The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (stylized in its logo as abc since 1957) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the DisneyABC Television Group, a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, with additional major offices and production facilities in New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.

ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943 as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's parent merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. When did ABC launch?
2. Where is it headquartered?
3. Does it have locations elsewhere?
4. For example?
5. Who did they first merge with?
6. What kind of business is that?
7. Did they purchase another business?
8. What?
9. What's that?
10. Were they ever bought out?
11. When?
12. For how much?
13. By who?
1. October 12, 1943
2. On Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan
3. Yes
4. New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.
5. United Paramount Theatres
6. A chain of movie theaters
7. Yes
8. An 80% interest in ESPN
9. A cable sports channel
10. Yes
11. In 1996
12. unknown
13. The Walt Disney Company.