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55 unusual facts about American Broadcasting Company


1962–63 NBA season

SNI begins televising NBA games, which they would do until the end of the 1963-64 season, when long time NBA broadcast partner ABC would begin televising games.

1978 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 20, 1978, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1979 Preakness Stakes

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

1980 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 17, 1980, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1986 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 17, 1986, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1987 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 16, 1987, 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.

2001 in Australian television

11 September – Television networks relay coverage from CNN, NBC, ABC America and the BBC for up to 48 hours in the wake of the 11 September attacks.

2011–12 WNBL season

ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00PM at every standard time in Australia.

Australia II

The achievement was underscored when Australia II was awarded the ABC Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year for 1983.

Bayway Refinery

The refinery has had and continues to have environmental issues; a 2010 investigative report conducted by WABC-TV, the ABC flagship station in New York City, characterizes the Bayway Refinery as a "repeat offender" of environmental regulations.

Bill Toomey

A graduate of Worcester Academy and the University of Colorado, Toomey was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1968.

Bob Rosburg

Robert Reginald "Rossie" Rosburg (October 21, 1926 – May 14, 2009) was an American professional golfer who later became a sports color analyst for ABC television.

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.

Burma Global Action Network

Major figureheads such as Whoopi Goldberg of ABC’s The View, Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook, James K. Glassman, Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Oscar Morales, Founder, One Million Voices Against the FARC, Luke Russert, MSNBC, Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

Christopher Turk

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

CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory

In October 1968, Johnson told veteran newsman Howard K. Smith of ABC that "Kennedy was trying to get to Castro, but Castro got to him first."

Clock King

In the 1960s Batman TV series, the Clock King was portrayed by Walter Slezak in the season two consecutive episodes, '"The Clock King's Crazy Crimes" and "The Clock King Gets Crowned," which ABC transmitted on October 12 and October 13, 1966. The two-parter was written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger and Charles Sinclair and directed by James Neilson.

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.

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.

Francis Newton Littlejohn

(July 20, 1908 – November 24, 2005) was the news director at the American Broadcasting Company that made the decision to cover the Army-McCarthy Hearings live, from gavel to gavel.

Getty Oil

At one point, Getty Oil owned a majority stake of ESPN, before it was sold to the American Broadcasting Company in 1984.

Golden Choice

Noted ABC sportscaster Jim McKay said of the book: "there are more good stories in horse racing than in any other sport. This is one of them."

Hastings, Florida

The town was briefly in the spotlight when the American Broadcasting Company television network show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featured the Harvey family in a show aired on April 24, 2005.

Heidelberg High School

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

Joy Swift

Joy’s Original Murder Weekends have been filmed by crews from all over the world, including ABC, CBS, Antenne 2 and the BBC Holiday programme twice (1983 and 2006).

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!.

Kermit Schaefer

Other similar famous finds of Schafer's include ABC correspondent Joel Daly intoning, "The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse," and veteran radio host Paul Harvey breaking into uncontrollable laughter at a story about a pet poodle.

KQOB

On November 24, 2000 its call sign became KMMZ, moved to a tower closer to Oklahoma City, changed its slogan to Memories 96.9, and began using the ABC Network’s “Memories” network for its programming.

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.

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.

Murray Matheson

In 1960 and 1961, he was cast as Geoffrey Carey in "The Archer's Ring" and as the High Priest in "The Perils of Penrose", respectively, on the ABC series, Adventures in Paradise, starring Gardner McKay.

Nancy Pinkerton

Pinkerton is perhaps best known as the original actress to play Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1973 to 1977, a period which would establish the character as the prime nemesis to the series' longrunning heroine, Victoria Lord (portrayed since 1971 by multiple Daytime Emmy-winner Erika Slezak).

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).

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 Picard

After starting as an actor, Picard was the director of daytime programming for ABC.

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.

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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.

Radiovision

A subsidiary company called Radiovision Broadcast International which was formed in 1966 by Pearl & Dean, originally to represent the marketing interests of American Broadcasting Company in Europe and during the same year to represent the sale of advertising time on the offshore pirate radio stations Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio.

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.

Supermoto

Supermoto has its origins in the 1970s where ABC’s Wide World of Sports was the highest-rated sports show in the United States.

Ted Constant Convocation Center

Global Spectrum of the Constant Center donated over 2,300 items to benefit local food banks for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Wayne Collett

In an interview after the medal ceremony with the American Broadcasting Company, Collett said the national anthem meant nothing to him.


