History[edit]
Early years[edit]
existence as a
Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began soon after the network signed on its initial
owned-and-operated television station (WJZ-TV, now
WABC-TV) and production center in
New York City in August 1948. ABC news broadcasts have continued as the television network expanded nationwide, a process that took many years beginning with its launch in 1948. However, from the 1950s through the early 1970s, ABC News' programs (as was the case with the television network in general during that period) consistently ranked third in viewership behind news programs on
CBS and
NBC. Until the 1970s, the ABC television network had fewer
affiliate stations, as well as a weaker prime-time programming slate to be able to truly support the network's news operations in comparison to the two larger networks, each of which had established their radio news operations during the 1930s.
Under Roone Arledge[edit]
Only after
Roone Arledge, the president of
ABC Sports at the time, was appointed as president of ABC News in 1977, at a time when the network's prime-time entertainment programs were achieving stronger ratings and drawing in higher advertising revenue and profits to the ABC corporation overall, was ABC able to invest the resources to make it a major source of news content. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast "model", created many of ABC News' most popular and enduring programs, including
20/20,
World News Tonight,
This Week,
Nightline and
Primetime Live.
[4]
ABC News' longtime slogan, "More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source" (introduced in the late 1980s), was a claim referring to the number of people who watch, listen and read ABC News content on television, radio and (eventually) the Internet, and not necessarily to the telecasts alone.
[5]
In June 1998, ABC News (which owned an 80% stake in the service),
Nine Network and
ITN sold their respective interests in Worldwide Television News to the
Associated Press. Additionally, ABC News signed a multi-year content deal with AP for its affiliate video service
Associated Press Television News (APTV) while providing material from ABC's news video service ABC News One to APTV.
[6]
Association with ESPN[edit]
ESPN, a sports-news organization with several
cable and
satellite television channels – and also majority owned by ABC parent company The Walt Disney Company – provides sports bulletins and video footage for some of ABC News' programs, especially the network's overnight news programs;
America This Morning features a segment of sports highlights provided by the overnight anchors of ESPN's flagship sports news program
SportsCenter.
Programming[edit]
Current ABC News programs[edit]
Digital programs[edit]
- 10% Happier (2015–present)
- Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis (2014–present)
Podcasts[edit]
- 10% Happier with Dan Harris (March 11, 2016-present)
- 20/20 (November 4, 2017-present)
- A Killing on The Cape (October 25, 2017-present)
- A Murder on Orchard Street (October 3, 2017-present)
- Everybody's Got Something (September 19, 2016-present)
- Motivated (June 26, 2017-present)
- Nightline (November 30, 2017-present)
- No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis (January 9, 2017-present)
- Perspective (November 9, 2017-present)
- Popcorn with Peter Travers (August 26, 2016-present)
- Powerhouse Politics (February 19, 2016-present)
- This Week with George Stephanopoulos (November 12, 2017-present)
- Uncomfortable (March 21, 2017-present)
- World News This Week (November 3, 2017-present)
- World News Tonight with David Muir (December 1, 2017-present)
Former ABC News programs[edit]
Newscast programs[edit]
Newsmagazines[edit]
Public affairs[edit]
- College News Conference (1952 – November 1960)
- Issues and Answers (November 1960 – November 1981)
Other services[edit]
ABC News Radio[edit]
ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the
ABC Television Network in the United States. Formerly known as
ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Skyview Networks with newscasts on the hour to its affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US.
ABCNews.com[edit]
ABCNews.com launched on May 15, 1997 by ABC News Internet Ventures, a joint venture between
Starwave Corporation and ABC formed in April 1997.
[8][9] Starwave had owned and operated ESPNet SportsZone (later known as
ESPN.com) since 1995, which licensed the ESPN brand and video clips from ABC's corporate sister ESPN Inc. Disney wanted more control of their Internet properties, which meant ABCNews.com was operated as joint-venture with ABC News having editorial control.
[10] Disney had also bought a minority stake in Starwave before the launch of ABCNews.com and would later buy the company outright.
[11]
The website initially had a dedicated staff off about 30 people.
