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American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company
Broadcasting network
NameAmerican Broadcasting Company (ABC)
TypeTelevision Network
Radio Network
Branding"America's Broadcasting Company"
CountryUnited States
AvailabilityNational
SloganStart Here
OwnerIndependent (divested from NBC, 1943 � 1953)
United Paramount Theatres (1953 � 1965)
Independent (1965 � 1985)
Capital Cities Communications (1985 � 1996)
The Walt Disney Company (1996 � present)
Key peopleEdward Noble
Robert Iger
Anne Sweeney
David Westin
Paul Lee
George Bodenheimer
Launch dateOctober 12, 1943 (Radio)
April 19, 1948 (Television)
Former namesNBC Blue Network
Picture format480i (16:9 SDTV)
720p (HDTV)

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcasting 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. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948. As one of the Big Three television networks, its programming has contributed to American popular culture.

Corporate headquarters is in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, and the company's news operations are also centered in Manhattan. Entertainment programming offices are in Burbank, California adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the corporate headquarters of The Walt Disney Company.

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.


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