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51 unusual facts about American Broadcasting Company


1961 FA Cup Final

The telecast was shown in its entirety in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on Wide World of Sports two weeks later on May 20.

1964–65 NBA season

ABC started televising the Sunday afternoon Game-Of-The-Week.

1979 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 19, 1979, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1984 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 19, 1984, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1988 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 21, 1988, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1990 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 19, 1990, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1999 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 15, 1999, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

ABC Network

American Broadcasting Company, a private television network in the United States

Arnold Eidus

Eidus served as Concertmaster for the American Broadcasting Company, performing on and directing a weekly chamber music series.

Bringin' On the Heartbreak

It was originally filmed (along with clips for "Let It Go" and "High 'n' Dry") as part of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert television series on the U.S. network ABC.

Byodo-In Temple

The temple and its vicinity also served as a stand-in for South Korea in one episode of the ABC series Lost and as the Presidential Villa in an episode of seaQuest DSV.

Cane River

Cane River Lake was widely publicized between 1966 and 1979 by the nationally known outdoorsman Grits Gresham, host (with Curt Gowdy) of ABC's The American Sportsman and author of numerous books and columns on hunting, fishing, and guns.

Christopher Turk

As of April 2009, the message is Dr. Cox advertising the new season on ABC.

Craig Slocum

He was best known for his roles of Noah Gifford and Harry Johnson on the cult television series Dark Shadows, which was broadcast on ABC.

Defiance County, Ohio

The closeness of elections in Defiance County has also been referenced in fiction; the ABC political drama Scandal in their second season had as the center of the ongoing plot of the first half of that season, a vote manipulation conspiracy which bent the presidential election towards Republican candidate Fitzgerald Grant based on tampering of the voting machines in Defiance County.

Draper's Meadow massacre

The story of Ingles' ordeal has inspired a number of books, films, and living history programs, including the popular 1981 novel Follow the River by James Alexander Thom, a 1995 ABC television movie of the same name, and the 2004 film The Captives.

Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship

The championship was the first surfing event to be broadcast on a regular basis by ABC's Wide World of Sports.

Ed Kemmer

In 1958, he guest-starred in two consecutive episodes of the ABC\Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role.

Erich Priebke

In April 1994, ABC News reporter Sam Donaldson traveled to Bariloche with Phillips and camera crews to confront Priebke with their research in behalf of the ABC Television news magazine Primetime Live.

Francesca Happé

She has contributed to the public understanding of science with television appearances including BBC QED, Open University, and Horizon, as well as radio interviews for World Service, BBC and ABC.

Franklin Hills, Los Angeles

Opened in 1915 as the Vitagraph Studio, the legendary lot later became the Warner Brothers Studios East Hollywood Annex, then home of the ABC Television Center and local affiliate KABC, finally becoming part of the Disney Corporation in 1996, which owns and operates it to this day.

Grace Metalious

A prime time television series that aired on ABC-TV from 1964 through 1969 was a ratings success as well.

Heidelberg High School

Elizabeth Vargas - ABC news anchor, graduated from Heidelberg High School in 1980.

Jerusalem Christian Review

Hosted by Jerusalem Christian Review Managing Editor Dan Mazar, parts of the Global Prayer were also shown on the CNN, CBS, and ABC television networks and almost 120 other television stations worldwide.

Keith Varon

An independent soft rock musician, several of his songs have been selected to appear on different TV shows, such as MTV's Laguna Beach and its spin-off The Hills as well as Next, ABC's What About Brian and Paradise City on E!.

KTUC

By 1977, it was airing a 20-minute newsreel format, with CBS, ABC and Mutual radio newscasts leading each piece of the pie—ABC and Mutual were both tape-delayed.

Lil E. Tee

ABC television announcer Dave Johnson exclaimed "Arazi is flying" as the colt went seven wide, sweeping past horse after horse to move into third place, tightly bunched with the leaders.

Melody Gilbert

Her short documentary Jamie Butcher Dies at Home was shown on ABC's Prime Time Live.

Mercer, Pennsylvania

Mercer is mentioned briefly in a fifth season episode of the ABC series Castle, when a USB drive is retrieved and shows a picture of a crime scene in Mercer.

National Broadcasting Co. v. United States

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its networks and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

New York Television Festival

It features a "Premiere Week" screening series, which now debuts new shows from networks including NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The CW, and HBO.

