Who is CEO of ABC?
Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
Simon Redlich has been the permanent CEO of ABC UK since 25 November 2016. He was previously announced as the interim CEO in January 2016, replacing Jerry Wright who stepped down from the role after more than seven years.
Thomas W. Moore
Thomas Waldrop "Tom" Moore (September 17, 1918 – 31 March 2007) was an American television executive who headed ABC in the 1960s.
Disney–ABC Television Group
On April 21, 2016, Disney–ABC sold its share in Fusion to Univision. In September 2016, the group's president Ben Sherwood named Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy chairman and former head of Warner Bros. TV Group, as president of business operations in s the newly created position, to reduce the number of direct reports from 17 to about 8. Roseblum would oversee ad sales in conjunction with channel heads, affiliate sales and marketing, engineering, digital media, global distribution, IT, research and strategy and business development. This allows Sherwood to focus on content and direct operating units that continue to directly report to him, ABC network units, cable channel units (Disney Channels Worldwide, and Freeform), ABC Studios and ABC TV Stations.
Patricia Fili-Krushel
Patricia Fili-Krushel (born 1953) is an American businesswoman and media executive. Fili-Krushel has served as Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, Executive Vice President, Administration at Time Warner Inc., CEO of WebMD, President of the ABC Television Network, and President of ABC Daytime. She is currently CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.
Allan Ashbolt
Allan Campbell Ashbolt (24 November 1921 – 9 June 2005) was an Australian journalist and television broadcaster.
He was born in Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School, and served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War II. Following the war, Ashbolt began acting and helped establish the Mercury Theatre with Peter Finch before he was hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a producer.
In 1959 he was appointed as the ABC's first North America correspondent, and during 1963 he served as a correspondent and executive producer of "Four Corners", which has become Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. He was known for his belief that the ABC should promote free speech and controversial political content.
Steve Burke (businessman)
Steve Burke is an Irish Catholic. His father, Daniel B. Burke was a former president of Capital Cities Communications, former owner of the ABC network. He graduated from Colgate University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
5 (TV channel)
In March 2008, Cojuangco announced that ABC had reached a partnership with MPB Primedia Inc., a local company backed by Media Prima Berhad of Malaysia as part of a long-term strategy to make the network more competitive. MPB Primedia, meanwhile, was formed to serve as seed asset for Media Prima's proposed private equity fund to invest in various media companies within Southeast Asia. Cojuangco said MPB Primedia Inc., in principle, would produce and source most of the entertainment programs while ABC would continue to be responsible for news programming and operation of the stations. MPB Primedia was also given exclusive right to schedule and manage sale of ABC-5's airtime. Christopher Sy was named CEO of MPB Primedia, Inc.; he served in that capacity until his resignation in January 2009 due to reported differences in management style.
American Broadcasting Company
Since 1974, ABC has generally aired "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" on New Year's Eve, hosted first by its creator Dick Clark, and later by his successor Ryan Seacrest. The only exception was in 1999, when ABC instead broadcast "ABC 2000"—a day-long telecast produced by ABC News and hosted by Peter Jennings, covering festivities from around the world (although Clark would join Jennings to cover Times Square). ABC is also among one of several broadcasters of the Tournament of Roses Parade the next day (although the Rose Bowl Game itself now airs exclusively on ESPN after previously airing on ABC).
Albert Cheng (executive)
Albert Cheng (born November 1970) is Chief Operating Officer of Amazon Studios. He was the executive vice president and chief product officer of digital media for Disney-ABC Television Group. Albert Cheng is an alumnus from Punahou School, in Honolulu, HI. Cheng graduated with a Bachelor of Science from MIT and a M.B.A from Harvard Business School. He serves on the Board of Directors of BMI.
Richard E. Besser
Richard E. Besser (born 1959) is an American doctor and executive who serves as President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (effective April 2017 – present). Besser is the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and ABC News' former chief health and medical editor.
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ABC
List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company
ABC Productions was formed in 1989 as ABC Network's in-house production unit after the alteration of the fin-syn rules that increased network ownership to only 40% of prime-time programs. Former ABC Motion Pictures president and ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard on March 21, 1989 to head up the then unnamed production unit.
ABC Radio (United States)
ABC Radio is a radio network in the United States. It is under the ownership of The Walt Disney Company, parent company of American Broadcasting Company (ABC), with satellite distribution being handled by Skyview Networks. It launched on January 1, 2015.
American Broadcasting Company
In the early 1970s, Michael Eisner, who joined ABC in 1966, became the network's program development manager. He helped bring about ideas for many series including "Happy Days" (which originated as a segment on the anthology series "Love, American Style"), as well as several soap operas; however, Eisner's main credit at ABC was for developing youth-oriented programming. He was responsible for reacquiring the rights to the Looney Tunes-Merrie Melodies library, bringing the shorts back to ABC after spending several years on CBS, as well as developing "The Jackson 5ive" animated series and a series about the Osmonds, and greenlighting "Super Friends", based on DC Comics' Justice League of America series He also laid ground-work for the development of educational children's programming (predating the 1990 Congressional passage of the Children's Television Act) through interstitials such as "Time for Timer", "The Bod Squad" and, perhaps most famously, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Eisner left ABC in 1976 to become president of Paramount Pictures; he would later become the President of ABC's eventual parent company, Disney.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In September 2018 it was announced that Michelle Guthrie had left the position of Managing Director, after ""directors resolved that it was not in the best interests of the ABC for Ms Guthrie to continue to lead the organisation"".
