While Captain Kangaroo was still in planning stages, CBS executives had the idea of hiring Al Lewis, a kids ' show host in Cincinnati ( ABC was running Lewis's show at that time ), to host their show, but Lewis's managers refused to release him from his contract.

ESPN and all of ABC and Disney's cable networks use the 720p HD line standard because ABC executives proposed a progressive scan signal that resolves fluid and high-speed motion in sports better, particularly during slow-motion replays.

Network executives at ABC insisted he make the combing action, but when filmed he instead stopped himself and said the line.

In the early 1980s, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, two former executives at ABC, left the network to start their own production company.

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

Initially, as admitted to Shapiro by executives during taped interviews, this view was promoted by the ABC since the network had poor ratings and needed to increase advertising revenue in some way.

He also had a weekly radio broadcast which was simulcast on ABC television until he ended that employment because of a dispute with ABC executives in 1955.

In early March 1977, ABC screened the first two episodes of Soap for the executives of its 195 affiliate stations, many of whom were instantly appalled by the show's emphasis on sex and infidelity.

Although ABC received hundreds of phone calls after the premiere, executives at the network described initial public reaction as " mild " with more calls in favor of the show than in protest.

He initially wanted the show to be recorded without a laugh track, but ABC network executives insisted on including one.

" ABC executives resisted Horne's demand ", according to the Associated Press report, " but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part.

ABC executives thought that Lampley's youthful looks would make him endearing to the college crowds they looked to attract for their college football games.

The group is said to have left the concert via helicopter to avoid a possibly ugly confrontation from angry fire marshals and ABC executives.

Newman's great success at ABC had been noted by the British Broadcasting Corporation, whose executives were keen to revive their own drama department's fortunes in the face of fierce competition from ITV.

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.

Initially, ABC executives did not want to see the Fonz wearing leather, thinking the character would appear to be a criminal.

Caron claims he tested Willis about a third of the way through testing over 2, 000 actors, knew " this was the guy " immediately, and had to fight through twice as many more acting tests and readings while arguing with ABC executives before receiving ( initial ) conditional authorization to cast Willis in the pilot.

The delays became so great that even ABC mocked the lateness with an ad campaign showing network executives waiting impatiently for the arrival of new episodes at ABC's corporate headquarters.

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 ").

Cannell was trying to avoid save-the-day type episodes, a la the original Adventures of Superman TV series, but according to Cannell on the DVD set, when Carsey and Werner left ABC ( shortly after the show was picked up by the network ) the new network executives wanted the show to be more like a kid's show than an adult's show.

" Soon Clifford and Robert Kennedy showed up at ABC and told executives that the Kennedys would sue unless the network issued a full retraction and apology.

" Critics feel the executives at ABC Family are only after viewership numbers and are unconcerned about showing younger generations in questionable scenarios in series and film.

ABC then promised to pay Miller-Boyett Productions $ 1. 5 million per episode for a ninth and tenth season of Family Matters.

Earlier in the fourth season, ABC had announced and promised an additional fifth year of the show, so the show's producers and writers were caught unprepared when ABC later changed its mind and decided that no new episodes would be produced.

Although a 35 share reportedly had been promised to advertisers, Stoddard was happy with the performance of Amerika, claiming that all or part of the miniseries had been watched by 100 million people – a ratings bonanza for ABC, then in third place among the three major networks.

After Hartman's retirement, Lunden was paired with ABC News This Morning anchor Charles Gibson on February 23, 1987, and ratings skyrocketed for Good Morning America.

Flockhart's last appearance on television was as Kitty Walker, opposite Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths and Matthew Rhys, in the ABC prime time series Brothers & Sisters, which premiered in September 2006 in the time slot after Desperate Housewives.

The first real prime time soap opera was Peyton Place ( 1964 – 1969 ) on ABC.

* Toby, a fictional cat on the ABC prime time drama Desperate Housewives, is a British Shorthair.

The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime time special, Let's Get Physical, becoming a Top 10 Nielsen hit.

In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development ; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's schedule in prime time began to expand.

* Peyton Place ( TV series ), a prime time soap opera which ran on ABC from 1964 to 1969, also adapted from the novel

Stern announced in early 2004 of talks with ABC to host a prime time interview special, which never materialized.

Sutherland starred as Tripp Darling in the prime time serial Dirty Sexy Money for ABC.

Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.

The biggest caveat of the syndicated / ABC coverage is that the network had wanted to reserve some of the biggest acts that had played earlier in the day for certain points in the entire broadcast, particularly in the final three hours in prime time ; thus, Orbis Communications had some sequences replaced by others, especially those portions of the concert that had acts from London and Philadelphia playing simultaneously.

However, at the request of the Speedway, Indianapolis ABC affiliate WRTV blacks out the live broadcast and airs it on tape delay in prime time to encourage local race attendance.

All three broadcast networks were airing full color prime time schedules by the 1966 – 67 broadcast season, and ABC aired its last new black-and-white daytime programming in December 1967.

ABC is also giving Nightline a prime time news magazine starting March 1, 2013, which will air Fridays at 9 p. m.

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 1989.

The Colbys ( originally titled Dynasty II: The Colbys ) is an American prime time soap opera, which originally aired on ABC from November 20, 1985 to March 26, 1987.

The fight was shown in prime time broadcast television by NBC, which rarely did prime time fights ( ABC tended to get the Ali fights ) and had the judges ' scoring announced after each round to help avoid any controversial decision.

Created by Aaron Sorkin, the half-hour prime time comedy-drama aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000.

The first episode of the new half-hour series aired Saturday, October 1, 1955, at 8: 30 pm Eastern Time ( during prime time ), opposite Ozark Jubilee on ABC and The Perry Como Show on NBC and had aired every Saturday since.

The show ran on ABC in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 PM Eastern time.

His fondness of plaid shirts is well-known and at times parodied, a prime example being the character Al Borland from the 1991 -' 99 ABC sitcom Home Improvement.

It was the first of several Hanna-Barbera action-based adventure shows – which would later include Space Ghost, The Herculoids, and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio – and ran on ABC in prime time on early Friday nights for one season in 1964 – 1965.

The longtime broadcaster of the game was ABC, who would always show the game in prime time.

Executive produced by Vin Di Bona, with co-executive producers Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway, it is currently the longest-running prime time entertainment program on ABC.

An actual television show version of You Don't Know Jack had a brief run on ABC in prime time during 2001.