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The American Broadcasting Company, owned by the [[Disney|Walt Disney Company]] since 1996, was spawned from [[NBC]] in 1943, where it originated as the "NBC Blue" radio network as the result of an antitrust ruling. It changed its name to ABC the following year, and launched its television network in 1948.
In [[The Fifties|the '50s]], ABC was the traditional third-runner in the American [[Ratings]], usually finishing a distant last to the other, "older" networks. Starting in [[The Sixties|the '60s]], however, ABC began to make up for this by targeting younger audiences with shows like ''[[American Bandstand]]'', ''[[The Mod Squad]]'', ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' and ''Room 222'', as well as traditional [[Dom Com]] fare like ''[[
ABC's run at the top stretched into [[The Eighties|the '80s]], but began to slip midway through the decade. The once-moribund [[NBC]] was experiencing its resurgence under Brandon Tartikoff, and hit shows like ''[[Three's Company
In [[The Nineties|the '90s]] and [[Turn of the Millennium|early 2000s]], the network's only success story was its spectacular subversion of the [[Friday Night Death Slot]], the ''TGIF'' comedy block on Fridays, which featured such shows as ''[[Full House]]'', ''[[Family Matters]]'' and ''[[
Midway through the decade, however, ABC finally regained its footing. It finally found its [[Reality TV]] hit in 2003 with ''[[
Not to be confused with the [[The ABC|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] or with the Japanese network Asahi Broadcasting Corporation ([[TV Asahi]]'s Osaka affiliate), which both have the same abbreviations.
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