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MEDIA NETWORKS - BROADCAST
BROADCAST NETWORKS INTRODUCTION
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Broadcast Networks Introduction
ABC Entertainment
Touchstone Television
ABC News
ABC Sports
ABC Daytime
ABC Kids
ABC Owned TV Stations
ABC HDTV


Bottom row, left to right: Mike Shaw, president, sales and marketing – Lloyd Braun, chairman, ABC Entertainment Television Group – Alex Wallau, president, ABC Television Network – David Westin, president, ABC News – Brian Frons, president, ABC Daytime – Susan Lyne, president, ABC Entertainment. Top row, left to right: Spencer Neumann, executive vice president – Steve McPherson, president, Touchstone Television – Michael Mellon, senior vice president, research – John Rouse, senior vice president, affiliate relations – Susan Binford, senior vice president, communications – Preston Davis, president, broadcast operations and engineering – Jim Hedges, senior vice president and chief financial officer – Mark Pedowitz, executive vice president, ABC Entertainment Television Group.

 

ABC, a leader in entertainment, news and sports television programming, serving 226 local television affiliates nationwide, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2003.

ABC is currently home to many of network television’s most popular primetime entertainment series, including My Wife and Kids, According to Jim, George Lopez, Alias, The Practice, NYPD Blue and The Wonderful World of Disney. Beyond primetime, viewers have come to know and trust ABC for its award-winning ABC News franchise. ABC News starts the day with Good Morning America, continues with World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and rounds out the evening with the late-night telecast of Nightline. In addition, ABC news content is distributed by its news magazines Primetime Thursday and 20/20. Monday Night Football, the most successful sports series in history, continues to be the jewel of ABC Sports. Home to “Championship Television,” ABC additionally showcases the finest of professional and college sports franchises, including the NBA and college football. With The View in the morning and outstanding soap operas General Hospital and All My Children in the afternoon, ABC Daytime has consistently won the ratings crown for more than a quarter-century. ABC Kids provides a platform for innovative and entertaining Saturday morning children’s programs from Disney and beyond. ABC.com is the official Web site of the network, offering abundant content from ABC’s entertainment, news and sports programming.

Related Links:
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