ABC Signature Studios
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| ABC Studios | |
| Subsidiary limit liability company | |
| Industry | Television production |
| Founded | 1985 (as Touchstone Films) |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
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| Parent | 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 |
| ABC Studios Australia | |
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Film |
| Founded | November 1929 |
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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 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Website | http/abc.net.au |
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 Films TV banner in 1984 and given its current name on May 24, 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. The next TV season, Disney Picture's TV production unit produced a hit with The Golden Girls using the Touchstone Films brand.
Walt Disney Television and Touchstone Television were grouped together under Garth Ancier as president of network television for Walt Disney Studios on April 18, 1989.
In 1992, Touchstone moved into producing longer forms for TV focusing on more adult fare with its first telefilm being 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 Disney group taking Touchstone and other TV units out of Disney Studios.
In April 1996, due to ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and retirement of its president, Disney Television and Telecommunications Group's 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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