ABC Circle Films
| Subsidiary corporation | |
| Industry | Television |
| Genre | news |
| Fate | closed |
| Parent | ABC Owned Television Stations |
| Industry | Television |
|---|---|
| Fate | closed |
| Founded | (March 21, 1989) |
| Defunct | June 7, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Century City |
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Key people
|
Brandon Stoddard, president Brian McAndrews, EVP of production at ABC |
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Production output
|
TV shows, miniseries, telefilms |
| Owner | ABC Television Network Group (Capital Cities/ABC) |
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Number of employees
|
13 (1996) |
| Divisions |
| Industry | Filmed entertainment |
|---|---|
| Successor | ABC Circle Films |
| Defunct | 1998 |
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Key people
|
Didier Pietri (Senior VP) |
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Number of employees
|
9 (1998) |
| Parent | ABC Productions |
| Industry | TV |
|---|---|
| Genre | Movie of the week |
| Successor | ABC Pictures |
| Founded | (1970) |
| Products | TV movies, miniseries and series |
|
Production output
|
TV shows |
| Corporation | |
| Genre | documentary |
| Founded | (October 1, 1989) |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., US |
| Parent | Disney-ABC Television Group |
| Founded | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
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Production output
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documentary |
| subsidiary | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Fate | closed |
| Predecessor | ABC Pictures International |
| Founded | (May 1979) |
| Defunct | October 1985 |
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Key people
|
Brandon Stoddard, president |
|
Production output
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Theatrical & TV films, TV shows, miniseries |
| Parent | American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. |
| Industry | Filmed entertainment |
|---|---|
| Successor | ABC Motion Pictures, Inc. |
| Founded | 1965 (Inc.: November 3, 1967) |
| Defunct | 1973 Dissolution (February 19, 1988) |
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Key people
|
Martin Baum |
|
Production output
|
theatrical films |
| Parent | American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. |
|
Formerly called
|
Buena Vista Productions |
|---|---|
| unit | |
| Industry | TV |
| Genre | talk, game, reality |
| Predecessor | Buena Vista Development |
| Owner | ABC Daytime Group (ABC Television Group) |
| Industry | Television |
|---|---|
| Products | TV shows |
| Owner |
KGO-TV (American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres) |
The Disney–ABC Television Group, formerly American Broadcasting Companies and Capital Cities/ABC, has formed a number of production companies over the years. ABC Film Syndication, or ABC Films, was ABC's syndication distribution arm from 1953 to 1971 when FCC passed the fin-syn rule. As a result, ABC Films was sold to 5 of its former executives becoming Worldvision Enterprises. ABC's current primary production company is ABC Studios.
A number of production companies were formed under Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, or ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group: Capital Cities/ABC Video Productions, Ultra Entertainment, the Hemisphere Group and DIC Entertainment.
ABC Circle 7 Productions, Inc. was the programming subsidiary of the ABC Owned Stations in the 1980s.
In August 1983, Circle 7 Productions announced its Newsbank news distribution service. ABC Circle 7 Productions was incorporated on December 15, 1983.
ABC Productions (ABCP) was a television production company that was a division of ABC Television Network Group. While the ABC network had first shot at the unit's shows, the company was allowed to shop shows to other networks and was the first to sell to another network. The company was set up increase the control and financial rewards of producing its own TV shows.
ABC Productions was formed in 1989 as ABC Network's in-house production unit after the alteration of the fin-syn rules that increased network ownership to only 40% of prime-time programs. Former ABC Motion Pictures president and ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard on March 21, 1989 to head up the then unnamed production unit.
By May 1991, ABCP produced eight pilots, a series, a miniseries and several TV movies. "My Life and Times" was the company's first series production placed with the ABC network and debuted in May 1991, but was yanked after the ratings dropped 19% from week 1 to 2, so as to avoid May sweeps. While its first miniseries, "An Inconvenient Woman" was shown on ABC in the May sweeps. For Lifetime, ABCP produced a telefilm, 'Stop at Nothing'. By the 1994-95 season, ABC Productions was providing half of ABC's regular series programming.
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