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17 unusual facts about ABC News


CollegeWeekLive

CollegeWeekLive has been featured in the media including ABC News, The Washington Post, Fox 25 News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, USA Today and The New York Times.

Ed Blizzard

Blizzard's work has garnered widespread media attention from prominent media outlets such as, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and ABC News.

Everyday Health

It also hired Paul Slavin, a veteran producer from ABC News, to help operate a new studio for the company.

Fayez Banihammad

After the attacks it was reported by ABC News that somebody with the same name had attended the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base - a claim that may have been born of a false address Banihammad had used.

Florida's 16th congressional district election, 2006

On September 28, 2006, ABC News reported that Republican incumbent Mark Foley had sent email messages, from his personal AOL account, to a then-16-year-old former Congressional page, asking the page to send a photo of himself to Foley, among other things that were overtly sexual in nature.

Fuel Freedom International

A study conducted by ABC News affiliate WPVI found no improvement at lower speeds and only a 4% improvement at highway speeds.

Gentech Pharmaceutical

ABC News identified the company as one that manufactures "Adderall knockoffs".

German acupuncture trials

ABC News reported that the study "highlights the superiority of acupuncture", but also introduces uncertainty about the specific mechanisms of treatment.

Gold Coast University Hospital

However, on Opening day, ABC News reporter Stephanie Capper made no comments that the $1.76 billion hospital had any facilities or fittings cut back.

Jorge Scientific Corporation

The company made international headlines in October 2012 when two former employees leaked a video to ABC News showing key personnel at the company drunk or under the influence of narcotics during parties that were allegedly thrown “every other day” at the Jorge Scientific operations centre in Kabul.

KNTX

Much of the schedule consists of news headlines from ABC News, CBS News, and the Texas State Network with the rest of the schedule filled with community news and classic hits from Cumulus Media Networks' "Classic Hits" satellite feed and more.

Pumalín Park

id=3295673 ABC News nightly news broadcast profiling Pumalín Park on June 19, 2007

Scientology and abortion

In April 2008, Woodcraft appeared along with Scientology leader David Miscavige's niece Jenna Miscavige Hill on the ABC News program Nightline, and both asserted that Sea Org members who become pregnant are told to either leave or get an abortion.

The One Percent Doctrine

Richard Clarke told ABC News he is wary of the report about the New York City subway plot.

Trijicon

On January 18, 2010, ABC News reported that Trijicon was placing references to Biblical verses on the side of the ACOG sights sold to the United States military.

Vincent Cannistraro

Since leaving the CIA in 1991, after 27 years with the agency, Cannistraro has worked as a consultant on terrorism and security issues for a number of corporate and government clients, including ABC News and the Vatican.

WJKT

Despite being a Fox outlet, WJKT features national headlines coverage as provided through ABC NewsOne since it simulcasts an ABC-affiliated produced local news show from WLMT.


Adventist Health Studies

These studies have been the subject of significant national media coverage on programs such as ABC News: World News Tonight, Good Morning America and in the National Geographic feature article "Longevity: The Secrets of a Long Life".

Bai Yansong

He has also established several news programs on CCTV such as Timeline, modeled after Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC News.

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

In 2007, the CSBA's director, Andrew Krepinevich, admitted that it had hired Alexis Debat as a consultant; the man, who worked at Nixon Center and for ABC News, had been revealed by French newspaper Rue 89 as a fraud, leading to his dismissal from all responsibilities.

Christine Brennan

Brennan now is a sports columnist for USA Today, an on-air commentator for ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, NPR and Fox Sports radio and the author of seven books, including the national best-seller Inside Edge.

Collegiate Network

CN alumni include the editor of National Review Rich Lowry, CNN and ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, and best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza.

Doug Vogt

While on assignment in Iraq for ABC News with anchor Bob Woodruff, Vogt and Woodruff were both severely injured by a roadside bomb.

Felicity Davey

Felicity has previously hosted and been a fill in presenter on other ABC News programs, including The Midday Report, The 7.30 Report and Lateline.

Gaffney, South Carolina

The news spread quickly from the local newspaper to national and international media outlets including CNN, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC.

