* 1956-10: 1022 " The ABC's of Love " / " Share " (# 8 on R & B chart )

Thanks in no small part to the success of ABC's General Hospital, Texas remained in the bottom echelon of the ratings chart, tying with The Doctors for last place in 1980.

Demand from ABC's European distributor EMI for a What A Wonderful World album forced ABC to issue one but they did not promote the album either so it did not chart in the U. S. Ironically, twenty years later, it became the most successful recording of both Armstrong and Thiele's careers, thanks to its inclusion on the hit soundtrack to the Robin Williams film Good Morning Vietnam.

The album continues to chart in the Australian Top 200 with " Solid Rock " appearing on several Australian rock compilation releases and the video being shown from time to time on the ABC's ' Rage ' music video program even though the song will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in October 2012.

ABC Records ' European distributor EMI forced ABC to issue a What A Wonderful World album in 1968 ( catalogue number ABCS-650 ) which did not chart in the US due to ABC's non-promotion of it, but did chart in the UK where it was issued by Stateside Records with catalogue number SSL 10247 and peaked on the British chart at # 37.

Arledge helped ABC's fortunes with innovations in sports programming, such as the multiple cameras used in Monday Night Football.

Soon after Newman arrived in the UK, ABC's Head of Drama Dennis Vance was moved into a more senior position with the company, and Thomas offered Newman his position, which the Canadian quickly accepted.

* On the 2012 season premiere episode of ABC's The Bachelorette, contestant Chris Bukowski presented bachelorette Emily Maynard with custom bobbleheads of the two of them, as gifts, in an attempt to impress her and further himself in the competition.

Kirchenbauer quickly accepted ABC's offer to star in his own series, and Dan Guntzelman, Mike Sullivan and Steve Marshall also agreed that a series further exploring the life of Coach Lubbock would have appeal.

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

On September 29, 1961, Falk and Walter Matthau guest-starred in the premiere episode, " The Million Dollar Dump ," of ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors !, with Stephen McNally.

Also helping out with ABC's coverage were Jack Whitaker, Ray Gandolf, Stone Phillips, Dick Schaap, Jeff Greenfield, Judd Rose, Donna de Varona, and Bill Redeker.

Also helping with ABC's coverage were Jack Whitaker, Jim Hill and Becky Dixon.

This would be the first Super Bowl broadcast on ABC to have the broadcast team of Michaels, Gifford, and Dierdorf in the booth ( as the 1987 season was the first year the trio was together, with Dierdorf moving to ABC from CBS ; Gifford was the only holdover from ABC's Super Bowl XIX telecast ).

Brent Musburger hosted all the events with the help of then-ABC Sports analysts Bob Griese and Dick Vermeil, Musburger's regular color commentator on ABC's college football telecasts.

Brent Musburger hosted all the events with the help of then-ABC Sports analyst Dick Vermeil, Musburger's regular color commentator on ABC's college football telecasts, and then-New York Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason.

WCW television ratings were also heavily competing with ABC's Monday Night Football.

In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block ( later ABC Kids ) in place of the teen series.

The police said that the father engineered the hoax with the hope of generating enough publicity in order to get the family back into the reality-show business, after two appearances on ABC's Wife Swap.

The endorsement was written on stationery with ABC's letterhead.

Worse yet, Rose showed some unsportsmanlike attitude toward his own manager, Paul Owens, complaining about his benching in a pre-game interview with ABC's Howard Cosell.

" Toward the end of his life, Milland appeared twice as Jennifer Hart's father in ABC's Hart to Hart, with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers.

Ironically, in 1970 ABC's Roone Arledge had asked via telephone about Buck's interests in becoming the first television play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football, but because of personal animosity surrounding his previous stint with the network, Buck wouldn't return their phone call.

Although the series still did well in the ratings ( despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera Dark Shadows ), it was canceled in 1969 along with other games in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by Letters to Laugh-In which, although a spin-off of the popular prime time series Laugh-In, ended in just three months on December 26.

It surpassed records as the most popular daytime program ever with a record 11 million daily viewers, one that held until the " Luke and Laura " supercouple storyline gripped viewers on ABC's General Hospital some years later.

The rest of ABC's fleet of owned-and-operated major market stations, in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, would sign on during the next 13 months, giving it parity with CBS and NBC in the important area of big-city presence, as well as a long term advantage in guaranteed reach over the rival DuMont Television Network, by the fall of 1949.

Seeing that WXYZ was the only one of ABC's radio stations making money at the time, and with a decline in listenership and far less network programming at ABC's other stations, Neal, after moving to WABC in New York to become general manager of that station, hired Mike Joseph ( later known for developing the Hot Hits format ) as Music Consultant to program contemporary Top 40 music on WABC.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

Murphy and Burke are credited with streamlining ABC's operations and increasing profitability.