[12] In addition to articles, it featured short video clips and audio from the start, delivered using
RealAudio and
RealVideo technology.
[13] Some content was also available via
America Online.
Satellite News Channel[edit]
Satellite News Channel was a joint venture between ABC News and
Group W that started on June 21, 1982 as a satellite-delivered cable television network. SNC used footage from ABC News and 7
Washington, D.C.-based crews, in addition to stories from other overseas networks to provide a rotating newscast every 20 minutes. However, this channel had difficulty getting clearance from cable systems, so ABC News and Group W decided to sell it to its competitor,
CNN (a subsidiary of
TimeWarner's
Turner Broadcasting System). CNN ceased Satellite News Channel's operations on October 27, 1983. SNC was either replaced by CNN or
CNN2 on most cable systems. Group W would eventually shut down 7 years later, in 1999. Following Satellite News Channel's discontinuation, ABC News did not return to the 24-hour cable news world until 22 years later, in 2004, when they launched
ABC News Now, whose launch indicated that Satellite News Channel was ABC News' first attempt in the 24-hour cable news world.
ABC News Now[edit]
Fusion is a
digital cable and
satellite network that is owned & operated by Fusion Media Network, LLC, which was a
joint venture between ABC News and
Univision Communications. ABC and Univision formally announced its launch on May 2, 2012. Launched on October 28, 2013, Fusion features a mix of traditional news and investigative programs along with satirical content aimed at English-speaking
Hispanic and Latino American adults between the ages of 18 and 34.
[15][16] Fusion was ABC News' third attempt in the 24-hour cable news world after
Satellite News Channel in 1982 and
ABC News Now (which it replaced) in 2004. In December 2015, it was reported that Disney was in talks to sell its stake in Fusion to Univision.
[17] The split was complete on April 21, 2016.
[18]
Personnel[edit]
Correspondents and reporters[edit]
- Dan Abrams – chief legal analyst (2011-present)
- Dr. Jennifer Ashton – chief health and medical editor; chief medical correspondent
- Jim Avila – senior national correspondent (2000-present)
- Adrienne Bankert - correspondent; POP news anchor, Good Morning America Weekend
- Dick Baumbach - radio news reporter
- Gio Benitez – correspondent; host, Nightline on Fusion
- Abbie Boudreau – Good Morning America and Nightlinecorrespondent
- Howard Bragman – contributor
- David Brooks – contributor, This Week
- Juju Chang – co-anchor, Nightline (1996-present)
- Ron Claiborne – news anchor, Good Morning America Weekend; correspondent (1986-present)
- Chris Connelly – contributor, Good Morning America and 20/20(2001-present)
- John Donvan – Washington correspondent (1982-1985; 1988-present)
- Matthew Dowd – political contributor; special correspondent (2007-present)
- Paula Faris – co-anchor, Good Morning America Weekend; correspondent; co-host, ABC's The View (2012-present)
- Kendis Gibson – co-anchor, World News Now and America This Morning; correspondent (2013-present)
- Marci Gonzalez – correspondent (2013-present)
- Matt Gutman – senior national correspondent
- Sara Haines – correspondent; co-host, ABC's The View (2013-present)
- Dan Harris – co-anchor, Good Morning America Weekend and Nightline; correspondent; host, 10% Happier
- Lama Hasan – London correspondent (2003-present)
- Brandi "B.M." Hitt – Los Angeles correspondent; reporter and fill-in anchor on KABC-TV
- T. J. Holmes – correspondent (2014-present)
- Sunny Hostin – senior legal correspondent; co-host, ABC's The View (2016-present)
- Linzie Janis – correspondent (2013-present)
- Rebecca Jarvis – chief business, technology and economics correspondent; host, Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis[19]
- Jonathan Karl – chief Washington correspondent; chief White House correspondent
- Aaron Katersky – correspondent
- David Kerley – senior transportation correspondent
- Tom Llamas – weekend anchor, ABC World News Tonight; chief national correspondent
- James Longman – foreign correspondent
- Diane Macedo – co-anchor, World News Now and America This Morning; correspondent
- Rob Marciano – weather anchor, Good Morning America Weekend Edition; senior meteorologist
