* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

He also had his own ABC show Hessie's Shed in Australia from late 1997.

Other authors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist / screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D ' Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero.

The show also aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network ( season 1 ) and ABC Television ( seasons 2 and 3 ).

* Greek ( TV series ), an ABC Family show

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

The first was a two-hour Saturday night variety show on ABC in the fall of 1963.

They have one daughter, Spencer Grammer ( born October 9, 1983 ), an actress on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns and the ABC Family show Greek.

The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show.

The series is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely US cast along with being broadcast in the USA on the ABC network.

Although the show remained popular, ABC decided to cancel the show after its fourth season, as Disney and the ABC network could not come to terms for renewal .< ref >

The show returned on ABC in the form of a less frequent series of TV-movies, still starring Falk, from 1989 until 2003.

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show.

In reality, his show was co-owned and first syndicated by Edward F. McLaughlin, former president of ABC who founded EFM Media in 1988, with Limbaugh's show as his first product.

The first science fiction show for adults, was also its first fully science fictional anthology Tales of Tomorrow by ABC on August 3, 1951 lasting until 1953, as there were already similar shows for children.

ABC did not broadcast the halftime show live.

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.

Some of the earliest historiographic texts ( ABC 19, 20 ) suggest he rebuilt the city of Babylon ( Bab-ilu ) in its new location near Akkad.

He also collaborated with musical director Doug Trevor on a one-hour ABC television special entitled ‘’ Pop Goes Davy Jones ’’, which featured new artists The Jackson Five and The Osmonds.

This single FCC action would render all Armstrong-era FM receivers useless within a short time as stations were moved to the new band, while it also protected both RCA's AM-radio stronghold and that of the other major competing networks, CBS, ABC and Mutual.

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U. S .- based ABC television network.

The series ran on ABC Television for an hour each weekday in the 1955 – 1956 and 1956 – 1957 seasons ( from 5: 00 to 6: 00 pm ET ), and only a half-hour weekdays ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ) in 1957 – 1958, the final season to feature new programming.

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.

Following the game ABC premiered the television drama Extreme starring James Brolin ; this was the last series to premiere following the Super Bowl until Family Guy premiered following Super Bowl XXXIII and is one of only four in the last fourteen years to premiere following a Super Bowl ( joining Family Guy, its spinoff American Dad !, and Undercover Boss which premiered following Super Bowl XLIV ), since the networks have preferred to have new episodes of established shows to catch as much of the post-game audience as possible.

Of the new series premiering after the Super Bowl from 1983 – 95, only The A-Team ( NBC, after Super Bowl XVII ), The Wonder Years ( ABC, after XXII ), and Homicide: Life on the Street ( NBC, after XXVII ) had lengthy runs.

The owner of the farm was not paid, but ABC did compensate by building him a new barn.

There was a new fashion, " ABC "-Anything But Chardonnay, identified by Frank Prial in 1995.

* " ABC Boogie ( new version )" ( by Haley ) / " Rock Around the Clock " ( by Phil Flowers ( Kasey 7006 )

In 2011, Opera Australia launched a new digital strategy in order to bring high-definition recordings of its operas to cinemas ( in collaboration with CinemaLive ), as well as launching DVD, Blu-ray and CD releases on its own label and broadcasting these recordings on ABC Television.

In 1976, the show's success, and celebrity panelist Richard Dawson's popularity, prompted Goodson-Todman to develop a new show for ABC entitled Family Feud with Dawson hosting.

Although the syndicated Match Game was not a direct cause of the ratings problems Love of Life facedthe 4: 00 PM timeslot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for CBS, NBC, and ABC for years and Love of Life had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon many stations ran the syndicated series against the veteran soap opera and, in the case of some CBS affiliates and owned-and-operated stations, preempted Love of Life in favor of the new Match Game.

The corporate name became American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. Edward Noble remained on the new ABC's board of directors until his death in 1958 ; he and Goldenson would disagree at times over the direction ABC would now take.

His two-part campaign paid off when the " new " ABC hit the air on October 27, 1954.

Beaudin made the bold move on January 1, 1968, when he split the ABC Radio Network into four new " networks ", each one with format-specific news and features for pop-music -, news -, or talk-oriented stations.

During this period of the 1960s, ABC founded an in-house production unit, ABC Films, to create new material especially for the network.

Broadcasting in color from the mid-1960s, ABC started using the new science of demographics to tweak its programming and ad sales.

With this new relationship came an attempt at cross-promotion, with attractions based on ABC shows at Disney parks and an annual soap festival at Walt Disney World.

A new national phenomenon, Survivor, on CBS persuaded the schedulers at ABC to change Millionaires slot over to the Wednesday Time slot at 8: 00 to kill Survivor before it got a ratings hold.

In 2008 ABC committed $ 70 million to build a new HDTV facility.