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1. By: Deriyan Whitaker
November 9, 2010
By: Deriyan Whitaker
November 9, 2010

2. American Broadcasting Company
☆Date the Company began:
☆October 12, 1943 (Radio)
☆April 19, 1948 (Television)
☆Who’s in Charge:
☆The Walt Disney Company
☆Where is the headquarters:
☆1965 Broadway at West 66th Street, NW
Corner to West 67th Street

3. Daytime Hit TV Shows:
All My Children General
Hospital
One Life To Live

4. Primetime Hit TV Shows:
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
Desperate Housewives

5. Interesting Facts
• In 1995 Capital Cities-ABC was in turn engulfed by
Disney for US$19 billion.
• The ABC was originally established during the 1920s
as the second radio network - the so-called Blue
Network - of the National Broadcasting Corporation
(NBC), a subsidiary of RCA.
• After the FCC began in 1937 to devise a way to
separate NBC's two networks, RCA sold NBC-Blue to
Edwad Noble (Lifesavers) for $8 million. In 1945 The
Blue Network, Inc, bought the name "American
Broadcasting Company" from George Storer.