He also has hired a cadre of seasoned Hollywood types, including former ABC network boss Lloyd Braun.
In the "NYPD Blue" case, the agency fined 45 ABC network-owned or affiliated stations that aired the episode.
The actor's other recent television attempt, last season's short-lived Carpoolers, failed to garner viewers for the Walt Disney-owned ABC Network.
The company offset some of those problems with an advertising upturn at its ABC network and higher spending at its theme parks.
The deal can potentially increase ABC network licensing revenue growth as well as implied fee per subscriber for Disney Channel and ABC Family.
Correspondents say NBC executives were concerned a rival late-night show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC network would make gains among the crucial younger audience if Fallon's move did not happen quickly.
Apple had an enviable accomplice: Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people ), which became the first studio to sign up, offering episodes of its ABC network hits Lost and Desperate Housewives, and a few other entries.
In fact, its media network that includes the ABC television network and the sports cable channel ESPN account for 46% of revenues and 67% of earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization.
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Disney is a wildly diverse company with theme parks, movie studios, cruise ships, consumer products and the ABC TV network.
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So does the legendary Roone Arledge, a crossover genius who first reinvented sports and then news for the ABC television network.
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Guitar band Coldplay could also find success in the US. Their UK hit Yellow has been adopted as a theme by the ABC TV network, giving them huge exposure.
But mostly he was a pro who hit his mark every day, and it says something about his gifts that since he died in 2009, the ABC radio network has appointed a number of successors, but Harvey never really was replaced.
In an interview with the US television network ABC, he said there were limits to what the military could do.
American network ABC plans to air the movie on Easter Sunday.
Col Gaddafi gave an interview in the capital Tripoli for BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, US TV network ABC and the UK's Sunday Times newspaper.
An e-mail sent by the president to himself contains talking points for an interview he gave to Barbara Walters on the U.S. TV network ABC in early December.
General Electric unit NBC Universal, News Corp. studio Fox, Disney network ABC and CBS sued Cablevision, claiming its proposed new DVR system would allow users to violate the studio's copyrights by making digital copies.
In his six years at sister cable network ABC Family, Lee, 50, delivered ratings growth every year and has proven a knack for luring younger female viewers, a particularly desirable demographic for deep-pocketed advertisers.
This all-sports cable sister to broadcast network ABC (and majority owned by The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people )) brought a level of sophistication to coverage of the season's secondary bowl games--it aired 20 of them--that has rescued them from the amateur-hour coverage of old (remember the "MizLou" telecasts?).
Disney and other big media companies plan to launch the ABC In-Store Network next year.
His credits include the short-lived but ambitious sci-fi thriller "FlashForward, " which prematurely fell prey to meddling by its network, ABC.
For instance, those going to the Nickelodeon channel slot will see alternative choices for children's programming such as The Disney Channel, ABC Family, Cartoon Network, PBS Sprout, The Hub and Boomerang.
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To fight back, last October ABC became the first network to sell downloadable television shows on iTunes, though it's still unclear whether viewers will want to watch the shows 24-7 on such small screens.
The dispute between the broadcast network and the cable distributor arose as the two sought to negotiate a new fee structure to be paid by Time Warner to ABC for rights to transmit the network's programs -- and those of Disney-ABC's other television properties -- over its various cable systems.
Rather than feature just four new shows, as the last-place peacock network did, ABC rolled out 11, complete with mashed-up clips (OK, that part could have been a little much).
The Young and the Restless (owned by Sony and airing on CBS) celebrated 40 years on the air March 26th, and General Hospital (owned by ABC and airing on the network) celebrates its 50 years on TV April 1st.
We know that as a network executive, ABC's President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw has a vested interest in the survival of the traditional 30-second commercial, but his recent assertion that consumers don't really care about the ad-skipping functionality of their DVRs strikes us as being way off the mark.
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Still worse: ABC, which includes the broadcast network and its local stations, saw its operating income plunge 34%, a reflection of both higher programming costs and a soft ad market.
Quarterlife, a drama about a group of recent graduates in Chicago, started as a pilot for ABC in 2005, but the network declined to make a full series, so creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick took it to MySpace, where it launched this month.
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