Oberstdorf

The American Broadcasting Company's Wide World of Sports inadvertently featured Oberstdorf when Vinko Bogataj fell during the ski jump in 1970 and became "The Agony of Defeat".

Once Upon a Mattress

The third television version, which aired on December 18, 2005 on ABC in the US as part of The Wonderful World of Disney and was released on DVD two days later, starred Carol Burnett as Queen Aggravain, Denis O'Hare as Prince Dauntless, Tom Smothers as King Sextimus, Tracey Ullman as Princess Winnifred, Zooey Deschanel as Lady Larken, and Matthew Morrison as Sir Harry.

Operation CHASE

In 1970, 58 separate reports were aired on the three major network news programs on NBC, ABC and CBS concerning Operation CHASE.

Paul Picerni

(December 1, 1922 – January 12, 2011), was an American actor with a long, distinguished career in film and television, perhaps best known today in the role of Federal Agent Lee Hobson, second-in-command to Robert Stack's Eliot Ness in the ABC hit television series, The Untouchables.

Between 1957 and 1960, Picerni was cast three times in different roles, the last as Duke Blaine, on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.

Peter Kastner

Kastner also starred in the 1968–1969 ABC sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town, where he played Timothy Blair, a man who dressed in drag as a favour to his photographer brother.

Peter O. Knight Airport

The home was later demolished and rebuilt by ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Sonya Walger

Sonya Walger (born 6 June 1974) is an English actress known for her roles in the ABC series Lost as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, and as Olivia Benford on ABC's FlashForward.

Southernaires

In 1948-49, they hosted a 30-minute show, The Southernaires Quartet, Sundays at 7:30pm ET on the American Broadcasting Company television network.

Stonebridge Press

Former executives with Capital Cities/ABC purchased the newspapers that now make up Stonebridge in a foreclosure sale from Loren F. Ghiglione in 1995.

Texas John Slaughter

Texas John Slaughter (TV series), the television series produced by Walt Disney for ABC

The Deadly Attachment

In 1976, the episode script was selected as the basis of an unsuccessful pilot episode for an American Broadcasting Company adaptation called The Rear Guard.

The Dirty Tricks

Two other songs were used on Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race on ABC.

The Good Luck Joes

In September 2006, their lead song from "What Do You Think...?", "Middle of Me", was used in promo spots for the ABC show Six Degrees and the band made some national waves.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

A film adaptation was broadcast by the U.S. ABC television network in 1968, one hour a night over three nights.

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy

Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery, well known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched, as Beauty and Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.

This Is Not My Life

Though the show only lasted one season, it has been announced American network ABC has purchased the series to adapt for an American audience.

Tom Conway

From 1951–1954, Conway played debonair British police detective Mark Saber, who worked in the homicide division of a large American city, in the ABC series entitled Inspector Mark Saber – Homicide Detective.

WALK-FM

The WALK Breakfast Club, the weekday morning show hosted by Mark Daniels and Cindy, was featured on ABC's Good Morning America in December 2005.

World Entertainment News Network

It began as the World Rock News Network (WRNN) and the company soon established a niche for itself, providing music news to subscribers including MTV, BBC, ABC and Russia's daily youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.


1983 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 21, 1983, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

Brian G. Hutton

In 1958, he played a young gunfighter, "The Kid", in the episode "Yampa Crossing" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role, with fellow guest stars Roger Smith and Harold J. Stone.

Brian Writes a Bestseller

It was watched by 6.59 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with the 38th Annual American Music Awards on ABC, Undercover Boss on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC.

Carly Steel

She has appeared in several feature films including Unstoppable and made television appearances such as on ABC’s Castle, CBS' We Are Men and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Come on Do the Jerk

The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, performed a cover of this song on a 1964 telecast of the ABC TV series, Shindig!.

Connor Paolo

Connor Paolo (born July 11, 1990) is an American actor, best known of his roles as Eric van der Woodsen in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl and Declan Porter in the ABC drama series Revenge.

Cubby O'Brien

O'Brien was a contestant on the ABC game show The Big Showdown in the mid-1970s, winning $5,000 for rolling "Show Down" during the timed dice roll round.

David O. Selznick

But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.

Dianne Kay

Dianne Kay (born March 29, 1954, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress, best known for her role as Nancy Bradford on the ABC television show Eight is Enough (1977–1981).

