Omni Broadcasting Network

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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