Jackson also served as the pregame / halftime / postgame anchor for ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII in 1988.

Mike Tirico hosted the pregame show from ABC's first season with the NBA to the middle of the network's fourth with the league.

Tom Tolbert was relegated to pregame show duties only, and Bill Walton was removed from ABC's NBA coverage altogether ( he remained with ESPN ).

Stuart Scott hosts ABC's pregame show for the 2007-08 season along with analysts Bill Walton and Michael Wilbon.

The ABC's media review show Media Watch featured in the show.

When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast ( he would return to CBS and the show in 1978 ), Morley Safer joined the team in 1970, and he took over Reasoner's duties of reporting less aggressive stories.

In the fall of 2010, Shepherd appeared in an episode of ABC's new show, No Ordinary Family.

Match Game has the distinction of being ABC's last daytime game show to date.

Other early hit series on ABC during this period which helped establish the network included The Lone Ranger ( ABC's only Top 10 show before Disneyland ), The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, ( starring the real-life Nelson family ), Leave It To Beaver ( which moved over from CBS ), The Detectives and The Untouchables.

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.

The show came in response to 5 years of utter dominance by American Idol over even ABC's most popular shows.

He promoted that book in part with a 1995 guest appearance on ABC's All My Children, in a storyline that put him on the set of Erica Kane's talk show " The Cutting Edge ".

Problems arise when an appearance on a live TV comedy show, ABC's Fridays, turns into a fiasco when Kaufman refuses to speak his lines.

In 1980, he began as one of the cast members on ABC's Fridays television show, including a famous instance in which guest Andy Kaufman refused to deliver his scripted lines, leading Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman causing him to throw his drink into Richards ' face, before a small riot ensued ( Richards later claimed he was in on the joke ).

* On ABC's hit show " Modern Family ", characters Cameron and Mitchell said to having adopted their second child, a Latino boy from Calexico.

On March 20, 2007, Perris was featured on ABC's Nightline news show during its " Realty Check " segment.

Ellenville was the fourth community featured on ABC's television show, My Kind of Town, recorded in New York City on August 6, 2005, and broadcast on September 4, 2005.

In the late 1980s, ABC's Full House gradually became a hit, and the show solidified Stamos's career.

Perhaps one of ABC's first truly popular daytime shows ( along with the game show Let's Make a Deal ), Dark Shadows found its demographic niche in teenagers coming home from school in time to watch the show at 4 p. m. Eastern / 3 p. m. Central, where it aired for almost all of its network run, the exception being a 15-month stretch between April 1967 and July 1968, when it aired a half hour earlier.

The supergroup first performed live together on November 21, 2010 at the American Music Awards on ABC and again on 2011 New Year's on ABC's Dick Clark / Ryan Seacrest show.

Grandin has been featured on major media programs, such as Lisa Davis's It's Your Health, ABC's Primetime Live, the Today Show, and Larry King Live, the NPR show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and written up in Time magazine, People magazine, Discover magazine, Forbes and The New York Times. In 2012, Grandin was interviewed on Thriving Canine Radio to discuss " A Different Perspective on Animal Behavior.

Barris also made several attempts through the years at non-game formats, such as ABC's Operation Entertainment, a variety show staged at military bases akin to USO shows ; a CBS revival of Your Hit Parade ; and The Bobby Vinton Show, a Canadian-based syndicated variety show for singer Bobby Vinton ( produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye ).

Week by week, the show attracted more and more viewers, becoming ABC's second most watched sitcom.

He also co-starred in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money as Donald Sutherland's oldest son, Patrick Darling IV, for the duration of the show until April 2009.

*** The A. M. name goes back to AM America, ABC's original short-lived morning show in 1975 before the adaptation of ABC affiliate WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio's program Morning Exchange into the future national format for Good Morning America

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

A year later, Shepherd was cast as Maddie Hayes in ABC's Moonlighting ( 1985 – 1989 ), which became the role that would define her career.

It was an adaptation of the novel by Christopher Koch, which was based in part on the experiences of Koch's journalist brother Philip, the ABC's Jakarta correspondent and one of the few western journalists in the city during the 1965 attempted coup.

It was canceled after ratings dropped to a low due to the premiere of ABC's Batman, which was in full color.

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.

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.

However, no one expected the buyer to be a media company only a tenth the size of ABC, Capital Cities Communications, which owned several of ABC's most critical affiliate stations like WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and Houston's KTRK-TV.

There are also six " farnarkeling " reports, which parody sports news and were first performed by Clarke on the ABC's The Gillies Report.

Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently one of many actresses considered for the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, which would go onto become ABC's mega-hit of the 2004-05 television season.

Brown appeared as Coach Millie Stoeger in the film Clueless, reprising that role on ABC's 1996-1999 spin-off TV series, for which she was also a writer, producer and director.

He appeared as a musical judge in an episode of ABC's Jukebox Jury, which aired in the 1953 – 1954 season.

She also appeared in the subsequent music video which gained coverage on the " What the Buzz " segment of ABC's World News Now.

The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls.

Possibly the most-watched TV movie of all time was ABC's The Day After, which aired on November 20, 1983, to an estimated audience of 100 million people.

Crenna played " Walter Denton " in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and " Luke McCoy " in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, ( 1957 – 63 ), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962.

He was thereafter a regular on NBC's Laramie western series ( 1959 – 1963 ) with John Smith and Robert Fuller, co-starred in The Helen Morgan Story on CBS's Playhouse 90 ( 1957 ) and provided the voice for a stone-age parody of himself, " Stoney Carmichael ", in an episode of ABC's The Flintstones, which aired in September 1961.

Aside from the external protests, Soap was also subject to heavy internal revisions from ABC's Broadcast Standards & Practices department, which monitors the content of programs.

This was done mainly to address ABC's inability to find a suitable 8 p. m. lead-in program for MNF since the 1992 ending of MacGyver ( not even two other series from Paramount Television – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Marshal – which produced MacGyver, saw success, despite the former's ties to Paramount's Indiana Jones film series ), and to allow stations to start their late local newscasts nearer to their regular times.

* Lewis was included on the long list of entertainers who appeared on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, a variety series, which aired from 1957 – 1960.

ABC's chart fortunes in the UK dwindled further with this album, but the group did score its first US Top 10 hit with " Be Near Me ", which also made the UK Top 30.