American Broadcasting Company Timeline of Events

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

Timeline of Events

1953

4.29.1953

The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

1955

10.3.1955

The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.

1957

8.5.1957

''American Bandstand'', a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

1978

7.10.1978

''World News Tonight'' premieres on ABC.