# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4134
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4134 "2022-01-16T03:28:36Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > It doesn’t say whether it is also being dropped from U-verse. . . . It’s hard to keep up with who-owns-who, as these companies buy and sell one another like kids trading baseball cards. I googled, trying to find if U-Verse is dropping OANN too. I found, instead, some old articles (from about two years ago) saying tha AT&T is phasing out U-Verse. I didn’t follow that line to research to see what’s happened with that since. Separately, I found this _current_ article saying that AT&T has sold controlling interest in DirectTV to someone else, and it appears to be those new owners who are now giving OANN the heave-ho. Note the phrase “the formerly AT&T-run TV service” in the preview here: > **[OANN and Done? DirecTV to Dump One America News](https://www.pcmag.com/news/oann-and-done-directv-to-dump-one-america-news)** > > The Trump-worshipping channel relies heavily on the formerly AT&T-run TV service. > [@](#): > > DirecTV’s decision to dump OANN may reflect the service’s new management. After seeing its pay-TV subscriber totals [plunge](https://www.pcmag.com/news/cord-cuttings-latest-toll-134-million-legacy-pay-tv-subscribers-gone) from 21 million in 2016 to an estimated 15 million last year, AT&T [unloaded](https://www.fiercevideo.com/financial/at-t-has-finalized-its-deal-to-sell-directv) a controlling stake in DirecTV to the private-equity firm TPG Capital. And now the new bosses there seem to have a different mindset about continuing to prop up OANN. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537)._