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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.

Specials

ABCNews.com

Current Anchors

Current and past personalities

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.

The ABC News program entitled ABC's World News appears regularly at 1.30am on the BBC News 24 channel in the UK.

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 that 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/San Francisco earthquake live.

Arledge turned ABC News into a broadcasting titan, regularly defeating rivals NBC and CBS. ABC would remain dominant for over two decades.

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 had faked his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne University [1]. Furthermore, in September 2007, the French news media Rue 89 revealed that Alexis Debat had made at least two bogus interviews, one of Barrack Obama and another of Alan Greenspan, both published in the French magazine Politique internationale [2][3]. This in turn also led to his resignation from The National Interest [1]. Debat had specialized in reports on terrorism and national security for the past six years (writing for example on the Jundallah Balochi and Sunni organisation [4] and many other subjects)[1].

In popular culture

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Broadcast news divisions: ABC News • CBS News • NBC News
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ABC News might refer to:
  • ABC News, United States
  • ABC News (Australia)
  • ABC News (Philippines)
  • ABC News Network Private Limited aka Accurate Brave & Compact News Organization

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David Westin is currently president of ABC News (since March 6 1997). He is responsible for all aspects of ABC News’ broadcasts, including World News Tonight, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Primetime,
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This Week is one of the five network U.S. Sunday morning political talk shows. It has aired on Sunday mornings on the ABC since 1981 and has been hosted by George Stephanopoulos since September 2002.
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World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight and often abbreviated as WNT) is an American television news program. It is the ABC network's flagship news series, and the most watched network evening newscast in the country
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20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects.
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Primetime is a general-interest American news magazine show which debuted on ABC in 1989 with co-hosts Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer and originally had the title Primetime Live.
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i-Caught (official typeset i-CAUGHT) is an ABC News newsmagazine program hosted by Bill Weir. It premiered August 7, 2007 at 10PM ET/PT. Originally a midseason project, six episodes have been ordered to air this summer.
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World News Now (often abbreviated as WNN) is ABC's overnight news program. Its presentation is typically lighthearted, irreverent and comical. Several well-known news personalities, including Thalia Assuras (CBS News), Aaron Brown (CNN), Alison Stewart (MSNBC and NPR), Liz
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ABC News Radio is ABC News's radio news service. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio runs, through ABC Radio Networks, newscasts on the hour transmitted to its more than 2,000 affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US.
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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.

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