• The United Network, known prior to launch as the Overmyer Network, was a short lived attempt at a fourth television network in the United States that operated...
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  • Daniel Harrison Overmyer (December 6, 1924 – July 24, 2012) was an American businessman, warehouse mogul, and television broadcaster. During the height...
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  • Overmyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amanda Overmyer (born c. 1984), American rock singer-songwriter Arthur W. Overmyer (1879–1952)...
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    as National Telefilm Associates [and its NTA Film Network] and the Overmyer Network). From 1954 to 1970, National Educational Television was the national...
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  • digital television service, later called ITV Digital Overmyer Network, a former US television network On (Ancient Egypt), a Hebrew form of the ancient Egyptian...
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  • network. On July 12, 1966, warehouse entrepreneur Daniel H. Overmyer announced the launch of the Overmyer Network (ON), to be built around Overmyer's...
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    component stations bought a stake in the Overmyer Network in 1967 (resulting in a branding change to "The United Network"), but other than a single late-night...
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  • August 2012. Kellner, C.A. (Spring 1969). "The Rise and Fall of the Overmyer Network". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 13 (2): 125–130. doi:10...
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    inactive UHF TV permits to build them, sell them, or forfeit them, Daniel H. Overmyer acquired the station in 1965 as part of a projected independent station...
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    Barbara Morton Overmyer; it was to have been one of the owned-and-operated stations of the new Overmyer Network, (later United Network), which folded...
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  • American television networks: DuMont Television Network Fourth television network Overmyer Network (1966) Hughes Television Network (1960s–1970s; occasional...
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    from the major networks not already seen in the market and was the local affiliate for the short-lived United Network, which Overmyer helped start, in...
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    The earliest attempt at launching channel 45 was in 1968, when the Overmyer Network/United planned to launch the station as KJDO-TV. In February 1980,...
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  • would be called the Overmyer Network. Overmyer hired Treyz to head the new network. The Overmyer Network debuted as the United Network on May 1, 1967. Unfortunately...
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  • Marsh, Earle (October 16, 2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 709...
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    KBAY-TV to Overmyer Communications Company, a broadcaster owned by Daniel H. Overmyer, who would later start the short-lived Overmyer Network (later called...
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  • affiliate of the United Network (also known as the Overmyer Network), a short-lived attempt to create a fourth commercial television network nationally. During...
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  • May 1 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. Overmyer Network launches. It would shut down a month later. May 2 – Armed members of...
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  • WXIX-TV (category Grit (TV network) affiliates)
    and announced that the new station would be affiliated with the new Overmyer Network once it started. Civic leaders in Newport objected, to no avail, to...
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    Multi-millionaire industrialist Daniel H. Overmyer announced the creation of the Overmyer Network, a fourth U.S. television network that would compete with CBS, NBC...
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    the United Network (also known as the Overmyer Network), a short-lived attempt to create a fourth national commercial television network; it was one...
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  • is an American drama television series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that aired on HBO. The series premiered on April 11, 2010, and concluded...
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  • failure of the United Network after one month, with 23 episodes broadcast and two unaired episodes. When entrepreneur Daniel H. Overmyer and former ABC president...
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    Channel 24 was also announced to be the Baltimore outlet for the Overmyer Network when it debuted. WMET-TV, Baltimore's fourth TV station and its first...
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    24; in 1966, a construction permit was issued for KWIS, a proposed Overmyer Network station that never came to fruition. Another UHF station was not built...
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  • 6–7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. May 1 – The United Network (initially known as the Overmyer Network) launches broadcasting with the talk/variety show The...
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    Lamar Hunt to acquire the ABC network in 1968, having previously purchased video equipment from the failed Overmyer Network. MacArthur, then 76, announced...
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  • thriller film directed by Jeff Bleckner. The teleplay by Larry Gross and Eric Overmyer is an updated adaptation of the classic 1954 film of the same name directed...
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  • television series developed by Michael Connelly, Tom Bernardo and Eric Overmyer. A sequel to the Amazon Prime Video series Bosch (2014–2021), it stars...
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  • Las Vegas Show, a short-lived late night program from the ill-fated Overmyer Network that ran for a few weeks. On November 3, 1967, Mid-New York Broadcasting...
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