Division of | American Broadcasting Company (ABC) |
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Key people |
Ben Sherwood (Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney–ABC Television Group) James Goldston (President, ABC News) George Stephanopoulos (Chief Anchor) David Muir (Anchor and Managing Editor of ABC World News Tonight) |
Founded | June 15, 1945 |
Headquarters |
ABC News Headquarters 47 West 66th StreetUpper West Side, Manhattan New York City, New York, United States |
Studios | ABC News Headquarters, New York City Times Square Studios New York City ABC-owned stations across the United States |
Area served | Worldwide (available on Apple TV in certain countries; mobile service available worldwide) |
Broadcast programs |
ABC World News Tonight Nightline This Week 20/20 Good Morning America World News Now America This Morning The View |
Parent |
Disney–ABC Television Group (Disney Media Networks) (The Walt Disney Company) |
Slogan |
See the Whole Picture Everyday More Americans Choose ABC News, America's #1 News Source. |
Website | www |
Web portal | go.com |
ABC News Headquarters
ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, newsmagazine series Nightline, Primetime and 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephonopolis.
ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent existence as a radio network after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered NBC to spin off the former NBC Blue Network into an independent company in 1943. The split (which NBC conducted voluntarily in the event that its appeal to have the ruling overturned was denied) was enforced to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States as the industry had only a few companies such as NBC and CBS that dominated the radio market, and in particular, was intended to prevent the limited competition from dominating news and political broadcasting and projecting narrow points-of-view. Television broadcasting was suspended, however, during World War II.