WABC-TV
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New York, New York United States |
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| Branding |
ABC 7 or Channel 7 (general) Channel 7 Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Number One in New York |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
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| Owner |
The Walt Disney Company/American Broadcasting Company (American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.) |
| Founded | April 1947 |
| First air date | August 10, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're the American Broadcasting Company |
| Sister station(s) | WEPN, WEPN-FM |
| Former callsigns | WJZ-TV (1948–1953) |
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| Transmitter power | 34 kW |
| Height | 405 metres (1,329 feet) |
| Facility ID | 1328 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°WCoordinates: 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abc7ny |
WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, located in New York City. WABC-TV is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The station's studios and offices are located near Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building.
WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of the Eyewitness News format and for its morning show, syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Disney-ABC Domestic Television.
In the few areas of the eastern United States where an ABC station isn't receivable over-the-air, WABC is available on satellite via DirecTV (which also provides coverage of the station to Latin American and Caribbean countries and through major U.S. air carriers on LiveTV inflight entertainment system) and Dish Network (which carries the station as part of All American Direct's distant network package).
The station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV, the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV (now WLS-TV) in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, WJZ (770 AM, now WABC). In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's prime time schedule began to expand. The station's original transmitter site was atop The Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st Street, before moving to the Empire State Building a few years later. The station's original studios were located at 77 West 66th Street, with studios at 7 West 66th Street. An underground tunnel linked ABC studios at 7 West 66th Street to the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes, a block north on West 67th Street. Another studio inside the Hotel des Artistes was used for Eyewitness News Conference.
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