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ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin.

Current programs

ABC News Radio distributes, through ABC Radio Networks, newscasts on the hour, live feeds and specialty news programming to some 2,000 local affiliates. ABC NewsOne is ABC News's affiliate news service. It gathers and feeds regional, national and international news material to ABC affiliates around the country and foreign networks. ABC News Now is the ABC's 24/7 news channel available online and other sources such as mobile phones.
   A 30 second "ABC News Brief" is broadcast weekdays at 2:58pm ET, between One Life to Live and General Hospital.
   A news brief containing information relevant to college students is shown every hour on MtvU, and ABC News segments are packaged or customized for broadcast over Wal-Mart's in-store television network. ESPN, also owned by Disney, provides sports bulletins and video for some of ABC's newscasts, especially the overnight programs.
   ABC News shows Primetime during the summer months along with i-CAUGHT.

Specials

ABC 2000 Today

Peter Jennings Reporting

The Century

Give Me a Break (20/20 spinoff)

ABCNews.com

The Note

International broadcasts

ABC News programming is shown daily on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes several shows from ABC News. It's also available online at ABC News Now. ABC's World News appears regularly at 1.30am local time on BBC News Channel in the UK, which itself may be simulcast on BBC One or Two during the overnight period. Commercials are removed as the BBC's UK services are financed by a license fee. ABC and the BBC also share video and reporters as needed in producing their newscasts.
In Australia, The ABC World News program airs at 10.30am daily and the Nightline program airs at 1.30am daily on Sky News Australia. The Primetime airs at 2pm Saturdays (Extended Edition) and 1.30pm Thursdays. The 20/20 program airs at 2pm Sundays (Extended Edition) and Wednesdays at 1.30pm.

History

Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, ABC News wasn't a major news player compared to CBS News and NBC News. It wasn't until Roone Arledge became the President of ABC News in 1977 that the network finally became a major player in news. 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.
   ABC News gained respect in the early 1980s by covering the Iran Hostage Crisis and, later, for covering the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area live.
   Arledge turned ABC News into a broadcasting titan, regularly defeating rivals NBC and CBS. ABC would remain dominant for over two decades.
   ABC News' slogan, More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source, refers to the number of people who watch, listen, and read to ABC News programming on television, radio, and the Internet, although NBC has had the stronger television news programming for some time.

Resignation of bogus consultant

Alexis Debat, a consultant of ABC News and also writer at The National Interest, resigned from ABC News in June 2007 after that the company discovered that he'd faked his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne University. Furthermore, in September 2007, the French news media Rue 89 revealed that Alexis Debat had made at least two bogus interviews, one of Barack Obama and another of Alan Greenspan, both published in the French magazine Politique internationale . This in turn also led to his resignation from The National Interest. and many other subjects

In popular culture

In the 1975 television special Out to Lunch, the cast of Sesame Street and The Electric Company take over ABC News, when the department staff head out to lunch.

In the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ABC News appears briefly with a "Special Report".

Current ABC News Lead Anchor Charles Gibson appears in the Disney film The Rookie anchoring World News Tonight and introduces a package about Jim Morris, the main character of the film.

In Ugly Betty ABC News is referenced in the episode Trust, Lust, and Must.Further Information

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