Gale Pollock

In 2007, an ABC News piece and a story by The Nation journalist Joshua Kors questioned Pollack's involvement in a brewing scandal involving personality disorder discharges from the military.

Gerald Celente

Hugo Lindgren and ABC News have labelled Celente's predictions "pessimism porn" for their doom and the alleged eschatological thrill some people receive from imagining his predictions of the collapse of civil society in the wake of a global economic crisis.

Gonzales v. Carhart

According to an ABC News poll, the majority of Americans (69%) oppose the legality of D&X or what opponents call "partial-birth" abortion.

Jorge Navarro Suárez

In 2010, Navarro was captured in an undercover video for ABC News during an event of the Council of United States Legislators in Louisville, Kentucky.

Justin Hopson

ABC News, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Star-Ledger, 20/20, and other media outlets have interviewed Justin Hopson about police corruption.

Katty Kay

On 2 June 2009, Harper Collins published Womenomics, a book written by Kay and ABC News' Good Morning America senior national correspondent Claire Shipman exploring the redefinition of success for working women based on recent trends of the value of women to the business world.

Kenneth Baer

He is the author of Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (University Press of Kansas, 2000), has published commentaries in publications such as Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, and has been a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and CBC.

Marcy Darnovsky

She has appeared on television and radio, and has also been cited by numerous sources, including ABC news, Associated Press, Nature, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Wired Science

Matthew Karatz

Prior to working in public service and the real estate industry, Karatz worked for ABC News and earned a News & Documentary Emmy Award for his work in investigative journalism.

Melanie Tait

She then began at the ABC in Darwin as a rural reporter trainee, she has since worked in ABC Rural and ABC News throughout New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory.

Michael E. Toner

In addition, Toner has appeared as a guest commentator on Fox News Channel, ABC News, CBS News, Bloomberg News, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, C-SPAN, The BBC, and National Public Radio.

Michael Oppenheimer

Dr. Oppenheimer has been a guest on many television and radio programs, including ABC's This Week, Nightline, Alcove, The News Hour, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Charlie Rose, ABC News and The Colbert Report.

Naval Air Station Bermuda

In 1992, a scathing investigative report by Sam Donaldson, of ABC News, labelled the base as the 'Club Med of the Navy', because of its questionable use by senior military officers and DoD civilian and other U.S. Government civilian officials as a de facto vacation retreat.

Nessa Feddis

Feddis predicted on various national news stations, including PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on ABC News that the Credit CARD Act would mean that credit card rates would increase generally, small businesses and consumers would find it harder to obtain credit, and limits would be lower.

Palmer R. Chitester Fund

Beginning in 1999, the Palmer R. Chitester Fund provided funding to ABC News reporter John Stossel for his "Stossel in the Classroom" program.

Reclaiming History

In 2007, Bugliosi told Cynthia McFadden of ABC News that in the preceding seven years he had devoted 80 to 100 hours per week working on the book.

Royal F. Oakes

Royal Forest Oakes, a longtime partner at the Los Angeles-based law firm Barger and Wolen, is best known for his work as a legal analyst, nationally for ABC News and the syndicated programs Inside Edition and Access Hollywood, and in Los Angeles, as NBC4 Legal Analyst for KNBC Television, and KFWB All-News Radio.

The Rejection Show

The Rejection Show has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New York Times, The Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, The Onion, ABC News, CBS News Sunday Morning, NPR, XM Satellite Radio, and in international papers around the globe.

Tim Mahoney

On September 28, 2006, ABC News reported that Republican incumbent Mark Foley had sent email messages, from his personal AOL account, to a then-16-year-old former congressional page, asking the page to send a photo of himself to Foley, among other things that were overtly sexual in nature.

Whitney Fitzsimmons

During Fitzsimmons' ten years with the ABC she has held many positions ranging from senior producer of Lateline, anchor of Lateline Business, The World, Afternoon Live, The Drum, The Midday Report - summer edition, the current affairs program AustraliaWide and finance presenter on the Midday Report alongside Ros Childs, and reported nationally on ABC News on general news and business stories.

WRGV

For three years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the station played breaking news bulletins every hour on top of the hour (first provided by ABC News, then by Clear Channel Worldwide News), as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start and close of each workday.