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      • The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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  2. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

  3. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by The Walt Disney Company through its subsidiary, Disney Entertainment.

  4. American Broadcasting Company (ABC), major American television network that is a division of the Disney Company. Its headquarters are in New York City. The company’s history traces to 1926, when the Radio Corporation of America (now RCA Corporation) and two other firms founded the National

    • ABC's Entry Into Television
    • The 1960s and 1970s
    • 1985 Until The Disney Merger
    • Acquisition by Disney

    Faced with huge expenses in building a radio network, ABC was in no position to take on the additional costs demanded by a televisionnetwork. To secure a place at the table, though, in 1947, ABC submitted requests for licenses in the five cities where it owned radio stations. On April 19, 1948, the ABC television network went on the air. For the ne...

    While ABC-TV continued to languish in third place nationally, it often topped local ratings in the larger markets. With the arrival of Hollywood's slickly produced series, ABC began to catch on with younger urban viewers. As the network gained in the ratings, it became an attractive property, and over the next few years ABC approached, or was appro...

    ABC's dominance carried into the early 1980s. By 1985, however, veteran shows like The Love Boat had lost their attraction and a resurgent NBC was leading in the ratings. ABC shifted its focus to situation comedies. During this period, ABC seemed to have lost the momentum that once propelled it; there was little offered that was innovative or compe...

    In 1996, the Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC, and renamed the broadcasting group ABC, Inc., although the network continues to also use American Broadcasting Companies, such as on TV productions it owns. ABC's relationship with Disney dates back to 1953, when Leonard Goldenson pledged enough money so that the Disneyland theme park co...

  5. ABC, in full American Broadcasting Co., Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. To avoid a communications monopoly, NBC was forced to sell the Blue network in 1941.

  6. The American Broadcast Company (ABC) is an American television network. Along with CBS , NBC and Fox , it is one of the country's four major television networks. The network is owned by The Walt Disney Company following the acquisition of the Capital Cities/ABC by the company in 1995.

  7. ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America , Nightline , Primetime , 20/20 , and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos .

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