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.

Two years later, WHDH-FM was licensed, and on November 26, 1957, WHDH-TV made its début as an ABC affiliate on channel 5.

ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly examined the ABC in June 1941, and its influence on the design of the later ENIAC machine is a matter of contention among computer historians.

An academic content analysis of election news later found that coverage at ABC, CBS, and NBC was more favorable toward Kerry than Bush, while coverage at Fox News Channel was more favorable toward Bush.

His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.

In later years, Paramount's TV division would develop a strong relationship with ABC, providing many hit series to the network.

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.

The show ended with everybody singing " Can You Feel The Love Tonight ", the song featured in Disney's ( which later acquired ABC ) 1994 film The Lion King.

It would be converted into a cartoon of the same name, with Burton playing a role as executive producer, that ran on ABC and later Fox.

In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block ( later ABC Kids ) in place of the teen series.

* Starlord was a weekly title ( originally intended to be monthly ) launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters that would later reappear in ABC Warriors.

Smith remained as co-anchor at ABC until 1975, after which Reasoner anchored solo until Barbara Walters joined the broadcast a year later.

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.

Less successful efforts included The Critic, which starred Jon Lovitz from Saturday Night Live ( originally airing on ABC then moved to Fox before being canceled ), and The PJs, ( which was later broadcast on The WB ).

Michael Phillips later became Ebert's replacement for the remainder of Roeper's time on At the Movies, until mid-2008, when Roeper did not extend his contract with ABC.

The Blue package contained leases on land-lines and on studio facilities in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago and Los Angeles ; contracts with talent and with about sixty affiliates ; the trademark and " good will " associated with the Blue name ; and licenses for three stations ( WJZ in New York, San Francisco's KGO, and WENR in Chicago — really a half-station, since WENR shared time and a frequency with " Prairie Farmer " station WLS, with which it would later merge under full ABC ownership in 1954 ).

By the early 1970s, ABC had formed its first theatrical division, ABC Pictures, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures.

The company's later movies included Silkwood, The Flamingo Kid and SpaceCamp ( the latter was the last movie ABC produced for cinemas.

But the network did acquire Orion Pictures ' television division in the wake of the studio's bankruptcy ( after a brief attempt at acquiring the studio itself ), later merging it with its in-house division ABC Circle Films to create ABC Productions.

The group would later record for Bell / Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records.

In 2001, the sisters starred in two new series: So Little Time, a live-action sitcom on Fox Family ( later ABC Family ); and Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action !, an animated series airing Saturday mornings on ABC.

On 21 February 2011, ABC Four Corners revealed that significant concerns were being expressed about depletion and chemical damage to the Great Artesian Basin as a result of coal seam gas extraction.

It was revealed during Once Upon a Times 2012 Comic-Con panel in San Diego on July 14th that Captain Hook will make an appearance in the show's second season which will be airing in the fall of 2012 on ABC.

Two years after leaving ABC News, Bernstein released the book Loyalties: A Son's Memoir, in which he revealed that his parents had been members of the Communist Party.

On 25 February 2010 the ABC revealed an email mistakenly sent by Mr Madden's media adviser containing a media strategy document.

While interviewing Dick Smith on ABC Local Radio on 12 January 2012 Mr Holden revealed that he decided to leave his long-time American home and return to Australia because of the inequities of life in the US.

According to an ABC News article, " Alanis Morissette revealed that her angst-ridden hit ' You Oughta Know ' was about her relationship with Dave Coulier ".

In 2004, the boy sought out his biological mother and it was publicly revealed that the child had become an ABC sound recordist who worked in Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, and was involved in making television programs in which Abbott appeared.

During the year, the ABC TV current affairs program Media Watch revealed that Laws and rival talk-back host Alan Jones ( then also at 2UE ) had been paid to give favourable comments by companies including Qantas, Optus, Foxtel, Mirvac, Telstra and major Australian banks, without disclosing this arrangement to listeners.

On July 14, 2005, ABC News revealed that Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the suspected perpetrators of the 7 July London bombings, had been in contact with members of the Luton cell that was broken up.

The company responded by suing ABC for fraud, claiming that the ABC employees misrepresented themselves ; for trespassing, because the ABC employees came on to Food Lion property without permission ; and for breach of loyalty, the ABC employees videotaped non-public areas of the store and revealed internal company information.

The Luna Park fire was a turning point in Sharp's life ; like many others he firmly believes that the fire was a deliberate act of terrorism aimed at destroying the park and making the site available for redevelopment and in a 2010 interview on the ABC Radio National program The Spirit of Things, he revealed that the fire and the circumstances surrounding it had exerted a profound effect on his spiritual outlook.

* The Island in the ABC drama Lost is revealed in its sixth season to function as a sort of axis mundi.

In the Season 5 episode " Janine, You've Changed ", it is revealed that her changes were the result of her wishes to a " makeoverus lotsabucks " ( the name likely a swipe at ABC by J. Michael Straczynski ), a demon posing as a fairy godmother ( and even referred to as such by Janine herself ).

In 1978, Peace News, together with The Leveller magazine revealed the identity of Colonel B, a witness in the ABC Trial.

On a special Grey's Anatomy-themed episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, she revealed that top executives from ABC loved her performance in Spamalot so much that they offered her a role in any ABC show she wanted.

On January 12, 2007, the ABC newsmagazine program 20 / 20 revealed new evidence that Anthony was Vicki Johnson's fictional creation.

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.

ABC agreed, although they wanted to have one star to help attract European audiences to the film when it would be shown theatrically there.

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.

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.

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.