1964–65 NBA season

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

1983 Preakness Stakes

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

Al Baker

He appeared on the ABC-TV show Shark Tank on December 6, 2013 in which investor and entrepreneur Daymond John agreed to invest, for a 30 percent share, in Queen Ann Inc., the food company started by Baker and Baker's children, Brittany Bo Baker and James Albert London Baker.

Athens, Vermont

The construction was filmed in September 2007, the episode aired December 9, 2007, on ABC.

Billy Aaron Brown

In 2002, Billy got his big break playing Kyle in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules alongside John Ritter, Katey Sagal, and Kaley Cuoco.

Brandon Jacobs

On October 19, 2012, Jacobs appeared, with Pro NRG founder, Tania Patruno, to pitch the fledgling company's protein supplement/energy drink and hopefully score the venture some investment capital on episode #406 of ABC's Shark Tank.

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.

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.

Dave Annable

In 2006, Annable appeared in ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters alongside Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, and Sally Field.

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.

George H. W. Bush vomiting incident

Footage of the President vomiting was broadcast on the ABC network, and Saturday Night Live presented a parody skit of the incident in the form of an Oliver Stone conspiracy movie.

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

Grumpy Old Man

It was watched by 6.10 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on ABC, The Amazing Race on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC.

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.

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster is an American sitcom that ran on ABC during the 1962-63 season (co-sponsored by Procter & Gamble and Consolidated Cigar's El Producto), and was created and produced by Leonard Stern, filmed at Desilu.

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.

Jayce Bartok

In the 1990s, his TV appearances included an ABC unsold pilot entitled Coconut Downs, a recurring role on the Judith Ivey sitcom Down Home (NBC, 1991), an episode of NBC's Law & Order, and the pilot episode of its spin-off Criminal Intent.

Jo Ann Harris

She also had a co-starring role in the short-lived 1977 ABC police series Most Wanted (starring Robert Stack) as well as a small role in the Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series).

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.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

From 2001 to 2008, Williams-Paisley played the role of Dana in the ABC sitcom According to Jim, opposite Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith.

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.

LaMarcus Tinker

He is best known for his roles as teenage football star Dallas Tinker on the NBC and Direct TV television drama Friday Night Lights, and as Kevin on the ABC comedy Cougar Town.

Look Who's Talking

The success of the first two films also inspired an ABC sitcom called Baby Talk, which aired from 1991–92 and featured Tony Danza as the voice of "Baby Mickey." John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and Olympia Dukakis are the only actors to appear in all three films in the series.

LRL301 Radio Disney

The station is currently owned by Difusora Baires S.A. (Radio Medios S.A., Disney Argentina and ABC Venture Corp.), and features programing from Radio Disney.

Marvin Philip

Philip appeared as an entrepreneur on the October 5, 2012, episode of the ABC television show Shark Tank.

Natasha Alexandra

The song "Find Love", co-written by Natasha and Byron Wong, gained fame when it was featured in the ending scenes of the fourth episode of season 5 (titled A Righteous Kiss) of ABC's TV series Brothers & Sisters, on October 17, 2010.

No More Good Days

Goyer also directed the episode, which originally aired in the United States on ABC on September 24, 2009.

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.

Peter O. Knight Airport

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

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (titled Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano for the sing-a-long videocasette release) is an animated musical television special written by Dr. Seuss, directed by Gerard Baldwin, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, completed in 1979 and first aired on ABC on May 2, 1980.

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.

Something Wilder

Smith continued in her role as D.A. Nora Gannon on One Life to Live sporadically during the run of this series (despite the fact that OLTL was on a competing network, ABC), and resumed it full-time when Something Wilder was canceled.

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.

Sylvia Field

Field continued in television guest spots during the 1960s, including on the ABC sitcoms Our Man Higgins with Stanley Holloway and Hazel.

The Ferguson Syndrome

The pilot was originally written by Michael Petroni as a screenplay for Touchstone, but was later adapted into a teleplay for ABC by Richard Hatem.

The King Sisters

In 1965, they began hosting their own ABC television-network series, The King Family Show, which featured family members including Alyce's husband, actor Robert Clarke, and her sons, Ric and Lex de Azevedo, and Cam Clarke, as well as other talent.

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.

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.

William T. Orr

As the first head of Warner Bros. Television department, Orr forged a fruitful alliance with ABC, which resulted in the network having a number of prime time hits, such as Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and F Troop.