The Overmyer Network was the product of a failed attempt to create a fourth national television network in the United States. Businessman Daniel Overmyer started the service in 1967, 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 1986, when FOX began transmissions and Channel America began putting together its slate of low-power television (LPTV) stations.
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