Most importantly, when DuMont agreed in principle to merge with ABC in 1953, Paramount vetoed the deal in part due to an earlier FCC ruling that Paramount controlled DuMont.

Taco Bell and the NBA agreed on a 4 year deal allowing them to advertise on ABC, TNT and ESPN, and NBA-themed promotions.

He liked living in Darwin and was keen to take up the position, so Martin agreed to decline the Sydney job and return to Darwin in May 1985 where Martin gained another position on an ABC Radio morning show.

The three major networks of the time agreed to take turns covering the hearings live, each network thus maintained coverage of the hearings every third day, starting with ABC on May 17 and ending with NBC on August 7.

In return, ABC agreed to honor all of DuMont's network commitments.

ABC and ITT agreed to a merger in late 1965, but this deal was derailed by FCC and Department of Justice questions about ITT's foreign ownership influencing ABC's autonomy and journalistic integrity.

Bradman also agreed to an extensive interview for ABC radio, broadcast as Bradman: The Don Declares in eight 55-minute episodes during 1988.

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

Despite the show's steady decline, ABC agreed to a fourth season of Mork & Mindy, but executives wanted changes.

An ABC News story in March 2002 repeated this, and during a report entitled " A Saudi Apology " for Dateline NBC on Aug 25 2002, NBC reporter John Hockenberry traveled to ' Asir, where he interviewed the third brother, Salah, who agreed that his two brothers were dead and claimed they had been " brainwashed ".

After a successful test broadcast, ABC agreed to allow Crosby to pre-record his shows on tape.

Many Catholics agreed with him that the show was hostile to the beliefs and values of the Catholic Church, and ABC canceled Nothing Sacred after less than a season, reportedly for poor ratings.

While FOX had the broadcasting rights to the other Bowl Championship Series games from 2007 to 2010, the Rose Bowl, which negotiates its own television contract independent of the BCS, agreed to keep the game on ABC.

On February 6, 1994, ABC agreed to purchase KQRS ' main rival, KRXX ( the first " 93X ") from Entercom, and KQRS management immediately took control of the station.

CBS agreed to broadcast all games where an NFC team was on the road, NBC agreed to broadcast all games where an AFC team was on the road, and ABC agreed to broadcast Monday Night Football, making the NFL the first league to have a regular series of national telecasts in prime time.

Garth Porter was keen to produce her work and he recorded six tracks which he played to ABC Music who agreed to sign her on the spot.

This occurred at the end of season seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut.

As originally agreed to between Cannell and then ABC executives Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner ( who would later form Carsey-Werner Productions ), the powers would be in the suit, not the guy ( though the suit would only work for him ) and Ralph would try to solve ordinary-type issues, such as trying to stop a fix in Major League Baseball (" The Two Hundred Miles-Per-Hour Fastball ") or an assassination attempt (" The Best Desk Scenario ").

Anthony agreed to portray himself, a Dallas-based minister with a small church looking into the ways televangelist ministries could grow so quickly, and ABC producers would pose as Anthony's " media consultants.

This prompted ABC to contact Mark Goodson about reviving the game ; this time around, Goodson agreed to have the show tape in Hollywood per ABC's wishes.

On April 7, 1983, Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC agreed to terms of a six year television package worth $ 1. 2 billion.

ABC insisted that the violence be toned down for network television and that a laugh track be included ( although some versions do not have this track or had it removed ; Spencer found it offensive that the audience be told when to laugh and was furious over the decision ), but agreed to cast Spencer's first choice for the lead character, the classically trained actor David Rasche.

The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.

The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.

After a merger in July 1968 ABC Television became Thames Television which continued production of the series, although it was still broadcast under the ABC name.

In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities / ABC, and renamed the broadcasting group ABC, Inc., although the network continues to also use American Broadcasting Companies, such as on TV productions it owns.

The move to ABC caused a fair amount of cast turnover as Nancy Stafford left the series and Julie Sommars followed, although she would play a recurring role in several episodes, while Don Knotts ' character was cut from the series.

At the end of Rather's time as anchor, the CBS Evening News lagged behind the NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight in the ratings, although it was still drawing approximately 7 million viewers a night.