Ted Harbert
Edward W. "Ted" Harbert III (born June 15, 1955) is an American broadcasting and television executive. He was the Chairman of NBC Broadcasting, and the President and CEO of the Comcast Entertainment Group, and Chairman of ABC Entertainment.
Jane Root
Root is CEO and the Managing Director is Carl Griffin, a former Disney, Universal and HBO exec. Other board members are Michael Jackson (television executive) and Peter Bazalgette.
Martin Starger
Martin Starger (born May 8, 1932) is an American entertainment entrepreneur. He led ABC Entertainment (a wing of the American Broadcasting Company) during its boom period in the 1970s, pioneering the creation of television shows such as "ABC Movie of the Week", "Marcus Welby, M.D." and "Happy Days". He also pushed the limits of television broadcast presiding over pioneering miniseries and specials such as "Roots" and "Rich Man, Poor Man".
Charlie Ebersol
Charles Duncan Ebersol, (born December 1982) is an American television and film producer and director, based out of Los Angeles. Ebersol is best known as the co-founder of The Company with Justin Hochberg, executive producer of USA Network’s "NFL Characters Unite" and a co-producer of "The Profit" on CNBC. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the Alliance of American Football.
Pilot (Body of Proof)
On May 14, 2010, it was announced "Body of Proof" had been picked up by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Along with the announcement of ten new shows, ABC President Steve McPherson said, "Our passion for great storytelling is at the core of everything we do. Finding and supporting writers, directors, producers and actors who share that passion is critical to our success. Our shows are the product of these collaborations, and we are thrilled to add 10 new series to our schedule". Gross believed that ABC had been looking for their version of "House".
Hlaudi Motsoeneng
Hlaudi Motsoeneng is the leader of African Content Movement (ACM) who served as the acting Chief operating officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) from 2011 to 2013. Motsoeneng was removed from his position as Chief operating officer after it had been found that he lied about his qualifications. After being removed as acting Chief operating officer it was announced that Motsoeneng would move back to his previous position as Group Executive Editor of Provinces and Corporate Affairs of the SABC. In December 2016, the Western Cape High Court ruled that Motsoeneng’s appointment as Group Executive was illegal and that he was “not entitled to occupy any position at the SABC”.
Association for Business Communication
The current executive director of the ABC is James M. Dubinsky (Virginia Tech). He took office in 2011.
Jason Kilar
Jason Kilar (born April 26, 1971) is an American businessperson and a member of the board of directors for DreamWorks Animation. He was previously an Amazon executive and the CEO of Hulu, a joint venture of ABC, NBC Universal, and NewsCorp.
Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)
Thomas S. Murphy (born May 31, 1925) is an American broadcast executive, and was chair and chief executive officer of Capital Cities / ABC, Inc. until 1996. Together with fellow Capital Cities executive Daniel Burke, Murphy engineered the 1986 acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company in 1986 for $3.5 billion. Murphy and Burke, who served as President and Chief Executive of ABC until 1994, are credited with increasing the profitability and efficiency of ABC.
Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler also appeared on the ABC's "Inside Business" from 2002 to 2013 and continues to appear on ABC News. He was chairman of Melbourne University Press between 2008 and 2012.
He is married to journalist and author Deborah Forster and has three children.
List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company
In June 1995, Stoddard stepped down as ABC Productions president. On June 7, 1996 due to the merger with Disney, Capital Cities/ABC indicated that its ABC Productions division operations would be shut down while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television Productions, ABC/Kane Productions, DIC Entertainment and Greengrass Productions. ABCP executive in charge Brian McAndrews continued managing ABC's other production arms for TV movies, documentaries and children's programming and production interests with DreamWorks SKG, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment and Jim Henson Productions. McAndrews left in early March 1998 for an ABC Sports position, while Greengrass Productions was folded into ABC Entertainment and its telefilm unit, ABC Pictures, would finish its last five projects then disband.
Jonathan Shier
Shier resigned from the ABC in December 2001 when he felt he could no longer work with the government-appointed chairman, Donald McDonald, and it was clear that a majority of the board would support the chairman. When Shier left the ABC he was given a million-dollar payout. Since 2002 Shier has been the chairman and CEO of Continental Ventures (Australia).
Merrin Dungey
Dungey was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the younger daughter of Don Dungey, a general services manager and Judith Dungey. As a child, she was active in ballet and dance as well as piano. Dungey was also an accomplished ice skater. Dungey graduated in 1989 from Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, California. After high school, Dungey earned a degree of Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in 1993. Dungey has one sister, Channing Dungey, who was named president of ABC Entertainment in February 2016.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The operations of the ABC are governed by a board of directors, consisting of a managing director, five to seven directors, and until 2006, a staff-elected director. The managing director is appointed by the board for a period of up to five years, but is eligible for renewal. The authority and guidelines for the appointment of directors is provided for in the "Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983".
ABC Learning
ABC was voluntarily liquidated in 2008 and was acquired by GoodStart Childcare in December 2009. Re-branded as "Goodstart Early Learning", the organisation is now a registered charity owned by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Mission Australia, The Benevolent Society and Social Ventures Australia. the CEO of Goodstart was British-born Julia Davison. Davison worked in hospital administration in Britain, then headed government agencies in South Australia.
Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts (born June 28, 1959) is an American businessman who currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Comcast, an American company providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and services which was founded by his father, Ralph J. Roberts.
WJLA-TV
Rumors abounded from the mid-1990s onward that ABC might buy WJLA-TV, effectively reuniting it with its former radio sisters. Indeed, in the summer of 1998, ABC's corporate parent the Walt Disney Company discussed a possible acquisition of Allbritton Communications, but a sale agreement failed to materialize. ABC eventually sold most of its radio properties, including WMAL and WRQX, to Citadel Broadcasting Corporation in June 2007. Even so, WJLA remained an ABC affiliate under Allbritton's ownership because the company had an exclusive affiliation deal with the network. After WJZ-TV in Baltimore switched to CBS in 1995, WJLA became ABC's longest-tenured television affiliate.
Mark Mandala
Mark Mandala (? - July 11, 2009) was an American television executive who served as the President of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from 1985 until 1994. He retired in 1994 after a 32 year career with ABC.
Sergio Gordilho
Sergio Gordilho (born May 16, 1970), is a businessman and creative director. Gordilho is co-president and chief creative officer of Africa agency, one of the ten largest advertising agency (agencies) in Brazil and a partner of ABC Group, the largest communications holding company in Latin America.
Anne Sweeney
From October 2000 to April 2004, Sweeney served as president of ABC Cable Networks Group and The Disney Channel Worldwide. Continuing with the strategy that was begun by her predecessor John F. Cooke, The Disney Channel more than quintupled its subscriber base with its mix of original series and movies and acquired programming. It is now available on basic cable in more than 87 million homes in the United States. Disney Channel executives hoped to become more "boy friendly" in 2010; especially when "Good Luck Charlie" premiered and when "Aaron Stone" and "Zeke and Luther" joined the main program line-up.
Disney–ABC Television Group
ABC Group chairman Robert A. Iger was named president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company in January 2000. In 2000, with an investment by Bain Capital and Chase Capital Partners, Heyward re-purchased DIC Enterprises.
Ben Hoberman
Hoberman was born to a Jewish family in Chisholm, Minnesota. In 1979, Hoberman left KABC to become president of ABC Radio in New York. He supervised six satellite networks, twelve AM and FM stations, and syndicated programs, such as Casey Kasem's "American Top 40". He later joined former ABC president Elton Rule and others in an unsuccessful attempt to gather enough money for a takeover of the ABC Radio division. In 2003, he was named to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.
Ben Sherwood
Benjamin Berkley "Ben" Sherwood (born February 12, 1964) is an American writer, journalist, and producer who currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, and the President of Disney-ABC Television Group. Sherwood is the former President of ABC News.
Herb Granath
Herb Granath is an American sportscaster. In 2001 he was awarded the Sports Emmy for Sports Lifetime Achievement Award. Granath spent the bulk of his career with ABC, spearheading their movements into cable and international television. He has also served as Chairman of the Board for ESPN, A&E, The History Channel, Lifetime Television and Disney/ABC International. He also served president of Capital Cities/ABC's Video Enterprises. Following his time with ABC, he served as co-chairman of Crown Media Holdings, vice chairman of Central European Media, and senior content adviser to Telenet. Granath is a graduate of Fordham University and spent time in the military at the beginning of his career. Granath's wife of over sixty years is Ann Flood.
Kate Torney
Kate Torney is the CEO of the State Library of Victoria. She took over the role from Sue Roberts. Torney was the ABC News (Australia) Director for the final 6 years of a 20-year career there. During this time, Torney oversaw the launch of ABC News 24, as well as working in a variety of roles including as a radio and TV reporter, producer, bureau chief, executive producer and editor.
Donald McDonald (ABC chairperson)
Donald Benjamin McDonald AC (born 1 September 1938) is an Australian arts administrator who between 1996 and 2006 was Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's national public broadcaster. In 2007, he was appointed director of the Australian Classification Board for five years.
American Broadcasting Company
A major reshuffle in executive leadership also occurred after Disney announced its acquisition of 21st Century Fox On November 16, 2018, Freeform President Karey Burke had succeeded Channing Dungey as head of ABC Entertainment. It was also announced that former head of 20th Century Fox Television Dana Walden had been appointed to take over as head of ABC, Freeform, and all other Disney television-studio operations. Former Fox executive Peter Rice will also manage non-sports television programming for ABC and other Disney networks as well.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng
After being back for 9 months he was appointed as Acting COO. Motsoeneng is best known for his controversial tenure as COO of the SABC and close relationship with President Jacob Zuma. During his time at SABC Motsoeneng blocked any critical coverage of President Jacob Zuma leading the Public Protector to state that his actions threatened to entrench a culture of impunity of people in power. He was also widely known for the unusual nature of his press statements and demands on journalists working for the SABC. Often referring to himself in the third person and making non sequitur statements.
Mort Crim
Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an author, marketing executive and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined WDIV-TV Detroit in 1978 and he retired from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997. He also anchored at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's "World News Tonight" newscast in 1978. In 1984, he hosted a technology program on PBS, "New Tech Times". Crim is also a founder of a Detroit area integrated marketing agency, "Mort Crim Communications, Inc." Crim is currently working for Majic Window Company in Wixom, Michigan, and has been featured in television commercials for that company.
