WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its highly successful version of the Eyewitness News format and for its morning show Live!

After SNC folded, Iovanna, who began her broadcasting career in radio, joined WABC-TV in New York City.

Between 1975 and 1980, she created such characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, an obnoxious woman with wild black hair whose trademark complaint, " It's always something -- if it ain't one thing, it's another ", gave her autobiography its title, and who would tell stories about the gross habits of celebrities on the show's " Weekend Update " news segment, inspired in name and appearance by Rose Ann Scamardella, a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City.

In 1980, Hill left Good Morning America and was replaced by Joan Lunden, then a reporter at ABC's New York City flagship station WABC-TV.

Shortly thereafter, in early 1972, Geraldo Rivera, then an investigative reporter for WABC-TV in New York, conducted a series of investigations at Willowbrook uncovering a host of deplorable conditions, including overcrowding, inadequate sanitary facilities, and physical and sexual abuse of residents by members of the school's staff.

On November 22, 1963, the third season episode " Man About Town " was being rerun on several ABC affiliates ( WABC-TV in New York was airing a local repeat of The Ann Sothern Show ) when at 1: 42 PM EST, ABC News broke into the program with the first bulletin of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

On March 2, 2010, WABC-TV in New York along with Philadelphia sister station WPVI ( carried in Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties ) stated that they would pull their programming from Cablevision on March 7, 2010 ( at midnight ), unless a new payment structure is implemented for its network programming.

* Amy Freeze-chief meteorologist ( 2007 – 2011 ; now at WABC-TV in New York )

* David Novarro-morning anchor ( 2000 – 2010 ; now at WABC-TV in New York )

Technically, the game was only simulcast in the Boston market, with a separate broadcast produced for the New York market by ESPN sister property WABC-TV – at the time, WABC's union contract prohibited non-union workers ( like those of ESPN ) from working on live events broadcast on the station.

However, he added a new twist at WABC-TV — light, informal-sounding conversation among the anchors between the news stories and segments, which came to be known as " happy talk ".

Before Fox, she worked at WCBS-TV and WABC-TV.

Some stations that aired Rosie also aired Caroline Rhea, but some ( like WABC-TV in New York, which gave the former Rosie spot to The Wayne Brady Show ) aired the show at an undesirable late-night time slot.

Eventually, he became the station's lead anchor at 6: 00 and 11: 00, and as of 2011 has the longest tenure among English-language anchor persons in New York television history, surpassing Bill Beutel, who worked 37 years over three stints at WABC-TV.

He returned to local sportscasting with a job at WABC-TV in New York in 1976, and then in 1980 moved to rival New York station WCBS-TV.

Liz Cho ( born December 19, 1970 ) is a local news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City.

Cho started at WABC-TV on July 6, 2003, replacing Diana Williams at 6 p. m. and 11 p. m.

She joined Nightly Business Report in 1998 after a 20-year career working at some of America ’ s most prestigious print and broadcast organizations, including CNBC, NBC, ESPN, and WABC-TV / New York.

Beutel moved to ABC on October 22, 1962 as a reporter with ABC News and as anchor at the network's New York flagship, WABC-TV.

Beutel retired from television in February 2003, having served as an anchor at WABC-TV for a total of 37 years — giving him the longest run in New York television history until he was surpassed by Rafael Pineda, who has been anchor at Spanish-language station WXTV since 1972.

* Note: When Beutel was hired at WABC-TV, the news director did not like the sound of his last name,.

Mr. Dunn served in that same role for WABC-TV from 1969 – 1970 and at WOR-TV from 1971-1987.

In 1965 he was promoted to News Director Philadelphia's KYW-TV where he launched the Eyewitness News format ( the name itself had been used for some years before that by Westinghouse's TV stations for its local newscasts, and in fact was first used by KYW itself in 1959 when it was based in Cleveland, Ohio ), and in 1968 he took the format with him to his new job at WABC-TV, the ABC outlet in New York City.

The call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theaters, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U. S. government.

Flagship 1: WABC-TV, New York City

In 1953, WJZ in New York and its sister television station took on the abandoned call-letters WABC and WABC-TV.

The network picked up its first primary affiliates, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia ( now WPVI-TV ) and WMAL-TV in Washington ( now WJLA-TV ) before its flagship owned and operated station (" O & O "), WJZ-TV in New York ( now WABC-TV ) signed on in August of that year.

WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City.

On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers.

The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV ( later WABC-TV ) and moved to WOR-TV ( later WWOR-TV ) from 1962 to 1993.

* Lori Stokes ( born 1962 ), morning anchorwoman for WABC-TV.

* Bill Beutel, news reporter and anchor for ABC News and WABC-TV in New York City, resided in Pinehurst following his retirement from broadcast journalism.

After a brief career in law enforcement where he served the New York City Police Department as an investigator, Rivera returned to law and became a lawyer for a New York Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, and attracted the attention of WABC-TV news director Al Primo when he was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlem church in 1969.

Geraldo Rivera was hired by WABC-TV in 1970 as a reporter for Eyewitness News.

Meanwhile, there were also two different morning-show predecessors on WABC-TV in New York City.

The Morning Show, co-hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey, premiered locally on WABC-TV in New York on April 4, 1983.

( now hosted by Kelly Ripa ) has been produced and distributed by ABC's syndication wing, primarily for ABC stations, but produced by ABC's station in New York, WABC-TV.

That same year, a dinner party performance for television personality Kathie Lee Gifford led to Rockapella's 1988 appearance on the WABC-TV show The Morning Show, Regis Philbin and Gifford's NYC morning talk show before it went national.

For example, ABC already owned WABC-TV, 77 WABC and WABC-FM ( now WPLJ ), and so could continue to own all three stations after the law was passed.

* 1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements ; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

Primo later brought the format in 1968 to WABC-TV New York.

On June 24, 1985, she replaced Ann Abernathy as co-host of The Morning Show on WABC-TV with Regis Philbin.