Initial members of the committee included Shelly Cooper, General Manager of WGN-TV[9] Chicago, Rich Frank of KCOP-TV Los Angeles,[7] and representatives of KTVU, WPIX and KSTW.

[12] The most successful miniseries from OPT was "A Woman Called Golda" It won multiple Emmy awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes.

At that point, it was just The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers; they didn't launch prime time programming until the spring of 1987.

Ultimately, the arrival of Fox as well as original programming for cable networks and stations would eventually make the OPT business model obsolete.

[citation needed] It could be common place for OPT's weekly series to be divided between two network affiliates and run mainly on weekends in off hours.

In a given market, the local CBS station might carry Entertainment Tonight (in the prime-access slot), Solid Gold, and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous while the ABC affiliate had Star Search.