ABC (Spain)

ABC

Front page, 2 June 2009
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Grupo Vocento
Founder(s)	Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio
Publisher	Catalina Luca de Tena
Editor	Ángel Expósito
Founded	1 January 1903
Political alignment	Conservatism, Nationalist, Monarchism, Right wing
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	Juan Ignacio de Tena 7, Madrid, Spain
Circulation	243,154 (2011)
Website	www.abc.es

ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper. It is the third largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. ABC is often referred to as a newspaper of record of Spain, along with El País and El Mundo.

ABC was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio. The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. The paper started as a weekly newspaper, turning daily in June 1905. In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Sevilla. The latter was named ABC de Sevilla.

On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ABC in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans. The same year Blanco y Negro, a magazine, became its supplement. A separate ABC printed in Seville supported the Nationalists. In 1939 ABC in Madrid was given back to its original owners, by Francisco Franco. During this period the paper was one of two major dailies in the country together with La Vanguardia.

In the 1990s the publisher of ABC was Editorial Espanola. The paper later moved from its historic landmark offices in Madrid by Paseo de la Castellana, which are now a shopping mall. The paper is part of Grupo Vocento, which also owns El Correo Español, El Diario Vasco, La Verdad and Las Provincias, among the others.