Abc!

By: Deriyan WhitakerNovember 9, 2010

By: Deriyan Whitaker

November 9, 2010

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

Daytime Hit TV Shows:

All My Children General Hospital

One Life To Live

Primetime Hit TV Shows:

Grey’s Anatomy

Heroes

Desperate Housewives

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.