Orange Network

Orange Network was a radio network and eventually a TV broadcasting company that was founded as a spin-off to the NBC Orange Network. It merged with Silver Network, which was the successor to CBS Silver, a secondary network of CBS, to form CLP Network, which is currently owned by ATBW Holdings LLC under the ATBW Label Networks division.

Like the larger Silver Network that it merged with later on, Orange Network was a broadcasting network that was smaller than NBC and CBS and eventually ABC (itself initially founded as Blue Network and a successor from NBC Blue Network, which was also part of NBC. ABC would eventually be bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1996 and become one of the five major broadcasting networks) at the time. However, Orange Network broadcasted almost only on the west coast while Silver Network broadcasted from coast to coast, though Orange Network did have stations in states that Silver Network did not cover anywhere at all at the time, including Oregon and Washington State.

After 30 years, Orange Network and Silver Network would both voluntarily merge with each other to form California Broadcasting Company in 1966, but this was later changed to CLP Network in 1972 to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. On March 7, 1996, 80% of the company was eventually bought out by Langile Corporation and it was immediately made a subsidiary of Langile Corporation's ATBW Label Networks, and the company bought the remaining 20% of it on February 20, 1997, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. Even before the merge and formation of CLP Network, Orange Network and Silver Network had close relationships with each other and they both jointly owned and operated the California National Radio Station together (1945 - 1953).

History
In 1936, a second broadcast-quality circuit was completed and it eliminated the need of the NBC Orange Network. The stations that were on the NBC orange network moved to the larger red and blue networks, with the latter eventually becoming ABC in 1945. Some of these broadcasters however wanted to be outside of NBC and so they established the second Orange Network and started new radio stations, most were affiliates, but few were O&O stations.

Orange Network got into the TV Industry in 1945 and began to launch a few TV stations predominantly on the West Coast, including station 95 in 1948 (this station now operates as CLP95 News and is now a sister station to CLP87 News, itself a former TV station from Silver Network). A total of 19 TV stations were launched across the nation, with most of them being on the west coast, with stations 56 and 78 being exceptions (Buffalo, OH and Columbus OH respectively) and station 96 in Jackson, MI).

Talks began in 1962 to merge Orange Network with the larger Silver Network, itself a spin-off from CBS Silver Network. The executives of both of these networks discussed that merging would allow the two to become a unified company and that they could work together to broadcast each others content from all over the country. Silver Network broadcasted coast to coast, but did not cover the states of Oregon and Washington state until the late 1940's, while Orange Network was mostly dominant on the west coast, with few stations in the southwestern states including Arizona, and stations as Far East as Montana.

In 1966, both Orange and Silver Networks merged and formed California Broadcasting Company, but this name was later changed to CLP Network in 1972 due to confusion with the Canadian Broadcasting Company. CLP Network has been a wholly owned subsidiary of ATBW Label Networks since 1997, and stations from both the former Orange and Silver Networks are now part of CLP Network.