American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC; stylized in lowercase as abc) is an American multinational commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Walt Disney Television, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, is in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. ABC is nicknamed "The Alphabet Network", as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet, in order.

ABC launched as a radio network in 1943, which served 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 (UPT), 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 percent interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's corporate parent, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 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 Disney.

ABC has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States and its territories. Some ABC-affiliated stations can also be seen in Canada via pay-television providers, and certain other affiliates can also be received over-the-air in areas near the Canada–United States border. ABC News provides news and features content for select radio stations owned by Cumulus Media, as these stations are former ABC Radio properties.

## History on Broadcast and Rerun

### (1943-1963)

* The Jetsons (1962-1963) - Sunday September 23rd 1962-March 3rd 1963 - at 7:30pm-8:00pm

### Meet Us in September (1969-1970)

* The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians - Tuesday April 7th 1970

### Let's Get Together (1970-1971)

* Santa Claus is Comin' to Town - Monday December 14th 1970

### This is the Place to Be (1971-1973)

* That Girl In Wonderland - Saturday January 13th 1973

### Hello America, Hello ABC (1974-1975)

* The Year Without a Santa Claus - Tuesday December 10th 1974 - at 8:00-9:00pm

### Let Us Be the One (1976-1977)

* Frosty's Winter Wonderland - Thursday December 2nd 1976

### Still the One (1977-1978)

* Halloween is Grinch Night - Saturday October 29th 1977 - at 8:00-8:30pm

### We're the One (in a Million) (1978-1979)

* Challenge of the Super Friends - Saturday September 9th 1978-December 23rd 1978 - at 9:00-10:00am

### Still the One (1979-1980)

* Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? - Friday May 2nd 1980

### You and Me and ABC (1980-1981)

* Super Friends (1980) - Saturday September 13th 1980-November 1st 1980 - at 8:00-8:30am

### Now is the Time, ABC is the Place (1981-1982)

* The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat - Thursday May 20th 1982

### America's Watching ABC (1990-1992)

* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Grown, But Not Forgotten - Saturday September 14th 1991 - at 8:00-8:30am