Garth Fisher

Garth Fisher, M.D. (born September 1, 1958), is an American plastic surgeon best known as the first doctor selected for the ABC television show Extreme Makeover, so bringing plastic surgery into the public domain through the media.

Hart of Dixie

On May 20, 2011, it was announced that Nancy Travis would not continue with the series due to her commitments with the 20th Century Fox-produced ABC sitcom Last Man Standing.

Home Alone 4

Home Alone 4 (also known as Home Alone: Taking Back the House) is a 2002 American made-for-television Christmas family comedy film directed by Rod Daniel, which first aired on ABC on November 3, 2002.

I Wanna Date a Race Car Driver

The format was similar to ABC's The Bachelor, although contestants competed for dates with racing stars, like NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Jon Wood, and not for their hand in marriage.

James F. Reda

Reda regularly appears on business news segments and has been featured on Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox Business News, BBC World Radio Service, ABC News, Bloomberg TV, and the CBS Early Show.

Jamie Silberhartz

Jamie Silberhartz is an actress noted for having appeared as Rachel Blake in The Lost Experience, an internet-based alternate-reality-game (ARG) related to the ABC television show, Lost.

Jay Silverheels

In 1966, he guest-starred as John Tallgrass in the short-lived ABC comedy/western series The Rounders, with Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

Jon L. Mills

He has appeared on CNN's "Burden of Proof," Public Television's "Lehr Report," National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media.

Kelo Henderson

Henderson's first screen appearance was as Doc Pardes in the 1957 episode "The Brand" of the ABC western Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker.

Ken Leung

Kenneth "Ken" Leung (born January 21, 1970) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Miles Straume in the ABC television series Lost and roles in such films as Shanghai Kiss, Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Saw.

Kim Milford

In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip.

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

LaGrange, Georgia

Tom Jarriel, ABC news correspondent, was born in LaGrange in 1934.

Larry Kane

In 1965, he came to Philadelphia as an anchor for WFIL Radio and as main anchor for its sister station WFIL-TV, Philadelphia's ABC affiliate.

Late-night news

In the United States, late-night local news is traditionally broadcast at 11:00 pm local time on stations affiliated with the Big Three television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) as well as those owned and operated by CTV and Global in Canada that are in the Eastern Time Zone or the Pacific Time Zone.

Merl Lindsay

In 1957, Lindsay joined ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, taking over the ten-piece Ozark Jubilee Band.

Nellie Cashman

The 1959-1960 season of the ABC television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian starring as Wyatt Earp, featured a fictional character based on Nellie Cashman and played by actress Randy Stuart.

Peter Knecht

Knecht has appeared as a television analyst and consultant on criminal justice for major news outlets, including national CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX broadcasts, and locally for KCAL-TV-Channel 9 and KCOP-TV-Channel 13.

Quincy, Illinois

With regards to television service, Quincy and the surrounding region are served by affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and the CW networks.

Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q

It was watched by 5.97 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Desperate Housewives on ABC, The Amazing Race on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC.

Sleeping Beauty

In the ABC TV show Once Upon a Time, Sleeping Beauty (named Aurora after the Disney version) is portrayed by Sarah Bolger, and Prince Phillip is played by Julian Morris.

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

Superstar Limo

Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities (some of whom appeared at the time on ABC shows.) The celebrities were Joan Rivers (appearing only in puppet-form on TV screens in the attraction's queue), Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Team Tiger

He has been featured on national television programs, including: Dr. Oz, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Anderson Cooper 360, NBC and ABC affiliates and was a featured speaker at the Georgia Children’s Health Alliance ‘Refocus’ Launch.

The Comeback Story

The Comeback Story is a half-hour drama reality show which aired on ABC from October 2, 1953 to February 5, 1954, in which celebrities explain how they overcame physical disabilities or other kinds of adverse fortunes in their lives.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

The Vanishing Duck

O'Hanlon would go on to star as the voice of George Jetson on the ABC-TV animated series, The Jetsons, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, four years later.

Victor Wolfson

In 1961, he wrote several episodes for ABC's 26-part television series Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years which earned him an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.

Vietnam Requiem

Vietnam Requiem was an ABC News Closeup Series television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord.

Walker Edmiston

In 1966, Edmiston had a recurring role as Regan in the short-lived ABC comedy western series, The Rounders with co-stars Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

WBKP

Owned by the Marks Radio Group, WBKP is sister to ABC affiliate WBUP and the two stations share studios on Ash Street in Ishpeming of Ishpeming Township.