Channing Dungey
Channing Nicole Dungey (born March 14, 1969) is an American television executive and producer who in 2016 became president of ABC Entertainment Group. As such, she became the first black American president of a major broadcast TV network.
ABC Family Worldwide
In March 2002, Angela Shapiro was named president of ABC Family Worldwide, after moving from president of Buena Vista Productions. She originally reported to ABC Broadcast Group president Steve Bornstein, who resigned in 2002. The post then reported directly to Disney president Bob Iger. In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide was amalgamated into the ABC Cable Networks Group, run by Anne Sweeney. Shapiro also left the network that month. Programming executive Linda Mancuso died in December 2003. In early 2004, ABC Family's original movie unit was taken over by Disney Channel's vice president of original programming and production Gary Marsh and vice president of original movies Michael Healy.
ABC Board
Current Board members are:
The board maintains an Advisory Council, which advises it on matters concerning the Corporation's programming. The Council is made up of twelve members, broadly representative of the Australian community, which serve staggered four-year terms. Vacancies are advertised in September–October each year. The Advisory Council's current Chair is Dr Jane Munro, Head of International House at the University of Melbourne.
Diane Macedo
Diane Reis Macedo (born February 28, 1982) is an American news personality. She is currently employed by ABC News where she serves as co-anchor of World News Now and America This Morning. She also frequently fills-in as the pop news anchor on the weekend version of Good Morning America. Before coming to ABC News, She was a weekend morning anchor for WCBS-TV in New York City. Macedo announced her departure from WCBS on March 6, 2016.
Disney–ABC Television Group
On , Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Sweeney being named president of ABC parent Disney–ABC, and ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Sweeney, as well as president of ABC Sports. This move added ABC TV Network within Disney-ABC. ABC1 channel initially launched in the United Kingdom on as the first use of the ABC brand outside the US. While ABC News Now was launched that year in the US on digital subchannel of 70 ABC owned & operated and affiliates.
ABC Me
ABC ME is operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation part of ABC Television. Overall strategic responsibility for all of the ABC's domestic services rests with the Director of Television, David N Anderson (since 2017). The direction of ABC ME itself rests with Michael Carrington the current Head of Children's and Education responsible for commissioning all ABC ME content across television, online, and iview.
Alexis Debat
Furthermore, two journalists at ABC have claimed that Debat's sensational articles were in fact supported by Brian Ross, ABC chief investigative correspondent. AP news agency has stated that ABC was now sending long time Ross producer Rhonda Schwartz to Pakistan to counter-check Debat's articles. "Rue 89", however, questions ABC News' decision to let the control of the investigation to Brian Ross, who was Alexis Debat's direct superior. This inquiry into Debat's work as a consultant cleared his reporting, according to ABC News President David Westin (see above).
The Mother Company
Founder and CEO Abbie Schiller, a public relations executive and former VP with ABC and Kiehl's partnered with Samantha Kurtzman-Counter (President), a director and producer, who has worked on programs for ABC, NBC, Vh1, MTV and the Disney Channel. The Mother Company launched on Mother's Day, 2010. Together, Schiller and Kurtzman-Counter are known as “mothers on a mission to redefine children’s entertainment." They have also been featured in print, TV and online media as entrepreneurs and parenting experts.
ABC News and Current Affairs
ABC News and Current Affairs is the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that controls content classified as news, public affairs and business and finance.
James T. Aubrey
On December 16, 1956, American Broadcasting Company president Oliver E. Treyz announced Aubrey would immediately become the network's head of programming and talent. ABC, the weakest of the three networks, was a perennial also-ran with a weak roster of affiliates and programs, something comparable to the early days of the Fox Network. Aubrey later said "at that time, there was no ABC. The headquarters was an old riding stable. But I went because [ABC chairman] Leonard Goldenson in effect said, 'Look, I don't know that much about TV, I'm a lawyer.' And he let me have autonomy."
ABC Radio (United States)
On August 7, 2014, ABC announced that it would relaunch its radio network division on January 1, 2015: the change occurred following the announcement that Cumulus would replace its ABC News radio service with Westwood One News (via CNN). ABC will continue to make its radio news programming (via ABC News Radio and its FM counterpart ABC News Now) available through the network, and will also expand to create new radio programming based on other ABC owned properties such as "Good Morning America", "Dancing With The Stars", and "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Skyview Networks will handle advertising sales and satellite distribution.
American Broadcasting Company
On January 12, 1966, ABC replaced "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" with "Batman", an action series based on the DC Comics series starring Adam West that was known for its kitschy style. In 1967, WLS radio CEO Ralph Beaudin was appointed as the president of ABC Radio. Under his leadership, ABC Radio was divided into four "networks" devoted to different types of programming: news, informative series, pop music, and talk shows. Two other networks were later created to provide rock music and traffic reporting.
ABC News Now (radio network)
ABC News Now is an Internet-delivered news radio that is currently owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Radio division. The network was previously distributed by Cumulus Media Networks (through Cumulus Media) and licensed the ABC branding from Disney (which produces the network's programming via its ABC News Radio unit) until the end of 2014 when Cumulus launched its own in-house news division from its newly acquired Westwood One radio network. "ABC News Now" draws a music audience between the ages of 25-54 with the latest news interlined into the individual affiliates' music playlist.
