ABC News

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This article is about the American news organization. See also ABC News (disambiguation)

ABC News is a division of ABC television and radio networks (ABC), owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. ABC News is the news unit of the American Broadcasting Company. Its slogan is: "More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source."

Contents 1 Current programs 1.1 Specials 1.2 ABCNews.com 2 Current Anchors 3 Current and past personalities 4 International broadcasts 5 History 5.1 In popular culture 6 See also 7 External links

Current programs

• America This Morning
• Good Morning America
• Good Morning America Weekend Edition
• This Week with George Stephanopoulos
• ABC World News with Charles Gibson
• ABC World News Saturday & Sunday
• 20/20
• Primetime
• Nightline
• ABC World News Now

ABC News Radio runs, through ABC Radio Networks, news bulletins on the hour transmitted to its affiliate stations and distributes talk programs.

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 one-minute "ABC News Brief" is broadcast weekdays at 2:58pm between One Life to Live and General Hospital.

A news brief containing information relevant to college students is shown every hour on MtvU.

Specials

• ABC 2000 Today
• Peter Jennings Reporting
• The Century
• Give Me a Break (20/20 spinoff)

ABCNews.com

• The Note

Current Anchors

• Diane Sawyer
• Robin Roberts
• Bill Weir
• Kate Snow
• George Stephanopoulos
• Charles Gibson
• Dan Harris
• Cynthia McFadden
• John Quiñones
• Chris Cuomo
• Elizabeth Vargas
• John Stossel
• Terry Moran
• Martin Bashir
• Taina Hernandez
• Sam Champion
• David Muir

Current and past personalities

Jim Avila Mike Barz Martin Bashir Willow Bay Glenn Beck Jules Bergman David Brinkley Aaron Brown Chris Bury Marysol Castro Sam Champion Liz Cho Ron Claiborne Spencer Christian Ann Compton Amanda Congdon Anderson Cooper Nancy Cordes (née Weiner) Ron Corning Catherine Crier Christopher Cuomo Don Dahler Sam Donaldson John Donvan Linda Douglass Hugh Downs Barry Dunsmore Jack Ford Charles Gibson Dan Harris Mark Halperin David Hartman John Hockenberry Brit Hume

Bob Jamieson Tom Jarriel Peter Jennings Timothy Johnson Jackie Judd Jonathan Karl Ken Kashiwahara Royal Kennedy Jim Kincaid Christianne Klein Jeffrey Kofman Ted Koppel Robert Krulwich Peter Lance Joan Lunden Catherine "Cassie" Mackin Dave Marash Liz Marlantes Laura Marquez Cynthia McFadden Lisa McRee John McWethy John Miller Antonio Mora Terry Moran David Muir Judy Muller Kevin Newman Bill O'Reilly Tony Perkins John Quiñones Martha Raddatz Harry Reasoner Bill Redeker Dean Reynolds Frank Reynolds

Bill Ritter Cokie Roberts Deborah Roberts Robin Roberts Max Robinson Judd Rose Brian Ross Barry Sarafin Diane Sawyer Forrest Sawyer Tom Schell Jim Sciutto Gary Shepard Lynn Sherr Claire Shipman Carole Simpson Howard K. Smith Kate Snow Betsy Stark Lisa Stark George Stephanopoulos John Stossel Kathleen Sullivan Jake Tapper Fred Thompson Elizabeth Vargas Barbara Walters Peggy Wehmeyer Bill Weir George Will Buck Wolf Bob Woodruff jim Wooten David Wright Jessica Yellin Fareed Zakaria

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.

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 1980's 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.

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.

See also

• ABC
• CBS News
• NBC News
• CNN
• FOX News

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