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According to the OBN website, they have affiliates in New York, Los Angeles, and various other places. If they really have affiliates in those places, wouldn't there be an article on at least one of their stations? Plus, I don't know of a single person who has ever even heard of this network. It just seems kind of strange to me. - HG707

Do they have any affliates in any of the cities listed there? I know there is no OBN affliates in the major cities but I'm not too sure about any of the smaller markets. It also seems that their website hasn't been updated in a really long time. --~Pikachu9000 01:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I am adding the hoax template to this article. I can find almost no evidence Omni Broadcasting Network ever existed.

• The article has two references, one of which is the alledged network's home page and both of which are now archive site links.
• Googling "Omni Broadcasting Network" mostly turns up pages citing this Wikipedia article. Tellingly, the first two results after this page are for pages on fan wikis about fictional TV stations.
• There is no information on stations within the network, either here or on the homepage. If it existed, this information would be verifiable with the FCC's online database.
• When I manage to get through the recursive references, I find primary documents like this [1] that still seem fake. If you go to the top level of this website, Globenewswire describes itself as "Press Release Distribution Services." If you click on the homepage link in the press release, you end up here, in a directory with a folder that can't be open and a text file that looks vandalized.
• The comments here on the talk page show that people were skeptical OBN was real as far back as 2006, but apparently no one ever followed up on it.

It doesn't look like anything ever existed of Omni Broadcasting Network other than the website. Based on my research, I think this is either a project that never got off the ground (in which case I'd argue it's non-notable) or something entirely fictional. Tisnec (talk) 03:47, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tisnec,

The network definitely wasn't a hoax. The Internet Archive has captured the website, where its 36 affiliate locations are listed. You can see its business filings, including logo trademarks, in Delaware, California, and Nevada here. You can see a press release here, where they announce the broadcast of The Four Tops anniversary concert. You can see on the archived website they are a division of OBN Holdings, which has a Bloomberg profile here. OBN Holdings is listed on several stock exchanges, subject to SEC filings, and you can find information on their various subdivisions here. Firsfron of Ronchester 16:36, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The affiliates list doesn't actually list affiliates, just the cities they would be in (unless I'm just dense and missing something). The press release you linked is from the same source I posted above; it looks like Globenewswire is just an outlet that publishes press releases. The Bloomberg page is better but it doesn't mention the network anywhere, just the parent company, whose existence is not well-supported elsewhere. I don't consider the sec.report filing credible because the site says at the bottom『Data is automatically aggregated and provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. SEC.report is not affiliated with the U.S. S.E.C. or EDGAR System.』What I really want is some information in a government system somewhere that shows they broadcast a single hour of television, anywhere. I can't find any independent third-hand sources, there are no primary government sources, and I can't even find anything on YouTube. That's an incredible lack of information for a TV network that would have existed entirely in the digital age. Compare the Omni page to the one for the Overmyer Network, which existed for less than a year between 1966 and 1967. That has a full affiliate list (with call signs) and extensive third party sources. Tisnec (talk) 17:44, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]