Robert Fadel
Fadel moved back to Beirut in 2003, and rejoined ABC. He was promoted to the role of general manager, and in August 2009, became the CEO of the ABC Group.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The broadcaster was critical of Abbott when he broke an election-eve promise not to make cuts to the ABC as part of his "Budget repair" program. In early 2015, an internal ABC review of its coverage of Joe Hockey's first Budget criticised the post-budget interviews by "7:30" and "Lateline", finding that the interviewers had given the impression of bias.When Abbott lost the leadership to the less conservative Turnbull in the September 2015 Liberal leadership spill, the hosts of the ABC's political programs spoke in favour of Abbott's demise. Kerry O'Brien and Barrie Cassidy, hosts respectively of the ABC's flagship weekly current affairs programs "Four Corners" and "Insiders", welcomed the replacement of Abbott by Turnbull, as did ABC radio commentators Fran Kelly Paul Bongiorno and Amanda Vanstone. Fairfax and News Limited reported that Leigh Sales, the host of "7.30" gave Turnbull an unusually warm first interview following his toppling of Abbott.When Turnbull lost the leadership after a conservative challenge in August 2018, the hosts of the ABC's political programs denounced the change. The 7pm News political correspondent Andrew Probyn, who had been censured by ACMA earlier in the year for biased reporting against Abbott, said the removal of Turnbull was about "vengeance pure and simple". Earlier in the year. "Insiders"' Barrie Cassidy called it "insanity and madness". "7:30" Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle was selected by Turnbull first among a handful of journalists to ask questions at his final press conference. She said "one of frustrations that voters have had with your prime ministership is the sense that you have conceded too regularly to the conservatives" Vanstone called the challenge "disgraceful".In a March 2016 interview with ABC Managing Director Mark Scott, "Media Watch" host Paul Barry examined the question of perceptions of left wing bias at the ABC. Scott noted that while perhaps the ABC was more concerned about gay marriage than about electricity prices, he did not accept the criticism of bias because "a lot of that criticism comes from right wing commentators and they wonder where are the strong right wing commentators on the ABC. We don't do that kind of journalism. We don't ask questions about our journalists' voting pattern and where their ideology are. We look at the journalism that they put to air and we have strong editorial standards..." Following the interview, conservative ABC critic Andrew Bolt wrote "How can the man heading our biggest media organisation be so blind to the ABC's unlawful and dangerous Leftist bias?" while former "Media Watch" host Jonathan Holmes wrote for "The Age" that this interview indicated that ABC management had failed to recognise a clear problem of left wing bias among some capital city radio presenters.
Q&amp;A (Australian talk show)
Following the incident, the ABC reported that it had been "roundly criticised for allowing Zaky Mallah... into the show's studio audience" and received over 1000 complaints. Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek described the decision to have Mallah on the show as "clearly an error of judgment." Prime Minister Tony Abbott condemned the broadcaster for "giving Mallah a platform," asking "Which side is the ABC on?" and saying that they had "betrayed" Australia. When the ABC repeated the program, he said that "heads should roll". He banned members of his Front Bench appearing on the program, later offering to permit them if the show was the ABC's Television section to News and Current Affairs. The ABC moved forward their plans to move the program, which an ABC source characterised as "the biggest example of editorial interference I've ever heard of".
The ABC released a statement apologising for including Mallah on a live event, and the ABC board appointed Shaun Brown and Ray Martin to audit "Q&A", and issued a formal warning to Q&A executive producer Peter McEvoy. Martin, a veteran journalist, said that some critics of the program needed "a good lie down." ABC director Mark Scott conceded the producers had erred putting Mallah on live television, but defended the independence of the ABC's editorial decisions and argued there is merit in platforming "views that run contrary to accepted public values" in order to "understand the root cause" of alarming actions.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
The following day, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce suggested the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) should take action against Abdel-Magied. The ABC argued that Abdel-Magied's personal opinions did not represent those of the national broadcaster. One month later, on 24 May 2017, the Saturday morning ABC News human interest television program that Abdel-Magied hosted, "Australia Wide", was cancelled as part of a sweeping restructure at the ABC. As well as programming changes, as many as two hundred jobs were reportedly being slashed in order to reinvest $50 million a year back into regional and online content.
Atlantis (newspaper)
James S. Vlasto's oldest son is ABC News, Emmy Award winning, Executive Producer Chris Vlasto and his youngest son is former Communications Director for Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, Joshua Vlasto
ABC Entertainment
ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by ABC.
American Broadcasting Company
Networks affiliates approved a two-year affiliate agreement in 2002. In September 2006, Disney Chairman/CEO Michael Eisner outlined a proposed realignment of the ABC broadcast network day parts with the similar unit in its cable channels: ABC Saturday mornings with Disney Channels (Toon & Playhouse), ABC daytime with Soapnet and ABC prime time with ABC Family. 2002 saw the debut of the network's first hit reality series, "The Bachelor" (the elimination-style dating show's success led to a spinoff, "The Bachelorette", which premiered the following year, as well as two additional spinoffs that later debuted in the early 2010s).
Patrick Ignozzi
Patrick Michael Ignozzi is an American television executive who is vice president of development and syndication for the ABC Daytime Media Group. He also serves as vice president of current programming for the programs ”The Chew” and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”.
