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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
The American Broadcasting Company is a television network based in the United States made up of eight owned-and-operated stations and nearly 226 network affiliates. [ 1 ] Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license .
ABC Motion Pictures was a production company of ABC that operated from May 1979. [88] 20th Century Fox was the company's distributor. Until October 1985, the division produced theatrical films along with TV movies, series and mini-series. [89] History. ABC Motion Pictures was founded in May 1979 with Brandon Stoddard as president. [90]
"PBS UK" was launched as a paid subscription channel in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2011, featuring American documentary programming sourced from PBS. Better identifying its subject matter, this channel was renamed "PBS America" on July 4, 2012. The channel has subsequently become available in other parts of Europe and Australia.
This is a list of member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service, a network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States.The list is arranged alphabetically by state and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the designated market area when different from the city of license.
The PBS Companion: A History of Public Television. New York: TV Books. ISBN 978-1575000503. Ledbetter, James (1997). Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States. New York: Verso. ISBN 978-1859849040. Engelman, Ralph (1996). Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.The new organization initially collaborated with the National Educational Television network—which would be replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
"United States TV Stations: Georgia", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive; Patrick Novotny (2007). "Impact of Television on Georgia, 1948-1952". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 91.