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ABC News
ABC News Parent: The Walt Disney Company
Slogan: See the Whole Picture
Website: ABCnews.com
Web Portal: go.com
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting di-
vision of American broadcast television network ABC, a
subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Its flagship pro-
gram is World News with Diane Sawyer; other programs in-
clude morning show Good Morning America, Nightline, tele-
vision news magazine shows Primetime & 20/20, and Sun-
day morning political affairs program This Week with Ge-
orge Stephanopoulos.
ABC News headquarters on West 66th Street in New York History
City, New York (November 2008)
Division of: American Broadcasting Company Early years
(ABC) ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent ex-
Key people: Anne Sweeney istence as a radio network after the Federal Communi-
President & Co-Chair cations Commission ordered the former NBC Blue Net-
Disney-ABC Television Group work to be spun off as an independent company in 1943.
Sherwood,
Ben Sherwood This was done to keep single or a few companies such as
President of ABC News
Diane Sawyer
Sawyer,
NBC and CBS from dominating radio broadcasting in the
Lead Anchor U.S., and in particular, from dominating news and polit-
ical broadcasting and projecting narrow points-of-view.
Founded: June 15, 1945
Television broadcasting was suspended however, during
Headquarters: New York City, New York, United World War II.
States Regular ABC television news broadcasts began soon
Studios: ABC News Headquarters
Headquarters,
after ABC started transmitting from its initial New York
New York City, New York City television station and production center in late sum-
Times Square Studios
Studios, mer 1948. ABC-TV news broadcasts have continued as
New York City, New York, United States the ABC television network spread across the country,
Newseum,
Newseum a process that took many years, from that beginning in
Washington, D.C., United States
1948 through today, but they have not always had the
ABC-owned stations
across the United States same level of success that they enjoy now. Throughout
the 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s, ABC News con-
Area served: Worldwide sistently ranked third in viewership behind CBS News
Broadcast 20/20 and NBC News. Until the 1970s, the ABC-TV network had
programs: ABC News Brief fewer affiliate stations, and also weaker prime-time pro-
America This Morning gramming lineups to support the network’s news depart-
Good Morning America ments than the two larger networks had, each of which
Good Morning America Weekend Edition
Nightline
had established their radio news operations during the
Primetime 1930s.
This Week
World News Now Under Roone Arledge
World News with David Muir
World News with Diane Sawyer Only after Roone Arledge, the head of ABC Sports at that
time, became the president of ABC News in 1977, at a
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time when this network’s prime-time entertainment pro- however, cable operators in Europe are currently unable
grams were achieving good ratings and drawing in adver- to carry the channels due to unsolved rights issues.
tising revenues and profits to the ABC corporation over- It is also available online at ABC News Now.
all, was ABC able to invest the resources to make it a ma- In the United Kingdom, ABC World News appears reg-
jor source of news telecasting. Arledge, known for ex- ularly at 1:30 a.m. local time on the BBC News Channel,
perimenting with the broadcast "model", created many which itself may be simulcast on BBC One or BBC Two
of ABC News’s most popular and enduring programs, in- during the overnight period. No commercials are pre-
cluding 20/20, ABC World News, This Week, Nightline, and sented because the BBC’s services in the U.K. are financed
Primetime Live. through license fees. ABC and the BBC also share video
ABC News gained respect in the early 1980s by cov- segments and reporters as needed in producing their
ering the Iran hostage crisis and, later, for covering the newscasts.
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay In Australia, ABC World News is broadcast at 10:30 a.m.
Area with live telecasts. daily and Nightline is telecast at 1:30 a.m. daily on Sky
The ABC News slogan, "More Americans get their News Australia. This can be confusing in Australia, where
news from ABC News than from any other source", is a "ABC News" means the news broadcasts of the Australian
claim that refers to the number of people who watch, lis- Broadcasting Corporation. Also, Primetime is broadcast at
ten, and read ABC News programming on television, the 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays (extended edition) and at 1:30 p.m.
radio, and the Internet, and not necessarily to the tele- on Thursdays. 20/20 is broadcast at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays
casts alone.[1] (extended edition) and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.
In New Zealand, ABC World News is broadcast daily at
Association with ESPN 5:10 p.m. and at again at 11:35 p.m. Just as with the BBC in
ESPN, a sports-news organization with several cable and the U.K., these are shown commercial-free on Television
satellite television channels — and also owned by Disney New Zealand’s TVNZ 7 channel.
