American Broadcasting Company
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Ratings: Runway Finishes Strong, CBS Topples ABC...numbers from CSI (15 million viewers) and Survivor: Samoa (12. 3 million viewers.) All of the networks' numbers were down, but ABC took the hardest hit: FlashForward (8 million viewers) slid 8 percent in the demo, Grey's Anatomy's... In this article: Bravo, The Mentalist, Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, CSI, Project Runway, Private Practice, ABC, and CBS |
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TV Guide | 1 day ago
ABC Sets Lost Premiere Date
First the island moved; now Lost is moving to a new night. The sixth and final season of the ABC series is scheduled for a two-hour premiere Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 9/8c, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Last season, the Damon Lindelof and Carlton...
In this article: Lost, ABC, Carlton Cuse, Kermit the Frog, Damon Lindelof, Zuleikha Robinson, Ken Leung, and Naveen Andrews
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Chicago Tribune | 1 day ago
ABC moves the island: 'Lost' sets return date, shifts to Tuesdays
...To</a> Lastly, ABC's full press release on "Lost's" final season is below. ABC ANNOUNCES THE PREMIERE OF THE SIXTH AND FINAL SEASON OF "LOST," WITH A SPECIAL ALL-NIGHT EVENT ON...
In this article: Lost, ABC, Carlton Cuse, Twitter, Jeffrey Lieber, Jack Bender, Ben, Groundhog Day, Kate, and Locke
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AP Online | 2 days ago
Country music awards boost ABC in the ratings
NEW YORK (AP) - Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year. The network, which narrowly lost to CBS for the distinction of America's most popular TV network last week, aired the Country Music Association awards...
In this article: Country Music Association Awards, Nielsen Co., ABC, TeleFutura, CBS Corp., Telemundo, Univision, Ion Television, CBS, and Joint venture
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Reuters | 3 days ago
US consumer confidence extends steady gains - ABC
NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - ABC News said on Tuesday that its weekly measure of U.S. consumer confidence continued to rise in the latest week, marking a rate of growth last seen in the spring of 2008. The ABC Consumer Comfort Index edged...
In this article: US, U.S. Treasury, NEW YORK, and ABC
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ABC, CBS both have early corporate ties to NBC
NBC initially ran two radio networks but had to shed one of them in 1943 under pressure from the government. The spinoff became ABC. Decades later, in 1995, Westinghouse bought CBS and is now known as CBS Corp., after shedding energy and...
In this article: CBS Corp, RCA, GE, NBC, AT&T, Westinghouse Electric Co., and ABC
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HitFix | November 12, 2009
'Terminator' showrunner brings 'Charlie's Angels' back to ABC
...of Movies, Music, TV and Local Events. tv 'Terminator' showrunner brings 'Charlie's Angels' back to ABC According to Variety, ABC is close to ordering a pilot for a modern take on the classic '70s action series, written and executive...
In this article: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Charlie's Angels, Josh Friedman, ABC, Carlton Cuse, 90210, McG, Melrose Place, and Lost
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ABC shows 'Hank' the door; another Grammer loss
NEW YORK (AP) - ABC's cancellation of the comedy "Hank" makes it two failures in three years for star Kelsey Grammer. Grammer, the multiple Emmy winner as the star of "Frasier," also saw his Fox series "Back to You" with Patricia Heaton...
In this article: Kelsey Grammer, Nielsen Co., Patricia Heaton, Emmy, Back to You, Frasier, NEW YORK, ABC, and ABC
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washingtonpost.com | November 10, 2009
Don't mess with Virginia's ABC stores
...8 Local Opinions piece, Garrett Peck argued for the privatization of Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) liquor stores. He stated that the ABC concept grew out of Prohibition and that "ABC was once about promoting temperance, but the...
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'V' caps a strong development season for ABC
...CBS spinoff "NCIS: Los Angeles," and it was the most-watched scripted show of the week among the youthful demographic ABC covets. Three of ABC's new scripted series - also including "Modern Family" and "Flash Forward" - finished among the 32...
In this article: Nielsen Co., TeleFutura, CBS Corp., Philadelphia Phillies, Telemundo, Univision, ABC, Ion Television, CBS, and Joint venture
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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948. Corporate headquarters are in Manhattan in New York City, while programming offices are in Burbank, California adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the Walt Disney Company corporate headquarters. ABC is the most watched television network in the United States as of 2008.
The current slogan is "Start Here", except television idents continue to use the former "America's Broadcasting Company" slogan. Before the "America's Broadcasting Company" slogan, television idents used the full corporate name from 1997-2000.
The formal name of the operation is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright notices for its in-house network productions and on all official documents of the company, including paychecks and contracts. A separate entity named ABC Inc., formerly Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is that firm's direct parent company, and that company is owned in turn by Disney. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, due to the letters "ABC" being the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, in order.
- Name:
- American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
- Former name:
- NBC Blue Network
- Type:
- television network
- Founder:
- Edward Noble
- Owned by:
- The Walt Disney Company (since 1996)
- Key People:
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- Anne Sweeney, co-chair Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group
- Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- Steve McPherson, President, ABC Entertainment
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