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.

During this period, large anti-nuclear protests were taking place across Europe and North America, while the November 20, 1983 screening of ABC's post-nuclear war dramatization The Day After became one of the most anticipated media events of the decade.

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.

Robbins ' work has been featured in major media including Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, Life, GQ, Vanity Fair, Businessweek, Tycoon, and SUCCESS magazines, the CBS Evening News, NBC News, ABC's Prime Time Live, Fox News, CNN and A & E as well as newspapers, radio programs, and Internet media worldwide.

In the States, constant media coverage — yellow ribbons, footage of chanting Iranian mobs, even a whole new television news program, ABC's Nightline — provided a dispiriting backdrop to the presidential election season.

The investigation received unparalleled international media attention – airing first on ABC's Good Morning America, World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, and 20 / 20.

Neas is a consistent presence in the national media, interviewed regularly by the major TV, radio and print media, including: CBS's Face the Nation, ABC's Nightline ; CBS's Sunday Morning ; NBC's Today Show, ABC's This Week ; PBS ' a The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ; the nightly news shows of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox ; National Public Radio ; cable television and radio talk shows ; and national, regional and local newspapers ( in the New York Times and the Washington Post alone, he has been mentioned 250 and 500 times respectively ).

In response, ABC's media relations head Pat Marcelo-Magbanua reiterated that the subsidiary was a Filipino company which was self-registered and Filipino-run.

Some of his earliest appearances as Fred Dagg in the Australian media were on the ABC's The Science Show and Dagg later made regular radio appearances on 2JJ until the station moved to FM and was renamed 2JJJ in 1980.

He also has appeared on ABC's Politically Incorrect, CNN's Crossfire, NPR's Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered, Fox News Channel, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other media.

The pitch received national media attention ( including appearances on Good Morning America and Cold Pizza ), and Mallory got a chance to make amends on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live !, but again failed to come anywhere close to the target with his throw.

Carroll's story was featured on the ABC's own media watchdog program Media Watch.

Improv Everywhere has been profiled by many national and international media outlets including The New York Times, The Today Show, and ABC's Nightline.

For years, some residents have reported illnesses such as respiratory irritation, frequent blood noses, headaches, nausea and cancer, as reported in numerous media outlets, including the ABC's Four Corners program ' Something In The Air ', although no formal causal link has ever been established.

Before their rematch, Ali and Frazier visited the ABC studios in New York City to review their first fight for ABC's Wide World of Sports.

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.

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

This was exposed on ABC's Media Watch program.

In October 2009, Caralis ' supernetwork was named by the ABC's Media Watch program for failing to provide sufficient local content as stipulated by ACMA licence conditions.

On 7 May 2009 Laws made a statement on the 20th anniversary special edition of the ABC's Media Watch program, in which he exhibited no remorse for his role in the Cash-for-Comment scandal, instead implying that the whistleblower ( Media Watch ) was the wrongdoer and that the people involved were only jealous of his success.

As a result it became a running gag on the ABC's Media Watch in the period when Stuart Littlemore hosted the programme, and The Mercury was edited by Peter Cullen.

the ABC's Media Watch program queried Albrechtsen's source for a claim she attributed to psychiatrist Jean-Jacques Rassial a column that " pack rape of white girls is an initiation rite of passage for a small section of young male Muslim youths ", asserting that she was misquoting a report in the London Times.

A play on the ABC's serious Media Watch program.

In its original American broadcast on March 17, 2002, " Tales from the Public Domain ", along with a new episode of Malcolm in the Middle, received more than a full rating point more than ABC's showing of the film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All, which received a 3. 1 rating among adults between ages 18 and 49, according to Nielsen Media Research.

ABC's World News Tonight remained second in the Nielsen Media Research rankings, though it has lost some ground to NBC's first-place Nightly News, anchored by Brian Williams.