{"id":1352766,"date":"2022-03-01T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352766"},"modified":"2022-03-01T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:22:55","slug":"directv-drops-russia-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/directv-drops-russia-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Drops Russia Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdirectv-drops-russia-today%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-dtv-rt.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>DirecTV, which recently announced that they would <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/directv-to-drop-oan-from-channel-lineup\">drop One America News<\/a> from their offerings, has announced that they will be dropping RT, Russian broadcasting, as well. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/directv-rt-america-russia-ukraine-ef196f77-1929-4d94-9c42-2fccc915f7ed.html\">According<\/a> to <em>Axios<\/em>, US television distributors are &#8220;facing increased pressure to remove Russian state media from their platforms.&#8221; Dish, which is a competitor to DirecTV, has not moved to pull RT as of yet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;In line with our previous agreement with RT America,&#8221; DirecTV said in a statement, &#8220;we are accelerating this year&#8217;s contract expiration timeline and will no longer offer their programming effective immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>This is part of a broader push to silence Russian media across the US and Europe. The European Commission said in a statement the RT would be banned, calling it &#8220;the Kremlin&#8217;s media machine.&#8221; Google, TikTok, Facebook, Microsoft, and Roku have all banned RT, and are further restricting access to that content.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The National Association of Broadcasters has stated that US broadcasting companies should &#8220;cease carrying any state-sponsored programming with ties to the Russian government or its agents.&#8221; In so doing, they referenced &#8220;the unprovoked aggression exhibited by Russia against the free and sovereign people of Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DirecTV, which recently announced that they would drop One America News from their offerings, has announced that they will be dropping RT, Russian broadcasting, as well. According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}