Forrest Sawyer
Forrest Sawyer (born April 19, 1949) is an American broadcast journalist. Sawyer worked 11 years with ABC News, where he frequently anchored "ABC World News Tonight" and "Nightline" and reported for all ABC News broadcasts. He anchored the award-winning prime-time newsmagazines "Day One" and "Turning Point" He recorded exclusives from all over the globe, and earned numerous awards for his reports and documentaries, including Emmy Awards in 1992, 1993, and 1994. He left ABC News in 1999 to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart, MSNBC, where he was a regular substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for "The News with Brian Williams". He left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
Nizan Guanaes
He is a co-founder and partner of ABC Group, a holding company that comprises 18 companies with operations ranging from advertising and marketing to content and entertainment. ABC Group is the largest communications holding company in Latin America and the 18th largest communications group in the world, according to Advertising Age. 
Nizan was voted one of the five most influential Brazilians by Financial Times in 2010; one of the world’s 100 most creative people by Fast Company in 2011 and in 2014, Man of The Year, in Leadership’s category by GQ.
Channing Dungey
On November 16, 2018, Dungey departed from her role as President of the ABC Entertainment Group. Karey Burke, head of original programming for Disney's Freeform cable channel, took Dungey's position as head of ABC Entertainment. On December 17, 2018, it was reported that Netflix had hired Dungey as their new vice president of original content. Dungey will report to Cindy Holland, Netflix’s vice president of original content. Netflix said Dungey will work closely with fellow ABC alums Shonda Rhimes and Kenya Barris, as well as with other top Netflix talent.
Dungey has been married to Scott Power since 2003.
American Broadcasting Company
In 2004, ABC's average viewership declined by ten ratings points, landing the network in fourth place, behind NBC, CBS and Fox (by the following year, the combined season-ending average audience share of ABC, NBC and CBS represented only 32% of U.S. households). However, during the 2004–05 season, the network experienced unexpected success with new series such as "Desperate Housewives", "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" as well as reality series "Dancing with the Stars", which helped ABC rise to second place, jumping ahead of CBS, but behind a surging Fox. On April 21, 2004, Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Marvin Jacobs being named president of ABC parent Disney–ABC Television Group, and ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Jacobs, as well as president of ABC Sports. On December 7, 2005, ABC Sports and ESPN signed an eight-year broadcast rights agreement with NASCAR, allowing ABC and ESPN to broadcast 17 NASCAR Cup Series races each season (comprising just over half of the 36 races held annually) effective with the 2006 season.
Alex, Inc.
The series follows Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, husband, and father of two, who decides to quit his job and start his own company.
On August 29, 2016, it was announced that ABC had ordered "Start Up", a single-camera comedy television series, as a put pilot. Matt Tarses, Zach Braff, John Davis, John Fox, Chris Giliberti, Alex Blumberg, and Matt Lieber serve as executive producers. Zach Braff also serves as director. The series is a production of Davis Entertainment and is based off the podcast "StartUp". On January 25, 2017, it was announced that a pilot for the series was officially picked up. On May 11, 2017, it was announced that the series was officially picked up. The series is further a production of Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios. On May 16, 2017, it was announced that the series was renamed to "Alex, Inc." On January 8, 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere on March 28, 2018. On May 9, 2018, it was announced that the series was canceled after one season.
Andrew Probyn
In 2018, the ABC Board sacked the organisation's Managing Director Michelle Guthrie. It was later reported that Guthrie had received a series of complaints about the ABC's political coverage from Board Chairman Justin Milne. Amid government complaints about Probyn's reporting, Milne allegedly told Guthrie that keeping him as the public broadcaster's political editor was "putting the future of the ABC at risk". These claims raised questions of potential political interference by the Tunbull appointed Chairman, and Milne resigned his position, acknowledging there had been discussion of the "Probyn issue" but denying he had ever emailed Guthrie to sack journalists.
Eddy Groves
Edmund Stuart "Eddy" Groves (born 16 June 1966) is an Australian businessman, founder and former chief executive officer of ABC Learning, once one of Australia's largest companies and one of the world's biggest childcare providers prior to going into administration. In January 2013 Groves was declared bankrupt.
ABC Radio (Bangladesh)
The Head of Operations of ABC Radio is Ehsanul Huq Tito and the Head of Programs is Gazi Sharmeen Ahmed. The station stays on air for 24 hours at FM 89.2 MHz of frequency from Dhaka station. ABC launched its commercial operation on 7 January 2009.
Steve Bornstein
In 1999, Bornstein was named President of ABC, where he was responsible for all the media network and cable assets at ABC/Disney.
Oliver Treyz
The next year on February 17, 1958, Treyz filled in and took over the seat as president of ABC. That position had been filled by Leonard Goldenson, at the time, the president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, ABC's former parent company, who took over after the sudden departure of former network president James T. Aubrey.
5 (TV channel)
ABC acquired a new franchise to operate on December 9, 1994, under Republic Act 7831 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos. In the same year, it went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a surge of phenomenal growth, ABC earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The ABC now provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia and overseas through ABC Australia and Radio Australia. The ABC headquarters is in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
Yang Ji-won
Yang Ji-won (born 1949) is a professor in Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and CEO of ABC (Advanced Biomass R&D Center), which is a key research institutes for biofuel and bio-refinery in South Korea.