ABC's relationship with Disney dates back to 1953, when Leonard Goldenson pledged enough money so that the " Disneyland " theme park could be completed.

One show of note in ABC's attempt to expand its reality TV brand was the rebuttal of Fox's enormously popular American Idol, The One: Making a Music Star, which attempted to combine a talent competition with a traditional reality show.

Pickens appeared in numerous television guest shots, including three episodes of NBC's The Wide Country ( 1962 ) with Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine and one appearance on ABC's The Legend of Jesse James, The Fugitive and a first-season episode of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ..

* 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.

* The Föhn is used for the letter F in " Crazy ABC's " from the album Snacktime!

Promotional touring for the album started on May 23, 2004 with a series major national television appearances, highlighted by performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 13, 2004 ; NBC's Today show as part of their outdoor Toyota Concert Series on July 16, 2004 and ABC's The View on July 19, 2004.

Instead, most of the songs found on the album were more pop-oriented, such as " Voyageur ", " Incognito ", " Boum-Boum " and " Look of Today "; the latter of which interpolates the chorus of ABC's hit " The Look of Love ".

Parker and the Rumour gained a following in Australia thanks to the support of Sydney independent rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ) and the ABC's weekly pop TV show Countdown, which gave the group nationwide exposure in Australia.

At the end of 2007, the ABC's satirical comedy group The Chaser hosted a New Year's Eve edition of Rage, the event being dubbed " The Chaser's War on rage ".

This was followed by several years as a DJ and presenter on the ABC's youth radio network Triple J, including a stint as co-host ( with Ian Rogerson ) on the popular Sunday afternoon comedy program Off The Record, a program that featured the talents of comedy group The J-Team, which included comedians Lance Curtis and Angela Webber.

Quarry, who had acted in various programs on ABC to this point, including ' Batman ', ' Adam-12 ', ' I Dream Of Jeannie ' and ' The Six Million Dollar Man ', also did boxing commentary for ABC's " Wide World Of Sports.

However, the show only lasted one season, as did The Big Record on CBS ( 1957 – 58 ) and ABC's The Patti Page Olds Show ( 1958 – 59 ).

Although network radio drama returned to the airwaves — in ABC's Theater Five ( 1964 – 65 ), and CBS Radio Mystery Theater ( 1974 – 82 ) — these were more experimental " drama workshop " shows, and did not adhere to a continuing format or leading character.

After The Inside was canceled, Coyote returned to The 4400 as a special guest star for their two-part season finale, then joined the cast of ABC's series Commander in Chief as the Vice President of the United States, and the next year did a four episode turn as Sally Field's disreputable boyfriend in Brothers & Sisters.

The cast did likewise on ABC's Good Morning America, where at the end of the segment, reporter, Cynthia McFadden wished Rae a happy birthday, and the cast sang the show's theme song.

Although the series did well enough to quickly force the cancellation of another Carson competitor, ABC's The Joey Bishop Show, it was unable to make much of a dent in Carson's ratings.

Although the national ratings were never strong enough to climb above tenth place, Loving did beat the genre's top-rated program, CBS ' The Young and the Restless in markets such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia, which were home to four of ABC's owned-and-operated stations ; however, Loving only competed with the first half hour of The Young and the Restless.

After a few years of almost no work — he once summed up the 1970s as " I cried and did a lot of gardening "-- he was hired in 1979 for his best-known role, self-made millionaire Palmer Cortlandt on ABC's long-running soap opera " All My Children.

KGO-TV is ABC's oldest O & O station in California, as its sister station KECA-TV ( now KABC-TV ) in Los Angeles did not sign on the air until September 1949.

Unlike ABC's Notre Dame coverage, DuMont's NFL game was presented live on Saturday nights, but interest was not adequate to save the DuMont Network, which had by this point already entered what would be a terminal decline ( although it did mount a subsequent 1954 season of NFL telecasts, minus Wismer, which proved to be one of its last regular programs ).

ABC's affiliation agreement with KTVK did not expire until the end of 1994, but unhappy about losing ABC after 41 years, KTVK had already begun to drop ABC shows from its schedule.

On September 27, 1994, WWSB received an affiliation termination notice from the ABC network, likely related to ABC's forced change to WFTS-had the station not petitioned the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) ( and won, which it did ) to keep its affiliation, the then-23-year-long ABC affiliation would have come to a close on 2 April 1995.

ABC's 20 / 20 did a news segment on race relations, which many felt was biased against the city and the people living in it in general.

He joined network music composers on CBS Education of Max Bickford, starring Richard Dreyfuss, and also did the music for ABC's " That Was Then.

ABC broadcast The Money Maze at 4: 00 PM Eastern ( 3: 00 Central ), opposite Tattletales on CBS and Somerset on NBC ; Money Maze did not perform well against either series in the ratings, and host Clooney claimed in a 1998 Cincinnati Post column that fewer than half of ABC's affiliates carried the show.