 A power struggle ensued, with Sutton persuading the network's board to force out Weyrich in a hostile takeover.With Weyrich gone, under Sutton, the channel abandoned its conservative identity, marketing itself merely as a non-ideological forum for the public to make its views known to policymakers, akin to the call-in programs on C-SPAN.However, the network retained four conservative programs funded by the FCF and a few remaining supporters, but it had to pay to retain them.