The channel also pioneered the producer - presenter work format where the reporters self-produced television news items using the then emerging light weight cameras and video digitising ingestion systems based on Apple Computer and Oracle Database software.
[1] As early as 1992, OCN began producing news for KTLA[2] (which would eventually attempt to rival the cable channel in its home county).
Freedom sold OCN to New Canaan, Connecticut-based Century Communications, which at the time operated other cable entities in California, most notably in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, in 1996.
The network was purchased by Adelphia Cable in 1999 (eventually the name was changed slightly to Orange County News Channel) and struggled with decreasing profits and ad revenue and ended up going out of business on September 7, 2001 after years of losing money in which the network ended up going bankrupt.
Throughout its life, OCN had a largely captive audience, as the only other sources for cable news in Orange County were KTLA and KOCE-TV.