ABC Show
ABC Show was established on 6 November 2002 by Ivan Churilin, and since that time has experienced rapid growth. It includes the most awarded commercials and prints from the leading international advertising awards. All commercials and prints are translated into Russian, voiced by both male and female actors. Annually the show is opened by the representatives of international festivals in 2013 the show was opened by Philip Thomas, the chief executive officer of Cannes Liones.
Christianne Klein
Christianne Klein (born March 12) is an American television news anchor, journalist, lifestyle author, television personality, and former anchor and correspondent for ABC News. While at ABC, she operated in both New York, NY and Washington DC. In New York she anchored breaking news coverage for the network and contributed to ABC's network programs including Good Morning America.
Oscar Munoz (executive)
Oscar Munoz (born January 1959) is an American businessman. He was named president and chief executive officer (CEO) of United Airlines on September 8, 2015. At the time of this appointment, Munoz had been serving as a member of the board of directors of parent company United Continental Holdings (UCH) since its formation with the 2010 merger between United and Continental. Munoz had been a member of Continental's board of directors since 2004.
On August 29, 2016, in a newly created role, United announced Scott Kirby as its president, with Muñoz being solely the CEO of the airline.
Disney–ABC Television Group
ABC, Inc. doing business as the Disney–ABC Television Group (Disney–ABC), formerly known as Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and ABC Group, is a subsidiary holdings company that manages all of The Walt Disney Company's Disney- and ABC-branded television properties. The group includes the ABC Television Network (including ABC Daytime, ABC Entertainment, and ABC News divisions), as well as its 50% stake in A&E Television Networks and its 80% controlling stake in ESPN, Inc. While holding the controlling stake in ESPN, Disney–ABC and ESPN operate as separate units of Disney Media Networks. Post-Fox acquisition it will be renamed Walt Disney Television chaired by Peter Rice.
August Busch III
August Busch III served as President of the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (ABC) from 1974 until June 2002, and Chief Executive Officer of ABC from 1975 until June 2002. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABC from 1977 to 2006.
Craig Laundy
In January 2014, public broadcaster, the ABC received criticism from senior members of the Coalition government, including the Defence Minister, David Johnston and the Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who said that he feels that sometimes the ABC acts in a way that "instinctively takes everyone's side but Australia's." Laundy defended the ABC, responding that he does not defend their content, but their right to "say what they want." He said that "the beauty of living in a democracy is that if you don't like what you're hearing, what you're watching, or what you're looking at on the internet, choose another channel." He also said that it is not the role of the ABC to be patriotic.
Sheraton Kalouria
From August 1996 through May 2000, Mr. Kalouria held several positions at Walt Disney Corporation's ABC. He was initially named Director, Marketing, Kids and Family Programming where he managed the network's marketing and on-air promotions for Family, Children's, and Daytime programming. In 1998 Mr. Kalouria was named Vice President, Marketing & Promotion, ABC Daytime, overseeing the network's soaps and daytime talk. Mr. Kalouria led ABC's daytime marketing team and was responsible for the development of all on and off-air promotions, paid advertising as well as marketing for the network's daytime talk show, The View. Mr. Kalouria also spearheaded the redesign of ABC.com's daytime sections.
American Broadcasting Company
In August 1999, ABC premiered a special series event, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", a game show based on the British program of the same title. Hosted throughout its ABC tenure by Regis Philbin, the program became a major ratings success throughout its initial summer run, which led ABC to renew "Millionaire" as a regular series, returning on January 18, 2000. At its peak, the program aired as much as six nights a week. Buoyed by "Millionaire", during the 1999–2000 season, ABC became the first network to move from third to first place in the ratings during a single television season. "Millionaire" ended its run on the network's primetime lineup after three years in 2002, and in September of that year, Buena Vista Television relaunched the show as a syndicated program which throughout its run starred various hosts, of whom the first and longest-tenured, Meredith Vieira, became the first woman to win multiple Emmy Awards for hosting a game show.
American Broadcasting Company
In 1990, Thomas S. Murphy delegated his position as president to Daniel B. Burke while remaining ABC's chairman and CEO. Capital Cities/ABC reported revenues of $465 million. Now at a strong second place, the network entered the 1990s with additional family-friendly hits including "America's Funniest Home Videos" (which has gone on to become the longest-running prime time entertainment program in the network's history), "Step by Step", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "Boy Meets World" and "Perfect Strangers" spinoff "Family Matters", as well as series such as "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Life Goes On", cult favorite "Twin Peaks" and "The Commish". In September 1991, the network premiered "Home Improvement", a sitcom starring stand-up comic Tim Allen centering on the family and work life of an accident-prone host of a cable-access home improvement show. Lasting eight seasons, its success led ABC to greenlight additional sitcom projects helmed by comedians during the 1990s including "The Drew Carey Show"; Brett Butler vehicle "Grace Under Fire"; and "Ellen", which became notable for a 1997 episode which served as the coming out of series star Ellen DeGeneres (as well as her character in the series) as a lesbian.
Michael Ebeid
Ebeid became the Executive Director of Corporate Strategy and Marketing at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) holding position until 2011 when he became CEO of SBS in 2011.
