The
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, Calif ...
(ABC) is an American
broadcast
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...
television network
A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers. Until the mid ...
that originated in 1927 as the
NBC Blue radio network
There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many ( simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio ( duplex communication) t ...
, and five years after its 1942 divorce from
NBC and purchase by
Edward J. Noble
Edward John Noble (August 8, 1882 – December 28, 1958) was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York. He co-founded the Life Savers Corporation in 1913. He founded the American Broadcasting Company w ...
(adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948. Throughout its history, the network has many
owned-and-operated and
affiliated stations.
This article is a table listing of former ABC stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's
city of license
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In North American b ...
as well as its
Designated Market Area
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also incl ...
; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former ABC-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current ABC affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their
virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the ''program number'' as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver's ...
(
PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
Former affiliate stations
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
See also
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List of ABC television affiliates (table)
The ABC Television Network is an American television network. The network currently has eight owned-and-operated stations and current affiliation agreements with 236 other television stations. This is a table listing of ABC's affiliates, with ABC ...
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List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
References
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