In 1979, MCA Records purchased ABC Records, absorbed some of its artists, and then shut the label down.

Friedman released Kinky Friedman in 1974 for ABC Records, then toured with Bob Dylan in 1975-6.

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

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In 1955, ABC established a recording division, the AmPar Record Corporation, which founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records ( which became ABC Records in 1965 ) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961.

The entire group was sold to MCA Records in 1979 ; as a result of subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC music group are now owned by Universal Music Group.

After the merger with Disney, ABC became sister company to a record label group once again, the Buena Vista Music Group ( which includes such labels as Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records ).

* Gladstone, an ABC / Dunhill Records 1970s pop group from Tyler, Texas

The group would later record for Bell / Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records.

In 1974 Norman signed to the mainstream label ABC Records, who agreed to distribute Solid Rock's records.

In 1976 ABC Records bought Word Records, and they switched Norman to its Word subsidiary.

It was picked up by ABC Records and from 1957 to 1959 Price recorded a series of national hits on ABC Records that were successful adaptations of the New Orleans sound, such as " Stagger Lee ", " Personality ", which reached # 2, and the # 3 hit " I'm Gonna Get Married ".

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

* ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network ( formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company )

* ABC News, is the news broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company

* ABC ( 1906 automobile ), an American car

* ABC ( 1922 automobile ), a planned American car

A meeting with American television companies ( ABC, Métromédia, NBC ) created the series The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau, with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress ) intended to give the films a " personalized adventure " style.

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.

" Maria " and " Overkill " were also broadcast by American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) during their Live Aid telecast.

ABC FM News is an example of an American news network that is designed for music radio stations.

When ABC reporter Bill Stewart was executed by the National Guard, and graphic film of the killing was broadcast on American TV, the American public became more hostile to Somoza.

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

It would become the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) in 1946.

Following the game ABC premiered the television drama Extreme starring James Brolin ; this was the last series to premiere following the Super Bowl until Family Guy premiered following Super Bowl XXXIII and is one of only four in the last fourteen years to premiere following a Super Bowl ( joining Family Guy, its spinoff American Dad !, and Undercover Boss which premiered following Super Bowl XLIV ), since the networks have preferred to have new episodes of established shows to catch as much of the post-game audience as possible.

In 1965 the show was sold to United States network, the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ).

The Day After is a 1983 American television film which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network.

* August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.

* December 20 – Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist, and ABC News World News Tonight co-anchor ( b. 1939 )

* March 11 – Sam Donaldson, American reporter ( ABC News )

** Howard K. Smith, American television journalist ( ABC News ) ( b. 1914 )

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 on ABC.

Just over a month before signing with the Yankees in fall 1976, Jackson did analysis in the ABC booth with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell the night his future team won the American League pennant on a homer by Chris Chambliss.

* ABC Classics, an Australian record label

The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show.

That record will finally be broken by The Ten Commandments, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973 and is still ( 2012 ) telecast by that network.

A team of ten University students creates and produces news videos, sports highlight videos for WDTN-TV ( Dayton NBC ), WHIO-TV ( Dayton CBS ), WKEF-TV ( Dayton ABC ) and the university web, record news stories for WUSO, the student run radio station, and write press releases for the university website.

* Elvin Mesger, Bowler, holder of the American Bowling Congress record for 800-or-better series ( 15 ), scored his 13th, 14th and 15th perfect games in one day — a first for the ABC — then rolled four more 300s in three weeks.

In that era, with communications nowhere near as universal as they are today, ABC was able to safely record events on videotape for later broadcast without worrying about an audience finding out the results.

The Royal Scam was released in May 1976 on ABC Records and is the group's most guitar-oriented record, in part due to Carlton's contributions.

By November 1960 Atlantic Records was struggling as two of their major stars, Bobby Darin and Ray Charles, who were responsible collectively for one-third of Atlantic's revenues, had left for other record lablels – Darin for Capitol Records, and Charles for a " mega-deal " with ABC Records.

The group's second record, Orleans II, recorded at Bearsville Studios, was originally released in Japan and Europe in 1974 but ABC declined to release it in the US since they felt there were " no hit singles " on the album and dropped them from the label.

ABC had acquired the Paramount and Dot labels when they purchased Gulf + Western's record labels.

The combined effects of the Infinity Records failure, the purchase of ABC Records, rising vinyl costs and a huge slump in record sales produced tremendous losses for the company between 1979 and 1982.

Although outside of their contract area, ABC operated a London base as many celebrities couldn't venture outside of the capital to record programmes as they were often starring in theatre plays in the West End.

* 1977-The television miniseries Roots is aired on ABC, to critical acclaim and gaining record audiences

The pilot episode entitled " Joe " aired on Monday, September 9, 1974 at 9: 30 PM and immediately set an unprecedented record that has yet to be overturned by being the first and only television series ever to achieve a number-one Nielsen rating for its premiere episode, easily defeating the ABC ratings juggernaut, Monday Night Football.

Harding and co-producer / keyboard player Curnow became the club remix and production ' B-Team ' of PWL Studios with many remixes and productions for internal PWL SAW Productions ( Kylie, Bananarama, Dead Or Alive, Mel & Kim ) as well as external record company clients ( e. g. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson / Jackson 5, Holly Johnson, Pet Shop Boys, Eighth Wonder, Four Tops, Chic, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Jesus Jones, Voice Of The Beehive, Gary Moore ) which included many U. S. dance chart No. 1s ( such as ABC ' When Smokey Sings ', Imagination ' Instinctual ', Blue Mercedes ' I Want To Be Your Property ').

In 1974, Gulf + Western sold the entire record operation to the American Broadcasting Company, who continued the Dot and Blue Thumb imprints as subsidiaries of ABC Records, while discontinuing the Paramount label altogether.

Brannigan took the magazine into its most commercially successful period with a record ever ABC for the title of 80, 186 copies.

ABC is often referred to as a newspaper of record from Spain, along with El País and El Mundo.

* ABC Dunhill Records, a record label

Minutes before the song was to be presented on American Bandstand in 1962, ABC informed Rambeau that he couldn't sing the song ( because Chuck Barris was an ABC employee at the time ), and he performed the B-side of the record instead.