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| The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. 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 New York, while programming offices are in Burbank, California, adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the Walt Disney Company corporate headquarters. ABC is among the most successful networks as of 2006.
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 today, in fact, is the last of the Big Three broadcasting networks to keep its full name; the Columbia Broadcasting System adopted an initialism on April 17, 1974, and the National Broadcasting Company did so in 2004). The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, due to the letters "ABC" being the first three Roman letters. ABC's sister channels are: ABC Family, Disney Channel/Playhouse Disney, ESPN, ESPN2, SoapNet, Toon Disney/Jetix. See also | |
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