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The?American?Broadcasting?Company?(ABC) is an?American?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. It first broadcast on television in 1948. Corporate headquarters are in?Manhattan?in?New?York City,while programming offices are in?Burbank,?California?adjacent to the?Walt Disney Studios?and the?Walt Disney?Company?corporate headquarters. ABC is the mostwatched television network in the United States as of 2008. The current slogan is Start Here, except television idents continue to use the former Americas?Broadcasting?Company slogan. Before the AmericasBroadcasting?Company slogan, television idents used the full corporate name from 1997-2000. The formal name of the operation is?American?Broadcasting?Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright notices for its in-house network productions and on all official documents of the?company, including paychecks and contracts. A separate entity named?ABC Inc., formerly Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is that firms direct parent?company, and that?company?is owned in turn by Disney. The network is sometimes referred to as the?Alphabet Network, due to the letters ABC being the first three Latin letters. History Creating ABC From the?organization of the first true radio networks in the late 1920s,?broadcasting?in the United States?was dominated by two companies,?CBS?and?RCAs?NBC. Before NBCs 1926 formation, RCA had acquired?ATTs?New?York?station?WEAF?(later?WNBC, now?CBS-owned?WFAN).?With?WEAF came a loosely?organized system feeding programming to other stations in the northeastern U.S. RCA, before the acquisition of the?WEAF group in mid-1926, had previously owned a second such group,?withWJZ in New?York as the lead station (purchased by RCA in 1923 from?Westinghouse) . These?were the foundations of RCAs two distinct programming services, the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks. Legend has it that the color designations o