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ABC, abbreviated the American Broadcasting Company, launched on April 19, 1948. It began using in-credit text logos on their programs in 1953. Since then, NBC, CBS and ABC were known as the three traditional commercial broadcast television networks. They have dominated television for more than 30 years.

Partnership with Disney

ABC was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995. Beginning on September 28, 1997, this company aired movies once a week on Sundays, under The Wonderful World of Disney series, which lasted through Christmas Eve (December 24) of 2008.

Children's programming

The network's first children's programming block, Disney's One Saturday Morning, launched on September 13, 1997, and ran for two hours every Saturday morning on ABC. Five years later, on September 14, 2002, the same day when Discovery Kids on NBC also launched, Disney's One Saturday Morning was replaced by a new block called ABC Kids. Most shows that aired there were originally from Disney Channel. ABC Kids lasted for nine years, through August 27, 2011.

ABC today

ABC's official website (abc.com, later abc.go.com) launched on May 22, 1996.

ABC began broadcasting their programs in HDTV (16:9/1080i) format since the 2000s, and analog transmissions were shut down on June 12, 2009, like in all other over-the-air television networks.

Programming

Title	Premiere date (first known)	Ended (or last aired)
Grinch Night	October 29, 1977
Pontoffel Pock and His Magic Piano	May 2, 1980	July 29, 1981
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat	May 20, 1982	August 7, 1983
Mary Poppins	May 3, 1987	November 24, 1988
Full House	September 22, 1987	August 29, 1995
Sonic the Hedgehog	September 18, 1993	June 3, 1995
Hook	December 11, 1994	December 26, 1996
The Lion King	November 3, 1996	May 10, 1998
Toy Story	September 28, 1997	June 3, 2006
Pocahontas	March 1, 1998	February 3, 2002
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	October 18, 1998
Matilda	March 14, 1999
Hercules	May 23, 1999
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	October 17, 1999	October 22, 2000
Mulan	May 14, 2000
The Mask	May 21, 2000	September 23, 2001
A Bug's Life	September 30, 2001	February 16, 2018
Toy Story 2	November 4, 2001	June 10, 2006
Beauty and the Beast (Platinum Edition)	November 10, 2002
The Lion King: Special Edition	February 7, 2004
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	May 9, 2004	February 7, 2015
Monsters, Inc.	October 30, 2004	June 14, 2008
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)	November 25, 2004	December 25, 2014
Aladdin	January 22, 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	May 7, 2005	May 29, 2016
Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition	June 25, 2005
Finding Nemo	November 24, 2005	May 25, 2016
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	October 28, 2006	February 20, 2010
Shrek 2	November 24, 2006	December 26, 2009
The Cat in the Hat (2003)	August 25, 2007	December 20, 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	April 26, 2008	December 29, 2012
Shrek the Third	November 20, 2009	May 2, 2015
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	February 27, 2010	December 30, 2012
Despicable Me	February 9, 2013	January 31, 2015
Toy Story 3	February 9, 2014	present
Up	February 16, 2014	present
Toy Story (2010 Re-Release)	December 10, 2015	May 21, 2016
Mary Poppins (50th Anniversary Edition)	December 12, 2015	December 9, 2017
Monsters University	April 23, 2016	May 13, 2017
Frozen	December 11, 2016	September 30, 2018
Tangled	February 19, 2017
Big Hero 6	August 5, 2017	present
Inside Out	February 7, 2018
Wreck-It Ralph	February 23, 2018
Toy Story 2 (2010 Re-Release)	May 15, 2019
The Lion King (2011 Re-Release)	May 28, 2019
The Lego Movie	September 5, 2019

Weblinks

http://www.abc.com

ABC.com (1996-1998)

Gallery

Television networks
NBC Universal	Over-the-air	NBC
	Cable	USA Network • Syfy • Universal Kids
	Streaming	Peacock
ViacomCBS	Over-the-air	CBS • UPN
	Cable	Nickelodeon • TeenNick
	Streaming	Paramount+
Warner Bros.	Over-the-air	The WB • CW Network
	Cable	HBO • Cinemax • TBS • TNT • Cartoon Network
	Streaming	HBO Max
Walt Disney	Over-the-air	ABC • FOX
	Cable	Disney Channel • FX Networks • Toon Disney (1998-2009) • Freeform • Disney XD
	Streaming	Disney+
Other	Over-the-air	Broadcast syndication • PBS • PBS Kids
	Cable	Hub Network (2010-2014) • Discovery Family
	Streaming	Netflix • Hulu • HBO Max • Paramount+

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