned his position from the family business when he joined the RNC and isn’t involved in an OANN deal).


Trump now is on the verge of having that alternative. According to sources, an investor group aligned with his son Don Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family is in negotiations to acquire a major stake in One America News Network, the fledgling conservative cable-news channel that features hosts like Jack Posobiec, a chief promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy. “[RNC co-chair] Tommy Hicks and Don Jr. have been looking to buy a station for Trump TV,” said one source briefed on the talks. “This is all about building a Fox competitor. Trump is really aiming to take down Fox,” the person briefed on the deal told me. “The Herrings have no agreements in place, written or oral, to sell any stake of its business or interest in
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Alex4Martinez

(2,180 posts)
2. A Trump OAN channel would make Fox look mile, by contrast.
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:12 AM
May 2020

Can you imagine?

This is so crazy it must be true.

TXPaganBanker

(210 posts)
3. OANN is for people that think Fox is too liberal
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:15 AM
May 2020

My father's girlfriend got him watching it for a time. He'd watch it, and come off angry at everything. A week ago, they had yet another story where they were shilling hydroxychloroquine, after studies that showed that it was at best ineffective and at worst raised the mortality rate. He was absolutely gobsmacked and hasn't watched it since.

NCDem47

(2,238 posts)
4. Like gum on a shoe, we'll never get rid of this guy until he dies.
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:19 AM
May 2020

There will always be pricks who are part of this world we live in.

He thinks he can be another Bloomberg.

NCDem47

(2,238 posts)
8. Love 'em or hate 'em, they actually built TANGIBLE things
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:49 AM
May 2020

Not spending their lives inheriting money (then lossing) or borrowing money (then loosing) and wrapping it branding and marketing bullshit that doesn't amount to anything.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
6. I hope the Trumps stake everything on this because
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:35 AM
May 2020

it sounds like an idiotic folly that's going to do what all Trump endeavors do: fail.

It won't exactly endear him to Fox either.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
7. Everything Trump touches dies.
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:42 AM
May 2020

That will include "Trump TV", should it ever come to pass. And, it will take down The Propaganda Channel right along with it.

NCDem47

(2,238 posts)
9. If this comes to pass...
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:54 AM
May 2020

WITH loosing the White House and evading prison, nobody should watch. It's just that simple. It will be one of those really, really bad channels on a cable packages with 200+ channels that you never even go close to or skip over.

Sure, other knuckleheads will tune in, but it will register viewers in the low thousands, making it a non-entity. Trump will bamboozle some other billionaire to bankroll.

jimfields33

(15,474 posts)
10. None of the news cable channels do particularly well
Mon May 18, 2020, 11:18 AM
May 2020

I mean most get 3.5 million per show if they are lucky. If there’s a real major event like a debate, they may get 10 million. Not exactly earth shattering.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
11. To me this is a toss up...
Mon May 18, 2020, 11:25 AM
May 2020

is it just another scam...

or is it the plan to continue to disseminate Trump fascism after he loses in Nov.

if he loses, I expect Trump to continue his rallies in one shape or another, as well as take on the far right speaking circuit.

Why not a cable channel where he can continue to hawk his merch and propaganda.

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