The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948. As one of the Big Three television networks, its programming has contributed to American popular culture.
Corporate headquarters is in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, while programming offices are in Burbank, California adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the corporate headquarters of The Walt Disney Company.
The formal name of the operation is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright notices for its in-house network productions and on all official documents of the company, including paychecks and contracts. A separate entity named ABC Inc., formerly Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is that firm's direct parent company, and that company is owned in turn by Disney. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Alphabet Network", due to the letters "ABC" being the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, in order.
Distribution Strategy
Noble finally found an investor in United Paramount Theaters (UPT). Divorced from Paramount Pictures at the end of 1949 by Supreme Court order, UPT had plenty of money on hand and was not afraid to spend it. UPT head Leonard Goldenson immediately set out to find investment opportunities. Shortly after the ABC-UPT merger, Goldenson approached DuMont with a merger offer. Goldenson and DuMont's managing director, Ted Bergmann, quickly agreed to a deal. However, Paramount vetoed the sale. By 1956, the DuMont network had shut down.
After its acquisition by UPT, ABC at last had the means to offer a full-time television network service. By mid-1953, Goldenson had begun a two-front campaign, calling on his connections at the Hollywood studios (he had been head of the Paramount theater chain since 1938) to convince them to move into programming. He also convinced long-time NBC and CBS affiliates in several markets to move to ABC. His two-part campaign paid off when the "new" ABC hit the air on October 27, 1954. Among the shows that brought in record audiences was Disneyland, produced by and starring Walt Disney. MGM, Warner Bros., and Twentieth Century-Fox were also present that first season. Within two years, Warner Bros. was producing ten hours of programming for ABC each week, mostly interchangeable detective and western series. The mid-1950s saw ABC finally have shows in the top-10, including Disneyland. However, it still had a long way to go. It was relegated to secondary status in many markets until the late 1960s, and in some cases well into the 1980s.
SkyView(R) Media Group, Inc. today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company(TM) (EABC(TM)), has become SkyView World Media, LLC. The change of name is effective immediately.
"Our company is taking a new corporate identity that truly represents what we have worked so hard to become: a new media bridge between the cultures of the world and the peoples of the world who live in North America," says David Moro, President and CEO. "In a very short time, SkyView World Media has become the largest multi-cultural programmer with the ability to both produce and distribute multi-language media services from coast-to-coast."
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SkyView World Media already offers fifteen foreign-language television channels from around the globe:
- ana, Egyptian Satellite Channel and Nile Drama (Arabic) - Chinese Movie Channel and ECom (Chinese) - CIAO TV and Video Italia (Italian) - ERT (Greek) - GMA and VIVA Cinema (Filipino) - WMNB-TV (Russian) - Network Asia and Sony Entertainment Television (Asian/Indian) - Ukrainian Broadcasting Network (Ukrainian) - Vietnamese Broadcasting Network (Vietnamese)
"We've been able to build SkyView World Media by earning the confidence of an expanding community of subscribers to these services," says Moro. "There are millions more people in this country who stand to benefit from the access to high quality programming from around the world that we can deliver directly to their homes by cable or satellite. By combining the ethnic appeal of our networks with the reach of our distribution infrastructure, we are well positioned to market our powerful channel brands under the SkyView World Media banner right across the country."
SkyView World Media channels offer in-language entertainment and information programming 24-hours per day, seven days a week. Movies, news, sports, cultural events, music/concerts, soap operas, children's and family shows are all part of the line-up.
Corporate headquarters is in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, while programming offices are in Burbank, California adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the corporate headquarters of The Walt Disney Company.
The formal name of the operation is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright notices for its in-house network productions and on all official documents of the company, including paychecks and contracts. A separate entity named ABC Inc., formerly Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is that firm's direct parent company, and that company is owned in turn by Disney. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Alphabet Network", due to the letters "ABC" being the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, in order.
Distribution Strategy
Noble finally found an investor in United Paramount Theaters (UPT). Divorced from Paramount Pictures at the end of 1949 by Supreme Court order, UPT had plenty of money on hand and was not afraid to spend it. UPT head Leonard Goldenson immediately set out to find investment opportunities. Shortly after the ABC-UPT merger, Goldenson approached DuMont with a merger offer. Goldenson and DuMont's managing director, Ted Bergmann, quickly agreed to a deal. However, Paramount vetoed the sale. By 1956, the DuMont network had shut down.
After its acquisition by UPT, ABC at last had the means to offer a full-time television network service. By mid-1953, Goldenson had begun a two-front campaign, calling on his connections at the Hollywood studios (he had been head of the Paramount theater chain since 1938) to convince them to move into programming. He also convinced long-time NBC and CBS affiliates in several markets to move to ABC. His two-part campaign paid off when the "new" ABC hit the air on October 27, 1954. Among the shows that brought in record audiences was Disneyland, produced by and starring Walt Disney. MGM, Warner Bros., and Twentieth Century-Fox were also present that first season. Within two years, Warner Bros. was producing ten hours of programming for ABC each week, mostly interchangeable detective and western series. The mid-1950s saw ABC finally have shows in the top-10, including Disneyland. However, it still had a long way to go. It was relegated to secondary status in many markets until the late 1960s, and in some cases well into the 1980s.
SkyView(R) Media Group, Inc. today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company(TM) (EABC(TM)), has become SkyView World Media, LLC. The change of name is effective immediately.
"Our company is taking a new corporate identity that truly represents what we have worked so hard to become: a new media bridge between the cultures of the world and the peoples of the world who live in North America," says David Moro, President and CEO. "In a very short time, SkyView World Media has become the largest multi-cultural programmer with the ability to both produce and distribute multi-language media services from coast-to-coast."
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SkyView World Media already offers fifteen foreign-language television channels from around the globe:
- ana, Egyptian Satellite Channel and Nile Drama (Arabic) - Chinese Movie Channel and ECom (Chinese) - CIAO TV and Video Italia (Italian) - ERT (Greek) - GMA and VIVA Cinema (Filipino) - WMNB-TV (Russian) - Network Asia and Sony Entertainment Television (Asian/Indian) - Ukrainian Broadcasting Network (Ukrainian) - Vietnamese Broadcasting Network (Vietnamese)
"We've been able to build SkyView World Media by earning the confidence of an expanding community of subscribers to these services," says Moro. "There are millions more people in this country who stand to benefit from the access to high quality programming from around the world that we can deliver directly to their homes by cable or satellite. By combining the ethnic appeal of our networks with the reach of our distribution infrastructure, we are well positioned to market our powerful channel brands under the SkyView World Media banner right across the country."
SkyView World Media channels offer in-language entertainment and information programming 24-hours per day, seven days a week. Movies, news, sports, cultural events, music/concerts, soap operas, children's and family shows are all part of the line-up.
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