This single FCC action would render all Armstrong-era FM receivers useless within a short time as stations were moved to the new band, while it also protected both RCA's AM-radio stronghold and that of the other major competing networks, CBS, ABC and Mutual.

Over their career, the band has performed on numerous movie and television soundtracks, including The Oblongs, the ABC News miniseries Brave New World and Ed and His Dead Mother.

From 1949 through 1951, the band had its own national radio program on ABC, sponsored by " The Champagne of Bottle Beer " Miller High Life.

At the same time, a series of regulatory moves by the FCC opened up the more desirable VHF band for additional full power stations in sizable Eastern and Midwestern markets between 1958 and 1963, allowing ABC to acquire full-time affiliation agreements with additional full-coverage stations in key parts of the country.

Reaching an impasse with the parent band, Crosby and Nash decided to re-activate their partnership, inaugurating the duo act Crosby & Nash, touring regularly, signing to ABC Records and producing two additional studio albums, Wind On The Water in 1975 and Whistling Down The Wire in 1976.

In December 2008, Heaven 17 toured the UK as part of the Sheffield band based Steel City Tour alongside The Human League and ABC.

After realizing their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion they formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff " Skunk " Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed the band to ABC as recording artists.

This time, the band was credited as ‘’ The Shindigs ’’ to capitalize on the new ABC show, Shindig!

Additionally, in early 1978, the band appeared as themselves in two episodes of the ABC sitcom What's Happening !!

After this band broke up, four years later Fountain was hired to join the Lawrence Welk orchestra and became well known for his many solos on Welk's ABC television show, The Lawrence Welk Show.

The majority of the creative team at ZTT had first assembled when Horn produced the acclaimed album The Lexicon of Love for British pop band ABC.

ABC are an English New Romanticism band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990.

ABC has its roots in the band Vice Versa.

Within a short time, the band evolved into ABC, with Fry taking over on lead vocals.

* Fiona Russell Powell, who joined the group for ABC's 1985 album How To Be A Zillionaire, was part of the original line-up of the pre ABC band, Vice Versa.

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Hadley has continued with a busy performing schedule, and also toured with both Peter Cox from Go West and Martin Fry from the band ABC.

The band was signed to ABC Records, but most of the members did not go along with this plan.

" On an appearance on the ABC TV show Spicks and Specks, Jon Toogood talked about how band members do not usually have to consider holy war when thinking of a band name.

* AM ( ABC Radio ), an Australian radio programme

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

* Grayson, Albert Kirk ( 1975 ): Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles ( ABC ), Locust Valley, N. Y., Augustin ; reed.

At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.

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* ABC ( 1906 automobile ), an American car

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* ABC ( medicine ), a mnemonic for " Airway, Breathing, Circulation "

* ABC ( album ), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5

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* ABC ( Jin album ), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin.

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* ABC Islands ( Alaska ), a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island

* ABC islands ( Lesser Antilles ), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao

* Academia Británica Cuscatleca ( ABC ), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador