Fox would abandon Fox Kids after selling the children's division and the former Fox Family Channel ( now ABC Family ) to The Walt Disney Company in 2002 and then sell the four hours of Saturday morning time to 4Kids Entertainment.

In 1993, Forrest Sawyer, host of the ABC News / Entertainment program " Day One ", alleged financial improprieties by the Warwick Foundation, founded in 1989 to benefit AIDS patients, particularly Dionne Warwick's charity concert performances organized to benefit the organization.

* In June, Fred Silverman becomes the head of ABC Entertainment, whose programming choices resulted in ABC achieving ratings dominance ( and initiating an era of what was disparagingly called " T & A " or " Jiggle television ")

, Fox's home entertainment division, long after Fox's parent company News Corporation and Haim Saban sold Fox Family ( currently ABC Family ), including Saban Entertainment and the Power Rangers franchise, to the Walt Disney Company, maintained worldwide home-entertainment rights to both of these Power Rangers films.

This is because co-producer QM Productions gained control of ancillary rights and all rights were sold to ABC films, that company became Worldvision Enterprises in 1973, which in turn was sold to Taft Broadcasting in 1979, which in turn sold it to Spelling Entertainment in 1988, which in turn ended up as part of CBS Television Studios.

On September 3, 2011, ABC outsourced its Saturday morning programming and E / I liabilities to Litton Entertainment ; Litton now provides ABC stations with Litton's Weekend Adventure, a live-action block aimed at teens, marking the end of children's programming ( animated or otherwise ) on the ABC network itself.

Fox sold its children's division to ABC in 2001, outsourcing its programming to 4Kids Entertainment from 2001 to 2008.

Soon after, ABC Family and Toon Disney began airing reruns, due to Disney's buyout of all Saban Entertainment programs.

Despite its emphasis on British personalities who may not be well known in other countries, Dead Ringers has been shown outside the UK on BBC Prime ( now BBC Entertainment ) in Europe and Africa, BBC America in the United States, ABC in Australia, BBC Canada in Canada and UK. TV in New Zealand.

The company was sold to International Family Entertainment Inc. ( IFE ) in 1993 ( now Disney subsidiary ABC Family Worldwide Inc .).

It was produced by ABC Entertainment, Sandy Feldman, Don Branker and Leonard Stogel.

Macross Plus was aired on Australia's government-owned broadcaster, ABC Television in 1995 and 1996, when the broadcasting of English-dubbed anime was prominent on the ABC and was one of many Manga Entertainment titles aired on the channel.

In 1993, DIC Animation City and Capital Cities / ABC formed a joint venture called DIC Entertainment LP and in 1995 it became a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

He has developed original television and film content for Fox Television, Warner Brothers Studios, ABC Entertainment and HBO.

Following the sale of Fox Family Worldwide ( renamed ABC Family Worldwide Inc .), including Saban Entertainment ( renamed BVS Entertainment ), to Disney by Haim Saban and News Corporation, Fox Network's parent company, the show was moved in the fall 2002 to ABC's new Saturday morning block, ABC Kids ( formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning ).

Season 1 was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in December 2004, Season 2 was released by ABC DVD in December 2009.

Since Fox Kids was bought by Disney, 4Kids Entertainment took over the block as " Fox Box " and Disney changed the block from Disney's One Saturday Morning to ABC Kids on exactly the same day that Fox Kids was taken over.

According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard of this treatment, he demanded — and eventually received — Regan's resignation.

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman ( E. G. Marshall ) and General MacArthur ( Fonda ), produced by ABC.

WABC's immediate success lead to Neal being named President of all 7 ABC owned radio stations.

Burke became President and Chief Executive of ABC, running the daily operations of the network until his retirement in 1994.

He claimed in an interview with ABC News that the Pakistan Government, under Shaukat Aziz, and President Pervez Musharraf forced him to be a " scapegoat " for the " national interest ".

In November 2004, in an ABC Prime Time interview with Peter Jennings, former US President Bill Clinton identified Kibaki as the one living person he would most like to meet " because of the Kenyan government's decision to abolish school fees for primary education ".

One ABC Vice President was shocked to learn that his 11 year-old child was required by a parochial school teacher to write a letter of protest to ABC to take the show off the air.

On May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama announced in an interview with ABC News that after wrestling with the subject for many years, he had come to believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

At Parliament Klaus was requested to undergo standard security clearance, ABC staff tried to convince security staff to allow the President to bypass security but they declined the request, and so Klaus left the building.

In 1978, a year after Roone Arledge became President of ABC News, the ABC Evening News was succeeded by ABC World News Tonight with a trio of anchors: Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and Max Robinson.

