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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.
ABC was founded as a radio network in 1943 as the successor to the NBC Blue Network. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, NBC, and the lesser-known DuMont.
ABC is an American television network owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was founded in 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri, and has its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City.
The Birth of ABC - the UK's first Joint Industry Currency (JIC) We’re formed by ISBA and establish the first industry standards for circulation measurement. The Daily Express is the first group to join.
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Early years
ABC began in 1943 as the NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States, specifically news and political broadcasting, and broaden the projected points of view. The radio market was dominated by only a few companies, such as NBC and CBS. NBC conducted the split voluntarily in the event that its appeal to the ruling was...
Roone Arledge
By the 1970s, the network had effectively turned around, with its prime-time entertainment programs achieving stronger ratings and drawing in higher advertising revenue and profits to ABC overall. With the appointment of then president of ABC Sports, Roone Arledge as president of ABC News in 1977, ABC invested the resources to make it a major source of news content. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast "model", created many of ABC News' most popular and enduring programs, inclu...
Modern era
On August 7, 2014, ABC announced that it would relaunch its radio network division, ABC Radio, on January 1, 2015. The change occurred following the announcement that Cumulus would replace its ABC News radio service with Westwood One News (via CNN). On September 20, 2019, ABC Radio was renamed as ABC Audio as the network has evolved to offer a podcastportfolio and other forms of on-demand and linear content. In April 2018, it was announced that FiveThirtyEight would be transferred to ABC News...
Current ABC News programs
1. 20/20(June 6, 1978 – present) 2. ABC World News Tonight(July 10, 1978 – present) 3. America This Morning(July 5, 1982 – present) 4. Good Morning America(November 3, 1975 – present) 5. Good Morning America Weekend(January 3, 1993 – present) 6. GMA3: What You Need To Know(March 18, 2020 – present) 7. Nightline(March 24, 1980 – present) 8. The View(August 11, 1997 – present) 9. This Week(November 15, 1981 – present) 10. What Would You Do? (formerly Primetime: What Would You Do?) (February 26,...
ABC News Radio
ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC Audio, a division of the ABC News. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds through Skyview Networks with newscasts on the hour to its affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US.
ABCNews.com
ABCNews.com launched on May 15, 1997 by ABC News Internet Ventures, a joint venture between Starwave and ABC formed in April 1997. Starwave had owned and operated ESPNet SportsZone (later known as ESPN.com) since 1995, which licensed the ESPN brand and video clips from ABC's corporate sister ESPN Inc. Disney wanted more control of their Internet properties, which meant ABCNews.com was operated as a joint venture with ABC News having editorial control.Disney had also bought a minority stake in...
ABC News Live
ABC News Live is a 24/7 streaming video news channel for breaking news, live events, newscasts and longer-form reports and documentaries operated by ABC News since 2018, The channel is available through Roku, Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling TV, Xumo and the news division's other streaming platforms.The service is under the direction of Colby Smith, senior vice president and general manager of ABC News Digital and Live Streaming and Justin Dial as senior executive producer of ABC News Live. This unit...
Current television anchors, correspondents, and reporters
New York (Headquarters) 1. Mona Kosar Abdi – Co-Anchor, World News Now and America This Morning; Correspondent 2. Dan Abrams– Chief Legal Analyst (2011–present) 3. Dr. Jennifer Ashton– Chief Health and Medical Editor; Chief Medical Correspondent (2012–present) 4. Jim Avila– Senior National Correspondent (2000–present) 5. Gio Benitez – Transportation Correspondent; Anchor, Nightline on Fusion(2013–present) 6. Deirdre Bolton- Business correspondent 7. Juju Chang – Co-anchor, Nightline(1996–pres...
Former
('†' symbol indicates person deceased) In Australia, Sky News Australia airs daily broadcasts of ABC World News Tonight (at 10:30 a.m.) and Nightline (at 1:30 a.m.) as well as weekly airings of 20/20 (on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., with an extended version at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays) and occasionally Primetime (at 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays, with extended edition at 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays). Coincidentally, that country's public broadcasting, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, operates its own unr...
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