History of the American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American multinational commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Walt Disney Television, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, is in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The network's history dates back to 1927, when the network was created as an NBC-operated radio network called the NBC Blue Network. It would later become an independent television network known as the American Broadcasting Company in 1943, and be purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.
Blue Network
In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies: the Columbia Broadcasting System , the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company . The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America , which owned two radio networks that each ran different varieties of programming, NBC Blue and NBC Red. The NBC Blue Network was created in 1927 for the primary purpose of testing new programs on markets of lesser importance than those served by NBC Red, which served the major cities, and to test drama series.

[@anotherguy2741]

What's the point of showing the photo if Seinfeld in this video? That was on NBC.

[@syxepop]

That is how LOW the production values on this video sunk to...

[@timothystockman7533]

You need to remove the periods after the initials in peoples names, because your text to speech program thinks they mark the end of the sentence, so it puts lowered inflection and a pause.

[@syxepop]

This was so LAZILY produced that this was just a READ of the Wikipedia article I've just posted the link to (if it disappears just find by the title of this video on Wikipedia).

[@barryobrien7935]

You mention TV network in 1943. That would be RADIO. ABC TV started in 1948. A few programs were tested on WABD DuMont prior to WJZ-TV (today’s WABC) being launched.

[@charlessavoie2367]

Yeah this one always had Pilgrims Society members on its board of directors.

[@dstankalis]

Just wondering. Why is Seinfeld (which was broadcast on NBC) on the slide show?

[@robertlinkroum5964]

Interesting news at 3m:26s, that George B. Storer (Storer Broadcasting Company • 7 TVs + 7 AMs + 7 FMs) I worked at the Storer Broadcasting stations on Western Avenue (Before KoreaTown was KoreaTown) in L.A.• KGBS 1020 AM Los Angeles = Successor • KTNQ 1020 AM Los Angeles ( also known as TEN-Q) & KGBS 97.1 FM Los Angeles = Successor • KHTZ 97.1 Los Angeles.

[@DiscerningWon]

Couldn't this guy read it faster, to make it even harder to follow?

[@gwenniegirl50]

The “guy” is AI but I agree, the speed is way too fast

[@frankbruno9499]

ABC on the block,again?

[@hollowcow]

Speech-to-text is the worst. This video is that bad.

[@AI4QT]

"Robotic voices" are annoying.

[@gwenniegirl50]

Thumbs down because audio was way too fast.