Overmyer Network
The Overmyer Network was the product of a failed attempt to create a fourth national
television network in the
United States. Businessman
Daniel Overmeyer started the service in
1967, hiring former
ABC-TV programmer
Oliver Treyz, and transmissions were started on
May 1. It was renamed
The United Network when new financing was deemed necessary to pay affiliates for clearance of their one original program,
The Las Vegas Show hosted by
Bill Dana, and to pay for the transmission lines in these earliest days of satellite technology.
The hype surrounding the new network was very large, but it failed after less than a month on the air. No new national commercial networks would be created until
October 9,
1986, when
FOX began transmissions and
Channel America began putting together its slate of low-power television (
LPTV) stations.
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