ABC Begins Its Own Network Television Service
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Arts, Popular Culture
- Subcategories: Entertainment, Entertainers, Business, Trade, Commerce, Television, Radio, Broadcasting
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: New York City, Hollywood
- Date: 1948
Article abstract: Leonard Harry Goldenson created one of the “Big Three” television networks by raising cash from the sale of theaters; a deal with Walt Disney secured a future for ABC-TV.
Summary of Event
ABC-TV is the youngest of the three early surviving over-the-air television networks, and for much of its history it was the weakest. It was begun not by creative entrepreneurship but by government order. The first government-forced action took place in 1943, when the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was ordered to give up one of its two radio...
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