Juan Mora (entrepreneur)
Mora envisioned creating a foundation that would undertake engagement with leaders in their communities. With support from Emilio Azcárraga, Chairman and CEO of Grupo Televisa, Mora co-founded the Americas Business Council (ABC) Foundation, an organization that identifies young leaders (ABC Fellows), giving them a networking hub and creating opportunities for them to meet with established leaders from their fields. In its initial two years, the foundation has brought together an eclectic group of young leaders from all over the Americas, including Cesar Conde, the current President of Univision Networks, and Felipe Kast, the current Secretary of Social Development in Chile. The ABC Fellows Program has given these young innovators the opportunity to meet Nobel Peace prize winners such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Vice President Al Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev and Mary Robinson; heads of state including Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos; environmentalists such as Sylvia Earle and Jean-Michel Cousteau; and social entrepreneurs and philanthropists like Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Larry Brilliant.
Masahiro Miki
Masahiro Miki (; born July 26, 1955) is a Japanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and largest shareholder of Tokyo-based shoemaker ABC-Mart. Miki is of Korean descent.
ABC (Australian TV channel)
ABC (formerly known as The ABC National Television Service or ABC-TV from 1956 until 2008, and as ABC1 from 2008 until 2014) is a national public television network in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it is the responsibility of the ABC's television division, and is available nationally. ABC head office is based in the inner-city suburb of Sydney, Ultimo.
Nizan Guanaes
ABC Group was founded by Nizan Guanaes and Guga Valente in March, 2002. The holding company comprises 18 companies such as Africa, DM9DDB, DM9 Rio, DM9 Sul, Escala, Loducca, Morya, Música Comunicação e Marketing, Pereira & O’Dell, b!ferraz, Interbrand, NewStyle, Rocker Heads, Sunset, Agência Tudo and CDN.
Robin Roberts (newscaster)
Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America".
Michelle Guthrie
In December 2015, it was announced that Guthrie would become managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), replacing Mark Scott who retired in April 2016. Guthrie assumed the ABC position on 2 May 2016. She has been criticised for her lack of understanding of public broadcasting and journalism.
ABC Board
In September 2018, there was criticism raised by Labor's Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland about ABC's "independence and integrity of Australia's most trusted news organisation risk having been compromised" following discussions within the ABC board about an email instruction from Justin Milne to Michelle Guthrie in May 2018 to sack senior presenter Emma Alberici, on the basis that what was reported by Alberici did not agree with the government.
On 24 September 2018, Justin Milne announced to ABC staff that Managing Director Michelle Guthrie was sacked following discussions with the ABC executive and directors. Milne then announced his resignation on 27 September. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has directly appointed a majority of the current members of the board, some of whom were rejected by the nomination panel.
Russell Balding
Russell Stephen Balding (born 7 January 1952) is an Australian company director, who was managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 2002 to 2006.
American Broadcasting Company
However, a problem emerged regarding the directions taken by ABC and UPT. In 1950, Noble appointed Robert Kintner to be ABC's president while he himself served as its CEO, a position he would hold until his death in 1958. Despite the promise of non-interference between ABC and UPT, Goldenson had to intervene in ABC's decisions because of financial problems and the FCC's long period of indecision. Goldenson added to the confusion when, in October 1954, he proposed a merger between UPT and the DuMont Television Network, which was also mired in financial trouble. As part of this merger, the network would have been renamed "ABC-DuMont" for five years, and DuMont would have received $5 million in cash, room on the schedule for existing DuMont programming, and guaranteed advertising time for DuMont Laboratories receivers. In addition, to comply with FCC ownership restrictions, it would have been required to sell either WABC-TV or DuMont owned-and-operated station WABD in the New York City market, as well as two other stations. The merged ABC-DuMont would have had the resources to compete with CBS and NBC.
Michelle Guthrie
On 24 September 2018, ABC Chair Justin Milne announced that Guthrie had been sacked from the role of managing director of the ABC after the board of directors had concluded it was not in the best interests of the organisation for her to continue. Guthrie is taking legal action against the ABC for unfair dismissal.
Freeform (TV channel)
In a December 3, 2014, article, "Variety" reported that ABC Family executives were proposing a relaunch of the network that would occur as early as 2015, including the expansion of programming appealing more toward young adults between the ages of 14 and 34 (millennials) as opposed to families or teenagers, as well as adopting new branding (including a new name), among the options being considered. During the channel's 2015–16 upfront presentation on April 14, 2015, ABC Family executives announced that it would establish a focus on "becomers," a group termed by network representatives to refer to what are normally identified as "millennials". ABC Family president Tom Ascheim explained in describing this demographic, "The most important question that young people ask themselves as they're going from high school to their thirties is, 'Who am I becoming?' So we call the life stage 'becoming' and the people going through it Becomers".
Danildo Accioly
ABC
BBC America
After CEO Paul Lee was appointed president of ABC Family in 2009, the network appointed Bill Hilary from Comedy Central to serve as its chief executive officer. Hilary appointed Kathryn Mitchell to the new position of general manager. Under Hilary's tenure, BBC America was restructured; it moved its main offices to New York City and had its programming budget increase substantially. The channel was led by Garth Ancier, who served as the president of BBC Worldwide Americas from February 2007 until 2010, when he was succeeded by former MTV Networks executive Herb Scannell. Meanwhile, Perry Simon serves as general manager.