- Terry Moran – chief foreign correspondent (1997-present)
- David Muir – anchor and managing editor, ABC World News Tonight; co-anchor, 20/20 (2003-present)
- Ben Mulroney – correspondent
- Amna Nawaz – digital anchor; host, Uncomfortable
- Steve Osunsami – Atlanta based correspondent (1997-present)
- Ian Pannell – senior foreign correspondent
- Byron Pitts – co-anchor, Nightline; chief national correspondent
- Steven Portnoy – correspondent, ABC News Radio
- John Qui̱ones Рanchor, What Would You Do? (1982-present)
- Martha Raddatz – co-anchor, This Week; chief global affairs correspondent (1999-present)
- Amy Robach – news anchor, Good Morning America; correspondent (2012-present)
- Cokie Roberts – contributor, This Week (1988-present)
- Deborah Roberts – correspondent, 20/20 (1995-present)
- Robin Roberts – co-anchor, Good Morning America
- Brian Ross – chief investigative correspondent
- Clayton Sandell – Denver correspondent
- Diane Sawyer – anchor (1989-present)
- Jay Schadler – correspondent
- Mara Schiavocampo – correspondent; host, Motivated
- John Schriffen – correspondent
- Rhonda Schwartz – investigative correspondent
- Lara Setrakian – Dubai correspondent
- Claire Shipman – contributor, Good Morning America
- Chris Christie - contributor [20]
- Nate Silver – special correspondent; founder and editor in chief, FiveThirtyEight
- Rachel Smith – entertainment and features correspondent
- Kristen Soltis Anderson – political contributor
- Lara Spencer – co-anchor, Good Morning America
- George Stephanopoulos – chief anchor; co-anchor, Good Morning America; anchor, This Week
- Alex Stone – Los Angeles correspondent, ABC News Radio
- Michael Strahan – co-anchor, Good Morning America
- Pierre Thomas – chief justice correspondent
- Elizabeth Vargas – co-anchor, 20/20 (1996-present)
- Cecilia Vega – senior Washington correspondent
- Kayna Whitworth – Los Angeles-based correspondent
- Bob Woodruff – military correspondent
- Becky Worley – consumer correspondent; technology contributor
- Ginger Zee – weather anchor, Good Morning America; chief meteorologist
- Dave Zinczenko – nutrition and wellness editor
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International broadcasts[edit]
Several ABC News programs are broadcast daily on
OSN News in
MENA
In
Australia,
Sky News Australia airs daily broadcasts of
World News Tonight (at 10:30 a.m.) and
Nightline (at 1:30 a.m.) as well as weekly airings of
20/20 (on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., with an extended version at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays) and occasionally
Primetime (at 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays, with extended edition at 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays). Coincidentally, that country's
public broadcaster, the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, operates its own unrelated news division that is also named
ABC News. The U.S. ABC News maintains a content sharing agreement with the
Nine Network, which also broadcasts
GMA domestically in the early morning before its own
breakfast program.
In
New Zealand,
ABC World News was broadcast daily at 5:10 p.m. and at again at 11:35 p.m. As with the BBC in the U.K.,
TVNZ 7 (owned by
Television New Zealand) aired the program commercial-free, until the channel ceased operations on June 30, 2012.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- Jump up^ A Barometer for New Media: ABC News Begins Online Service, The New York Times Cybertimes, May 12, 1997
- Jump up^ IQ News: That’s A Wrap: Disney Completes Starwave Purchase, Ad Week, May 4, 1998
- Jump up^ ABC News Digital Turns 18: What Happened When We Started a Website, ABCNews.com, May 15, 2015
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- Jump up^ "ABC, Univision teaming on News Network". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. May 7, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- Jump up^ "ABC and Univision Announce New Cable Network 'Fusion' Will Launch Later in 2013". ABC News. February 11, 2013.
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- Jump up^ James, Meg. "Walt Disney Co.'s ABC sells its Fusion stake to Univision, exits joint venture". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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