ABC News Weekend Report (1970s-September 1991).GMA3: What You Need To Know (Ma– present)įormer ABC News programs Newscast programs.What Would You Do? (formerly Primetime: What Would You Do?) (Febru– present).Good Morning America Weekend (Janu– present).Following an reorganization of ABC's parent company, The Walt Disney Company which created the Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International segment in March 2018, ABC News' Digital and Live Streaming, including ABC News Live and FiveThirtyEight, were transferred to the new segment. In May 2019, ABC News Live, an news focused steaming channel, was launched on Roku. On September 10, 2018, ABC News launched a second attempt to extend its Good Morning America brand into the afternoon with Strahan, Sara and Keke. In April 2018, it was announced that FiveThirtyEight would be transferred to ABC News from ESPN, Inc., majority owned by The Walt Disney Company. On September 20, 2019, ABC Radio was renamed as ABC Audio as the network has evolved to offer a podcast portfolio and other forms of on-demand and linear content. The change occurred following the announcement that Cumulus would replace its ABC News radio service with Westwood One News (via CNN). On August 7, 2014, ABC announced that it would relaunch its radio network division, ABC Radio, on January 1, 2015. Additionally, ABC News signed a multi-year content deal with AP for its affiliate video service, Associated Press Television News (APTV), while providing material from ABC's news video service, ABC News One, to APTV. In June 1998, ABC News (which owned an 80% stake in the service), Nine Network and ITN sold their respective interests in Worldwide Television News to the Associated Press. ĪBC News' longtime slogan, 'More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source.' (introduced in the late 1980s), was a claim referring to the number of people who watch, listen to and read ABC News content on television, radio and (eventually) the Internet, and not necessarily to the telecasts alone. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast 'model', created many of ABC News' most popular and enduring programs, including 20/20, World News Tonight, This Week, Nightline, and Primetime Live. With the appointment of then president of ABC Sports, Roone Arledge as president of ABC News in 1977, ABC invested the resources to make it a major source of news content.

ABC had fewer affiliate stations and a weaker prime-time programming slate to be able to support the network's news operations compared to the two larger networks, each of which had established their radio news operations during the 1930s.īy the 1970s, the network had effectively turned around, with its prime-time entertainment programs achieving stronger ratings and drawing in higher advertising revenue and profits to ABC overall. Until the early 1970s, ABC News programs and ABC in general consistently ranked third in viewership behind CBS and NBC news programs. Broadcasts continued as the ABC network expanded nationwide.

Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began soon after the network signed on its initial owned-and-operated television station (WJZ-TV, now WABC-TV) and production center in New York City in August 1948. NBC conducted the split voluntarily Template:Explain in the event that its appeal to the ruling was denied. The radio market was dominated by only a few companies, such as NBC and CBS. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States, specifically news and political broadcasting, and broaden the projected points of view.

4.1 Current television anchors, correspondents and reportersĪBC began in 1943 as the NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942.

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