American Broadcasting Company
American broadcast television network
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC), legally American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., is an American commercial broadcasting television network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The youngest of the "Big Three" American television networks, the network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet in order.
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This entry incorporates text from “American Broadcasting Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.