ABC Owned Television Stations
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | TV broadcasting |
Predecessor | CC/ABC Broadcasting Group |
Founded | 1948 |
Headquarters | New York, New York , USA |
Number of locations | 8 |
Key people | Rebecca Campbell, President |
Services | Advertising |
Parent | Disney-ABC Television Group |
Divisions | Live Well Network |
Subsidiaries | ABC National Television Sales |
Website | ABC Owned Television Stations Group |
The ABC Owned Television Stations Group is a division of Disney-ABC Television Group that oversees the owned-and-operated stations of the American Broadcasting Company, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The group currently consists of eight stations plus ABC National Television Sales and the Live Well Network.
History
ABC Network
The ABC Network's first TV station signed on August 10, 1948 as WJZ-TV,[1] the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. KGO-TV in San Francisco and KECA in Los Angeles, would sign on during the next 13 months after WJZ.[citation needed]
Capital Cities/ABC
- See: Capital Cities/ABC
Capital Cities' announced $3.5 billion purchase of ABC on March 18, 1985, stunned the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time.[2][3]
Disney/ABC division
The ABC Owned TV Stations were paired with ABC Radio Network and eight TV stations in CC/ABC Broadcasting Group in Capital Cities/ABC (CC/ABC) when CC/ABC was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1996.[4][5] In June, ABC top marketing officer announced the O&O stations would adopt a "one-channel" marketing strategy where the stations would for promotional purposes drop call letter for ABC and channel number as the marketer had this adopted at NBC before.[6]
The Live Well Network was launched on April 27, 2009 in high definition by ABC's owned-and-operated stations on the stations' subchannels.[7][8]
On November 3, 2010, Broadcasting & Cable magazine announced that SJL Broadcasting, now owned by the principal owners of Lilly Broadcasting, made an agreement with Disney to buy back WJRT-TV and WTVG, the two smallest stations in ABC's O&O portfolio.[9] The sale was completed on April 1, 2011.[10]
Units
- ABC National Television Sales, Inc.
- ABC Regional Sports & Entertainment Sales
- Live Well Network
List of ABC owned-and-operated stations
Market Rank & City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV / DT |
Owned since | Affiliation |
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1. New York City | WABC-TV[note 1] | 7 / 7 | 1948 | ABC |
2. Los Angeles | KABC-TV[note 1] | 7 / 7 | 1949 | ABC |
3. Chicago | WLS-TV[note 1] | 7 / 44 | 1948 | ABC |
4. Philadelphia | WPVI-TV [note 2] | 6 / 6 | 1986 | ABC |
6. San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose | KGO-TV[note 1] | 7 / 7 | 1949 | ABC |
10. Houston | KTRK-TV[note 2] | 13 / 13 | 1986 | ABC |
24. Durham - Raleigh - Fayetteville | WTVD[note 2] | 11 / 11 | 1986 | ABC |
55. Fresno, California | KFSN-TV[note 2] | 30 / 30 | 1986 | ABC |
Former ABC-owned stations
City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV / DT |
Years owned | sold to |
---|---|---|---|---|
Detroit | WXYZ-TV[note 1] | 7 / 41 | 1948-1986 | ABC affiliate owned by E.W. Scripps Company |
Flint - Saginaw - Bay City, MI | WJRT-TV[11] | 12 / 12 | 1995-2011 | ABC affiliate owned by SJL Broadcasting |
Toledo, Ohio | WTVG[11] | 13 / 13 | 1995-2011 | ABC affiliate owned by SJL Broadcasting |
References
- ^ "WJZ-TV starts; elaborate inaugural program." Broadcasting - Telecasting, August 16, 1948, pg. 23.
- ^ Kleinfield, N.R. "ABC is being sold for $3.5 billion; 1st network sale." The New York Times, March 19, 1985.
- ^ "Capcities + ABC." Broadcasting, March 25, 1985, pp. 31-32.
- ^ Fabrikant, Geraldine. THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal January 05, 1996. The New York Times. Accessed July 8, 2013.
- ^ "FACT SHEET: THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY". Press Release. The Walt Disney Company. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
- ^ McClellan, Steve and Chris McDonnell. Cohen: One channel, one network. June 10, 1996. Broadcasting & Cable.
- ^ ABC O&Os Launch Digital Network, Broadcasting & Cable, April 27, 2009
- ^ ABC Multicasts Live Well HD Channel, Mediaweek, October 25, 2009
- ^ Grego, Melissa (November 3, 2010). "EXCLUSIVE: Disney to Sell Two Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ Exclusive: New GMs For Former ABC O&Os in Flint, Toledo Broadcasting & Cable. March 31, 2011.
- ^ a b On November 4, 2010 ABC announced the sale of WJRT-TV and WTVG to previous owner SJL Broadcasting. The sale was completed April 1, 2011. ([1])
External links
- Official website
- List of ABC Owned Television Stations website
- ABC Full Circle.com, ABC National Television Sales website
- ABC Regional Sports & Entertainment Sales