Hume undertook a massive amount of research on nuclear war and went through several drafts until finally ABC deemed the plot and characters acceptable.

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.

* Brit Hume for ABC News

His largest role to date came in 2005 when he was cast as Desmond Hume in the ABC series Lost.

Meyer and Papazian also made trips to the ABC censors, and to the United States Department of Defense during this time.

The Department of Defense said they would cooperate with ABC if it was made clear in the script that the Soviet Union launched their missiles first, something Meyer and Papazian were at pains not to do.

Arledge realized ABC was the organization he was looking to join.

Actually, the program finished in the Top 20 its first season, but ABC determined that the show was losing too much of its lead-in, suggesting low appeal if the show were moved ( a suggestion that came to be realized, as the show's ratings dropped dramatically after a move to another time slot in its second season ).

WFIL went back to the TK-10s two weeks later when ABC refused to carry the color signal and management realized that the show lost something without the extra cameras.

By 1955, DuMont realized it could not compete against CBS, NBC and a revived ABC, and decided to shut down network operations.

However, when the series was picked up by ABC it was realized that Duke's age, which was at the time 16, would prove to be a challenge.

" Poirot and Hastings are reunited in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, having been earlier reunited in The ABC Murders and Dumb Witness when Hastings arrives in England for business.

The ABC was designed for a specific purpose, the solution of systems of simultaneous linear equations.

The original ABC was eventually dismantled, when the University converted the basement to classrooms, and all of its pieces except for one memory drum were discarded.

The replica ABC is now on permanent display in the first floor lobby of the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.

* ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set

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

* ABC strategy for " Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom ", a sex education strategy

* ABC ( medicine ), also known as ABCD, a mnemonic for steps in resuscitation

Another famous example of emulating instrumentation instead of singing the words is the theme song for The New Addams Family series on Fox Family Channel ( now ABC Family ).

Its first publication was the Abridged Bliss Classification ( ABC ), intended for school libraries.

A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.

He is known for his roles as Tim O ' Hara on the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on the ABC comedy-drama series The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Dr. David Banner on the CBS drama series The Incredible Hulk.

As Grey's Anatomy is on ABC, but is carried in Canada on CTV at the same time, for instance, the cable, satellite, or other broadcast distributor must send the CTV feed over the signal of the carried ABC affiliate, even where the ABC version is somehow different, particularly commercials.

Staunch Australian right-wingers, on the other hand, level it at those who support such things as government funding for the arts, free tertiary education, and the ABC – all causes which are described by critics as " middle-class welfare ".

A 2001 remake of the movie for ABC starred Sean Maher as Piccolo and Mekhi Phifer as Sayers.

Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.

Plato actually returned for several appearances during the show's final 1986 season, which appeared on ABC, including an episode ( Plato's final appearance in the series ) in which Kimberly suffers the effects of bulimia.

Associate Members from the United States include ABC, CBS, NBC, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Time Warner, and the only individual station, Chicago-based classical music station WFMT.

It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995 and 1997.

Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

In the mid-1970s, he started working with Rob Reiner on a pilot for ABC.

" On Monday, August 30, 1982, ABC shut down Rusty's IGA supermarket in Lawrence's Hillcrest Shopping Center from 7 a. m. until 2 p. m. to shoot a scene representing panic buying.

The first major cut was made to the film that could be called " censorship ": censors forced ABC to cut an entire scene of a child having a nightmare about nuclear holocaust and then sitting up, screaming.

The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and The Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Japan, Ultravox, Visage, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, ABC and Culture Club.

" The ABC miniseries compressed Bodine's role to a single extended scene suggesting she was dismissive, hostile, and vulgar toward John P. O ' Neill from the moment of his arrival in Yemen.

The scene shifts to a political meeting in a small café where Enjolras leads a group of idealistic students to prepare for a revolution that they believe will materialise after General Lamarque's death, (" The ABC Café — Red and Black ").

He kills his victims in alphabetical order and leaves an ABC railway guide depicting the scene of crime as his calling card.

* The ABC version of this cartoon cuts a scene where Wile E. throws a stick of dynamite attached to a string and ends up getting tangled on a cactus with the dynamite.

Unlike the ABC version, Nickelodeon kept in the scene of Wile E. tangled on the cactus with the dynamite.

The New York club scene is an important part of the city's music scene, birthplace to many styles of music from disco to punk rock ; some of these clubs, such as Studio 54, Max's Kansas City, Mercer Arts Center, ABC No Rio, and CBGB's, reached an iconic statuses in the United States and the world.

With the collapse of the CBGB hardcore matinees, due to constant violence, a more activist DIY scene began to develop around ABC No Rio and the squats of the Lower East Side.

* The Nickelodeon version also edited the scene that was cut on ABC, but the scene was edited with a fake iris-out just as Rocky says: " So long, pal " and a fake iris-in after Daffy is shot.

For instance, on the ABC / CBS show Family Matters during the closing credits of the episode " Scenes From a Mall " ( Season 5, Episode 12 ), a scene which was shown earlier in the episode featuring Reginald VelJohnson is re-played, but this time with one of the child actors stating that he " looks like that fat guy from Fresh Prince ," referring to James Avery who played Judge Phillip Banks on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

However, ABC cuts a lot of parts of these specials out, including the " Peppermint Mine " scene in " Rudolph ", and the song " I'm Kubla Kraus ", in Jack Frost.

There, it faced reruns on ABC and the television show Somerset on NBC-but its audience share and ratings would not be enough to save it from cancellation in an increasingly cost-competitive network daytime scene.

Airing live weekly, it has become a critical success, achieving extremely positive ratings for the ABC in Australia, with a wide audience from a range of demographics not all of which are normally noted for their interest in the Australian political scene.

" The scene was intentionally altered not only in color, but also in tint, hue, brightness and contrast – prompting viewers to call their local ABC stations and complain about the broadcast quality.

A commercial would then follow, and when the program started up again, one would see the screenwriter and the director's names respectively-superimposed over the film's opening scene in credits manufactured by ABC.

In 2007 ABC and FOX agreed that Wettig could briefly reprise her role as Caroline Reynolds, providing off-camera voice-overs and appearing in a scene with Wentworth Miller.

* On Cartoon Network, WB !, ABC, and the syndicated version of " The Merrie Melodies Show ", the entire scene where Bugs impersonates a black slave to get past the Mason-Dixon line, blows his cover by playing " Yankee Doodle ", places a whip in Yosemite Sam's hand and begs Sam not to beat him, then comes in as Abraham Lincoln reprimanding Sam for what he supposedly done (" What's this I hear about you whipping slaves?

The scene was focused around venues such as the famous CBGBs, ABC No Rio, A7 and Brooklyn's L ' amour.

The train collision scene at the end of the film was later used as part of the opening of the ABC television series The Fall Guy.