ABC was largely responsible for the US broadcast ( although ABC themselves only telecast the final three hours of the concert from Philadelphia, hosted by Dick Clark, with the rest shown in syndication through Orbis Communications, acting on behalf of ABC ).

Arledge personally produced all ten ABC Olympic broadcasts, created the primetime Monday Night Football and coined ABC's famous " Thrill of victory, agony of defeat " tagline — although ABC insiders of that era attribute the authorship to legendary sports broadcaster Jim McKay.

Sylvia Chase quit 20 / 20, although she returned to ABC News many years later.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, Australia's two publicly funded national networks, ABC and SBS, received an increasing share of market ratings, although as of 2005 they only accounted for 15. 7 % and 6. 1 % of the national ratings, respectively.

ABC consequently submitted two applications: one for the service for London at the weekend, the other for the Midlands seven-day operation although they favoured the first contract.

As the youngest and least-viewed of the networks, ABC News employed the strategy to get a foothold on the American public's consciousness, although stations were quite free to tape-delay the feed in order to run it against the other two networks, or, in some larger markets especially, at 7 p. m ./ 6 p. m.

It was sold to ABC in early 1991 and became ABC Productions, although Orion continued to retain ownership of all its television output.

The United States had its own similar series, American Bandstand, which aired nationally on ABC from 1957 to 1987 ( although it would continue in first-run syndication until 1988 and end its run on USA in 1989 ).

The parade is televised on ABC, NBC, Univision ( in Spanish ), HGTV, The Travel Channel, RFD TV, and KTLA ( the latter three offer interruption-free coverage, although KTLA repeats the parade throughout the day with commercials ).

The show was canceled the following June, which Maher and many others saw as a result of the controversy, although ABC denied that the controversy was a factor and said the program was canceled due to declining ratings.

He accepted the position, eager for a new challenge, although he was forced by ABC to remain with them until the expiration of his contract in December 1962, after which he immediately began work with the BBC.

There was some initial resentment to his appointment within the Corporation, as he was an outsider and he was also earning more than many of the executives senior to him, although still substantially less than he had been paid at ABC.

ABC are the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, and they may refer to:

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

As a result of the 1982 television contract signed by the NFL with the three networks, this game was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, as they earned their first turn at the Super Bowl, with a new alternation process started for the 1983 game.

Instead, they televised a special ABC News report anchored by Peter Jennings on the progress of the Gulf War.

CBS broadcast Super Bowl II, then the league rotated the broadcast between CBS and NBC until 1985 when ABC entered the rotation when they broadcast Super Bowl XIX.

ABC, Hume and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene.

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.

Meyer persuaded ABC to dedicate the film to the citizens of Lawrence and also to put a disclaimer at the end of the film, following the credits, letting the viewer know that The Day After downplayed the true effects of nuclear war so they would be able to have a story.

ABC dropped the show in 1971 on the grounds that its audience was mostly over the age of 45 and they couldn't advertise products targeted at youth on it.

GSN sent Ribeiro on a promotional tour to local television stations to promote Catch 21, while they partnered with the ABC Television Network to create Play It Again!

* Anyone who had a heart would know their own language — Transcript of ABC Radio program on the singular they.

Camp Rock and Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior are currently the only DCOMs to air on a non-Disney Channel branded network domestically as they have both aired on sister channel ABC Family, and Camp Rock has also aired on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney.

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

While British designers had produced the ABC Dragonfly radial in 1917, they were unable to resolve the cooling problems, and it was not until the 1920s that the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Armstrong Siddeley produced reliable air-cooled radials such as the Bristol Jupiter and the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar.

In 1977 BS & T was signed to ABC Records and they began working on their next release, Brand New Day ( November 1977 ).

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.

After realizing their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion they formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff " Skunk " Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed the band to ABC as recording artists.

In March 1979, ABC was bought by MCA Records, and for most of the next two years they were caught in contractual problems that prevented them from releasing the album.

ESPN began to show more Olympics highlights on-air and online beginning with the 2006 Winter Olympics ; they received these extended rights from NBC as part of the deal that saw ABC release Al Michaels from his contract, so he could join John Madden and key production personnel for the new NBC Sunday Night Football.

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.