American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (transkr. Amerikan broudkasting kampani (Ej-Bi-Si)) je američki komercijalni radio i televizijska mreža koja se nalazi u vlasništvu Disney Media Networks divizije The Walt Disney Company. Sedište mreže se nalazi u Berbanku, na Riverside Drive, direktno prekoputa Walt Disney Studios i susedno od Roy E. Disney Animation Building. Sekundarne kancelarije mreže i sedište njenog odeljenja za vesti se nalazi u Njujorku.

American Broadcasting Company
Tip	televizijska mreža (1948–danas) radio mreža (1943–2007, 2014–danas)
Zemlja	SAD
Osnivanje	15. maj 1943. god. (1943-05-15) O: Edvard J. Nobl i Luj Blanč
Sedište	Berbank (radiodifuzno) i Menhetn (korporativno)
Vlasnik	The Walt Disney Company
Datum pokretanja	Radio: 12. oktobar 1943. god. (1943-10-12) Televizija: 19. april 1948. god. (1948-04-19)
Bivša imena	Blue Network
Format slike	720p (HDTV)
Veb-sajt	abc.com
Prethodnik	Blue Network

Od 2007. godine, kada je ABC Radio (sada poznat kao Cumulus Media Networks) prodat kompaniji Citadel Broadcasting, ABC je smanjio svoje emitovanje gotovo isključivo na televiziju. Predstavlja petu najstariju veliku radiodifuznu mrežu na svetu i najmlađu od tri velike televizijske mreže. Nadimak mreže ABC je „The Alphabet Network”, koji predstavlja akronim i prva tri slova engleskog alfabeta, po redu.

ABC je pokrenut 1943. godine kao radio mreža, kao naslednik NBC Blue Network, koji je kupio Edvard J. Nobl. Produžio je svoje operacije 1948. godine na televiziju, nakon koraka osnivanja televizijskih mreža CBS i NBC. Sredinom 1950-ih, ABC je spojen sa United Paramount Theatres, lancem filmskih bioskopa koji su ranije funkcionisali kao podružnice Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldensan je bio predsedavajući UPT, učinio je novu televizijsku mrežu profitabilnom pomažući u razvoju i pokretanju mnogih uspešnih serija. Tokom 1980-ih, nakon kupovine 80 procenata interesta u kablovskom sportskom kanalu ESPN, korporativni vlasnik mreže, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., spojen je sa Capital Cities Communications, vlasnikom nekoliko štamparskih publikacija i televizijskim i radio stanicama. Godine 1996, većinu imovine Capital Cities/ABC kupio je Disney.

ABC ima osam funkcionalnih stanica i preko 232 afilijativnih televizijskih mreža u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama i njenim teritorijama. Neke ABC afijalisane stanice takođe mogu biti viđene u Kanadi, preko pretplatničkih televizijskih operatera, i neke druge pridružene kompanije mogu se takođe primati preko vazduha u oblastima u blizini granice sa Kanadom i Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama. ABC News pruža vesti i sadržaj za odabrane radio-stanice čiji je vlasnik Cumulus Media, zbog toga što su one vlasništvo ranijeg ABC Radio.

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Spoljašnje veze

• Zvanični veb-sajt
• Unofficial history of ABC's East Coast production facilities and West Coast production facilities