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The Omni Broadcasting Network (simply known as "Omni") is an over-the-air broadcast television network in the United States (not to be confused with the Canadian broadcast system Omni Television). The company's motto was "Less Edge and More Entertaining". After 10 years, Omni had a change of direction and ratings started to grow little by little.

History[]

2003-13: The first Decade[]

The Omni Broadcasting Network was launched in 2003 by Omni Holdings. Omni broadcast 60 hours of programming per week, 21 hours during prime time. The network primarily ran classic films, usually during late-night hours or on the weekends. Omni also offers a few original television series, "Thirteen O'Clock Theater", an umbrella title for old sci-fi and horror films in public domain shown at 1 a.m. ET. The network also showed older children's programming such as Birdz to meet E/I requirements. After 2013 and barely even getting any ratings at all, and the network deep in debt, Omni Holdings was ready to close down the network when Lucie Salhany, who was the CEO of UPN from 1995–97, formed a company with her husband, John Polcari, Jr, called JH Media. JH Media bought enough stock in Omni to become the majority owners of the network.

2013-Present: Change of Direction[]

One of Salhany's first moves was to change the programming and began offering 2 hours of prime-time programming filled with original programming. With JH Media producing the majority of the shows, Omni started a slow climb towards respectability. "Rome wasn't built in a day," Salhany said. "It takes time and patience, but Omni will be the most entertaining network on television." One of the first series that Omni picked up was a remake of the classic TV Western The Rifleman. After being passed by CBS in 2011, Chris Columbus, Robert Levy, Steven Gardner, and Arthur Gardner (related to original producers Levy-Gardner-Laven), who were executive producers to the series, started shopping around looking to see who will pick up the show, and Omni agreed. Another series that Omni picked up was Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, with Rob Caves as executive producers. Both series became smash hits and by the end of the 2013-14 season, Omni was finally turning a profit. In Fall 2014, Ronald D. Moore had some series that was passed by the major networks, and Omni was willing to put some of them on the schedule. One of them was another western remake. This time, The Wild, Wild West. Once again, Omni hit pay dirt, and with both The Rifleman and The Wild, Wild West airing on the same night (Friday night), Omni was finally able to make it out of the ratings basement.

Affiliates[]

Call Sign Channel/DT City State
CHOM 66.1 Toronto Ontario
CROMI-TV 69.1 Pearl City Seminole
DNOMI-DT 16.1 Portville Oreconsin
DYKON-DT 12.1 Mellingville Calikota
KASL 45.1 Lubbock TX
KCHB 16.2 Chickasha OK
KDCA 55.1 Denver CO
KDLC 17.1 Pineville MO
KECG 36.1 San Jose CA
KEFD 19.1 Wichita Falls/Lawton TX/OK
KELP 49.1 El Paso/Las Cruces TX/NM
KFSE 63.1 Yuma/El Centro AZ/CA
KHCT 28.1 Junction TX
KHDB 5.1 Brinson TX
KHJO 33.1 Albuquerque NM
KJIB 45.1 Houston TX
KKDL 49.1 Dallas TX
KLLC 36.1 Portland OR
KMEC 49.1 San Antonio TX
KOFR 49.1 Fresno CA
KMVH 31.1 Reno NV
KOLA 49.1 Los Angeles CA
KOTB 7.1 Dreton AZ
KOUT 65.1 Salt Lake City/Provo UT
KPHO 49.1 Phoenix AZ
KPVN 48.1 Flagstaff AZ
KPWZ 36.1 San Fatigo CA
KQGF 18.1 Tulsa OK
KQOK 40.1 Oklahoma City OK
KQRV 36.2 Kansas City MO/KS
KSJQ 22.1 Sprawl City TX
KTQH 14.1 Rapid City SD
KUFX 28.1 Seattle WA
KUHA 15.1 Unalaska AK
KUYZ 64.1 Valdez AK
KVNU 50.1 Amarillo TX
KWQF 6.1 Richardville OK
KWUR 44.1 Eloy AZ
KXBN 33.1 Tyson TX
KXEN 27.1 St. Louis MO
KYQP 38.1 Juneau AK
KZCV 35.1 Nome AK
WAMI 49.1 Miami FL
WAVG 30.1 Utica NY
WAAV 49.2 Bay City WI
WBBM 54.2 Baltimore MD
WBXE-CA 12.2 Tupelo MS
WCCL 49.2 New Orleans LA
WCGD 39;1 Cincinnati OH
WDAD 39.2 Port Charles NY
WDVV 28.2 Monticello OH
WEAS-TV 66.1 Burlington/Plattsburgh VT/NY
WHDA 49.1 Detroit MI
WHPO 29.1 Cincinnati OH
WHQT 10.1 Kazoo Pass NJ
WHTR 12.2 Raleigh/Durham NC
WJWB 17.2 Jacksonville FL
WKAT 49.1 Atlanta GA
WLEV 40.1 Philadelphia PA
WLIZ 11.2 Liberty City LI
WLTT 36.2 Oakdale IL
WNLQ 20.1 Nashville TN
WOER 45.1 Erie PA
WOIC 49.1 Chicago IL
WOHT 45.2 Pine Valley PA
WONY 49.1 New York NY
WPLO 27.2 Llanview PA
WRMX-LP 12.2 Memphis TN
WSVD 2.3 Huntington WV
WTHI 49.1 Columbus OH
WTLG 25.1 Talbot NJ
WTZA 45.2 Corinth PA
WXHR 40.1 Boston MA
WZMC-LP 35.2 Fort Myers/Naples FL

If you wish to be an affiliate of Omni, feel free to do so and add your station to the table. Keep in mind that the stations are in alphabetical order.

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