— provides sports bulletins and video for some of ABC
News’s programs, especially the overnight programs. Other forms of broadcasting
Job layoffs ABC News Radio, a service syndicated by Cumulus Media
Networks, broadcasts newscasts on the hour, live feeds
In February 2010, ABC News announced it would lay off
and specialty news, sports and entertainment program-
hundreds of staff members or up to 25% of its total work
ming to approximately 2,000 radio affiliates nationwide.
force and close all news bureaus outside of its headquar-
As part of Disney’s sale of the ABC Radio division to Ci-
ters in Washington and New York, including bureaus in
tadel Broadcasting in 2007, ABC News entered into an
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.[2]
exclusive agreement with Citadel to distribute its radio
In the wake of the job cuts, a significant controversy
news service on terrestrial stations (Citadel has since
erupted online in May 2010 after it was announced the
merged with Cumulus Media).
former VP of news coverage, Mimi Gurbst, was leaving
ABC NewsOne is ABC News’s affiliate news service.
the network to become a guidance counselor.[3] A story
It gathers and feeds regional, national and international
in the New York Observer reported that Gurbst was a
news material to ABC affiliates around the country and
"cherished" mentor inside the news division.[4] Re-
foreign networks.
porters who closely follow TV news observed that a large
ABC News Now is the ABC’s 24-hour news channel
number of current and former ABC News staffers went
available online and other sources such as mobile
online to vigorously respond that Gurbst had helped per-
phones.
petuate a negative culture with ABC News.[5][6]
A thirty-second ABC News Brief is broadcast weekdays
at 2:58 p.m. ET, between the credits of One Life to Live and
International broadcasts the start of General Hospital (though these newsbriefs are
not aired on all ABC stations). ABC News Briefs formerly
ABC News programming is shown daily on the 24-hour
appeared during many programs and had sponsorships
news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East.
(similar to NBC News Update).
This includes several shows from ABC News. ’Orbit News
A news brief containing information relevant to col-
is network of three 24-hour satellite and cable channels
lege students is shown every hour on mtvU, and ABC
offering exclusively American news programming from
News segments are packaged or customized for broad-
ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC to U.S. expats and other view-
cast over Wal-Mart’s in-store television network.
ers abroad, primarily geared towards an audience in the
Arab countries. The network is available on digital satel-
lite and cable in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Slogans
• See the Whole Picture.
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• More Americans get their news from ABC News than from • John Hockenberry • Kathleen Sullivan
any other source. • Lisa Howard+ • John Cameron Swayze+
It means that more Americans get their news from • Brit Hume • Chris Wallace
the combined sources of ABC News — television, • John Yang
radio and internet — than from any other news • Bob Young+
provider. • Paula Zahn
• Michael Vick
• From the global resources of ABC News this is:
• Nightline (since 2005)
• World News with Diane Sawyer (2009–2010) See also
• "From ABC News, Live in Times Square," this is: • ABC • Free Speech Radio News
• "Good Morning America" (Since 2009 on • CBS News • NBC News
weekdays. They used New York on Weekends • CNN • United States television news
rather than just Times Square. Starting on • Fox News
March, They started using the date on weekdays)
• "From ABC News"
• "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" (March References
2010-May 2010, August 2010–Present) [1] "ABC News, Disney Online and ESPN.com Providing
• "ABC World News" (March 2010-May 2010) Extensive Line-Up of Podcast Content via the New
• "From ABC News Headquarters" this is: iTunes Podcast Directory". The Walt Disney Company.
• ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (May June 28, 2005. http://corporate.disney.go.com/
2010-August 2010) wdig/press_releases/2005/2005_0628_disney.html.
• "ABC World News" (May 2010–present) Retrieved December 20, 2009.
[2] Stelter, Brian (February 23, 2010). "ABC News to
Former notable personnel Cut Hundreds of Staff Members". The New York
Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/
Deceased)
(+-Deceased • Peter Jennings+ 2010/02/23/abc-news-to-cut-hundreds-of-staff-
• Roone Arledge+ • Dana King members/?em.
• Ashleigh Banfield • Christianne Klein [3] Mimi Gurbst: Career Counselor or Cruella Deville? -
• Rona Barrett • Ted Koppel FishbowlDC
• Martin Bashir • Robert Krulwich [4] Top ABC News Producer Leaving Network To
• Willow Bay • Bill Lawrence+ Become High School Guidance Counselor | The New
• Steve Bell • Joan Lunden York Observer
• Jules Bergman+ • Michel Martin [5] Co-Workers Bid Outgoing ABC News Producer
• Bill Beutel+ • Lisa McRee Adieu With Barrage of Hateful Anonymous
• David Brinkley+ • Antonio Mora Comments | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
• Aaron Brown • Edward P. Morgan+ [6] For Departing ABC News Exec, Where the Story
• Hal Bruno+ • Kevin Newman Ends, Commentary Begins - TVNewser
• Marysol Castro • Tony Perkins
• Leo Cherne+ • Harry Reasoner+
• Spencer Christian • Frank Reynolds+ External links
• Connie Chung • Bill Ritter • abcnews.com, official website of ABC News
• Bob Clark • Geraldo Rivera • abcnewsradio.com, official website of ABC News
• Ron Cochran+ • Max Robinson+ Radio
• Anderson Cooper • Pierre Salinger+ • abcnewsnow.com, official website of ABC News Now
• John Daly+ • Forrest Sawyer • ABC News on Twitter
• Morton Dean • Mike Schneider
• Sam Donaldson • Bill Shadel+
• Hugh Downs • Joel Siegel+
• Nancy Dussault • Howard K. Smith+
• Stephanie Edwards • Jack Smith+
• Charles Gibson • Kate Snow
• Don Goddard+ • Nancy Snyderman
• David Hartman • John Stossel
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