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Disney Studio's ABC building located in Burbank, California.
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| ABC Studios | |
| Subsidiary Limited liability company |
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| Industry | Television production |
| Founded | 1985 (as Touchstone Films) |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
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ABC Entertainment (Disney–ABC Television Group) |
| Website | abcstudiosmedianet |
| ABC Signature | |
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Filmed entertainment |
| Founded | October 2012 |
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Key people
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Tracy Underwood |
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Production output
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Cable show programs |
| Parent | ABC Studios (ABC Entertainment Group) |
| Website | www |
Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (dba ABC Studios), is the television production unit of ABC Entertainment Group, part of Disney–ABC Television Group. ABC Studios was established as the Touchstone Television banner in 1984 and given its current name on May 21, 2007.
The Touchstone Films banner was used for TV by then-new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. Touchstone was a banner of Disney Pictures which included at the time television production. In the next season, Disney's TV production unit produced a hit in The Golden Girls using the Touchstone Films brand.
On April 18, 1989, Walt Disney Television and Touchstone Television were grouped together under Garth Ancier, president of network television for Walt Disney Studios.
In 1992, Touchstone moved into producing longer forms for TV, focusing on more adult fare with its first telefilm for CBS about Edna Buchanan, a Miami Herald crime reporter who would win a Pulitzer Prize.
On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg's resignation, Richard Frank became head of Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications, a new group taking Touchstone and other TV units out of the Disney studios.
In April 1996, due to ongoing post-Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and the retirement of its president, Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications' divisions were reassigned to other groups, with Touchstone Television transferred to The Walt Disney Studios. By March 1998, David Neuman assumed the presidency of Touchstone TV. In March 1998, Touchstone was placed under Buena Vista Television Productions, a newly formed group under chairman Lloyd Braun, along with Walt Disney Network Television.
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