The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment 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, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
In 1927, NBC operated a radio network called the NBC Blue Network. It would later become an independent radio (and, eventually, television) network known as the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1943. ABC later joined United Paramount Theatres forming American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (later American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.).
After its venture into radio and television throughout the 1960s and 1970s and the purchase of ESPN in 1982, the company would later be acquired and merged with Capital Cities, forming Capital Cities/ABC in 1986. The company was sold to The Walt Disney Company in 1996.
ABC aired the The Tom and Jerry Show, which ran from September 6 to December 13, 1975.
External links[]
- Official site
- ABC on Wikipedia