On February 8, 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order to tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand.

The rest of the day he devoted to policy and budget briefings, visits with foreign and other dignitaries, and to what he termed " ABC " meetings at the White House with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger as well as President Bill Clinton.

On March 17, 2011, ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced that former Good Morning America National correspondent Lara Spencer would be rejoining the show as " Lifestyle " anchor.

Shortly after, Bochco was offered the job as President of ABC Entertainment but turned it down.

The show was the brainchild of Fred Silverman, then President and CEO of NBC, who was desperate to replicate the success he'd had at ABC and CBS.

Circumstances became so desperate in the early 1990s that, to keep the show afloat, ABC assigned its own programming suits, network executive Haidee Granger and later, Vice President of Daytime Programming JoAnn Emmerich, to serve as Executive Producers.

In conversations with then ABC President Bob Iger, producers Zwick and Herskovitz told him that by broadcasting My So-Called Life the network was giving a voice to millions of young women who otherwise had no voice on network television.

Soup and Me and Soup For President were adapted into half-hour television episodes starring Christian Berrigan and Shane Sinutko for the TV series The ABC Weekend Special.

Under new entertainment president Stephen McPherson, in the fall of that year ABC premiered two highly anticipated series Desperate Housewives, and Lost.

Original ABC saxophonist, Stephen Singleton, was interviewed for Made In Sheffield, along with members of The Human League and Heaven 17.

ABC eventually offered Stephen King the chance to make The Stand into a 8-hour miniseries for television.

" The song was actually featured in the 1966 television musical, Olympus 7-000, part of the ABC Stage 67 series which also produced Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose.

On the series ' season 1 DVD set Stephen J. Cannell explained that he had envisioned Greatest American Hero as a show focusing on down-to-earth, real life problems, whereas when a change of management occurred in ABC, they requested more heroic, save-the-day type episodes.

The screenplay for the miniseries was written by Stephen King expressly for television, and was published by Pocket Books just prior to the initial airing of Storm of the Century on ABC.

He starred in the ABC drama Scandal, as Stephen Finch, but did not return for the second season.

Although this series aired on ABC, it was originally slated to be on CBS, but unresolved casting differences with CBS led Stephen Cannell to cease pre-production with that network.

* The Commish ( 1991 – 1996 ) ( as ABC Productions ; ABC, co-produced with Three Putt Productions and Stephen J. Cannell Productions )

Writers who worked at the Star in its last days included Nick Adde ( Army Times ), Stephen Aug ( ABC News ), Michael Isikoff ( Newsweek ), Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post ), Fred Hiatt ( The Washington Post ) Sheilah Kast ( ABC News ), Jane Mayer ( The New Yorker ), Chris Hanson ( Columbia Journalism Review ), Jeremiah O ' Leary ( The Washington Times ), Chuck Conconi ( Washingtonian ), Crispin Sartwell ( Creators Syndicate ), Maureen Dowd ( The New York Times ), novelist Randy Sue Coburn, Michael DeMond Davis, Lance Gay, ( Scripps Howard News Service ): Jules Witcover ( The Baltimore Sun ), Jack Germond ( The Baltimore Sun ), Judy Bachrach ( Vanity Fair ), Lyle Denniston ( The Baltimore Sun ), Fred Barnes ( Weekly Standard ), Kate Sylvester ( NPR, NBC, Governing Magazine ) and Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post ).

Present at the premiere were William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott, Ramon Novarro ( who played Judah Ben-Hur in the 1925 silent film version ), Spyros Skouras ( president of the 20th Century Fox ), Barney Balaban ( president of Paramount Pictures ), Jack Warner ( president of Warner Bros .), Leonard Goldenson ( president of the American Broadcasting Company ), Moss Hart ( playwright ), Robert Kintner ( an ABC Television executive ), Sidney Kingsley ( playwright ), and Adolph Zukor ( founder of Paramount Pictures ).

The single had various producers: " Obsessions ", " Cool Thing " and " ABC Song " were produced by Stephen Street, " Instant Sunshine " was produced by Suede and Alex Silva, " UFO " was produced by Suede and Cameron Craig, " Rainy Day Girl " was produced by Suede and Sean Genockey while " Hard Candy " was produced by Tony Hoffer.

* Charles Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo, and Edward Chiodo ( ABC Weekend Specials-" Crash the Curiousaurus ")

Hardcastle and McCormick is a action / drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986.

For example, Stephen McPherson's current position as president of ABC Entertainment refers to his responsibility for the network's primetime schedule, and not the aforementioned production company.