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ABC Productions

ABC Circle 7 Productions
Subsidiary corporation
Industry Television
Genre news
Fate closed
Parent ABC Owned Television Stations
ABC Productions
Industry Television
Fate closed
Founded (March 21, 1989 (1989-03-21))
Defunct June 7, 1996 (1996-06-07)
Headquarters Century City
Key people
Brandon Stoddard, president
Brian McAndrews, EVP of production at ABC
Production output
TV shows, miniseries, telefilms
Owner ABC Television Network Group
(Capital Cities/ABC)
Number of employees
13 (1996)
Divisions
ABC Pictures
Industry Filmed entertainment
Successor ABC Circle Films
Defunct 1998 (1998)
Key people
Didier Pietri (Senior VP)
Number of employees
9 (1998)
Parent ABC Productions
ABC Circle Films
Industry TV
Genre Movie of the week
Successor ABC Pictures
Founded (1970 (1970))
Products TV movies, miniseries and series
Production output
TV shows
ABC/Kane Productions International
Corporation
Genre documentary
Founded (October 1, 1989 (1989-10-01))
Headquarters Washington, D.C., US
Parent Disney-ABC Television Group
Devillier Donegan Enterprises
Founded 1980
Headquarters Washington, DC
Production output
documentary
ABC Motion Pictures
subsidiary
Industry Entertainment
Fate closed
Predecessor ABC Pictures International
Founded (May 1979 (1979-05))
Defunct October 1985
Key people
Brandon Stoddard, president
Production output
Theatrical & TV films, TV shows, miniseries
Parent American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
ABC Pictures International, Inc.
Industry Filmed entertainment
Successor ABC Motion Pictures, Inc.
Founded 1965 (1965)
(Inc.: November 3, 1967 (1967-11-03))
Defunct 1973 (1973)
Dissolution (February 19, 1988)
Key people
Martin Baum
Production output
theatrical films
Parent American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
ABC Media Productions
Formerly called
Buena Vista Productions
unit
Industry TV
Genre talk, game, reality
Predecessor Buena Vista Development
Owner ABC Daytime Group
(ABC Television Group)
Circle Seven Productions
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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