ABC News

File:ABCNewsLogo.png ABC News headquarters on West 66th Street in New York City, New York (November 2008)
Division of:	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Key people:	Anne Sweeney President & Co-Chair Disney-ABC Television Group Ben Sherwood, President of ABC News Diane Sawyer and David Muir, Lead Co-Anchor's
Founded:	June 15, 1945
Headquarters:	New York City, United States
Studios:	ABC News Headquarters, New York City Times Square Studios, New York City Newseum, Washington, D.C. ABC-owned stations across the United States
Area served:	Worldwide
Broadcast programs:	20/20 ABC News Brief America This Morning Good Morning America Good Morning America Weekend Edition Nightline Primetime This Week World News Now World News with David Muir World News with Diane Sawyer
Parent:	The Walt Disney Company
Slogan:	See the Whole Picture
Website:	ABCnews.com
Web Portal:	go.com

ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Its flagship program is World News with Diane Sawyer; other programs include morning show Good Morning America, Nightline, television news magazine shows Primetime & 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

History[link]

Early years[link]

This section reads like a news release and needs to be rewritten.

ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent existence as a radio network after the Federal Communications Commission ordered the former NBC Blue Network to be spun off as an independent company in 1943. This was done to keep single or a few companies such as NBC and CBS from dominating radio broadcasting in the U.S., and in particular, from dominating news and political broadcasting and projecting narrow points-of-view. Television broadcasting was suspended however, during World War II.

Regular ABC television news broadcasts began soon after ABC started transmitting from its initial New York City television station and production center in late summer 1948. ABC-TV news broadcasts have continued as the ABC television network spread across the country, a process that took many years, from that beginning in 1948 through today, but they have not always had the same level of success that they enjoy now. Throughout the 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s, ABC News consistently ranked third in viewership behind CBS News and NBC News. Until the 1970s, the ABC-TV network had fewer affiliate stations, and also weaker prime-time programming lineups to support the network's news departments than the two larger networks had, each of which had established their radio news operations during the 1930s.

Under Roone Arledge[link]

Only after Roone Arledge, the head of ABC Sports at that time, became the president of ABC News in 1977, at a time when this network's prime-time entertainment programs were achieving good ratings and drawing in advertising revenues and profits to the ABC corporation overall, was ABC able to invest the resources to make it a major source of news telecasting. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast "model", created many of ABC News's most popular and enduring programs, including 20/20, ABC World News, This Week, Nightline, and Primetime Live.

ABC News gained respect in the early 1980s by covering the Iran hostage crisis and, later, for covering the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area with live telecasts.

The ABC News slogan, "More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source", is a claim that refers to the number of people who watch, listen, and read ABC News programming on television, the radio, and the Internet, and not necessarily to the telecasts alone.^[1]

Association with ESPN[link]

ESPN, a sports-news organization with several cable and satellite television channels — and also owned by Disney — provides sports bulletins and video for some of ABC News's programs, especially the overnight programs.

Job layoffs[link]

In February 2010, ABC News announced it would lay off hundreds of staff members or up to 25% of its total work force and close all news bureaus outside of its headquarters in Washington and New York, including bureaus in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.^[2]

In the wake of the job cuts, a significant controversy erupted online in May 2010 after it was announced the former VP of news coverage, Mimi Gurbst, was leaving the network to become a guidance counselor.^[3] A human interest story in the New York Observer reported that Gurbst was a "cherished" mentor inside the news division.^[4] Reporters who closely follow TV news observed that a large number of current and former ABC News staffers went online to vigorously respond that Gurbst had helped perpetuate a negative culture with ABC News.^[5][6]

International broadcasts[link]

ABC News programming is shown daily on the 24-hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes several shows from ABC News. 'Orbit News is network of three 24-hour satellite and cable channels offering exclusively American news programming from ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC to U.S. expats and other viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries. The network is available on digital satellite and cable in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, however, cable operators in Europe are currently unable to carry the channels due to unsolved rights issues.

It is also available online at ABC News Now.

In the United Kingdom, ABC World News appears regularly at 1:30 a.m. local time on the BBC News Channel, which itself may be simulcast on BBC One or BBC Two during the overnight period. No commercials are presented because the BBC's services in the U.K. are financed through license fees. ABC and the BBC also share video segments and reporters as needed in producing their newscasts.

In Australia, ABC World News is broadcast at 10:30 a.m. daily and Nightline is telecast at 1:30 a.m. daily on Sky News Australia. This can be confusing in Australia, where "ABC News" means the news broadcasts of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Also, Primetime is broadcast at 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays (extended edition) and at 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays. 20/20 is broadcast at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays (extended edition) and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.

In New Zealand, ABC World News is broadcast daily at 5:10 p.m. and at again at 11:35 p.m. Just as with the BBC in the U.K., these are shown commercial-free on Television New Zealand's TVNZ 7 channel.

Other forms of broadcasting[link]

ABC News Radio, a service syndicated by Cumulus Media Networks, broadcasts newscasts on the hour, live feeds and specialty news, sports and entertainment programming to approximately 2,000 radio affiliates nationwide. As part of Disney's sale of the ABC Radio division to Citadel Broadcasting in 2007, ABC News entered into an exclusive agreement with Citadel to distribute its radio news service on terrestrial stations (Citadel has since merged with Cumulus Media).

ABC NewsOne is ABC News's affiliate news service. It gathers and feeds regional, national and international news material to ABC affiliates around the country and foreign networks.

ABC News Now is the ABC's 24-hour news channel available online and other sources such as mobile phones.

A thirty-second ABC News Brief is broadcast weekdays at 2:58 p.m. ET following The Revolution, before the start of General Hospital (though these newsbriefs are not aired on all ABC stations).

A news brief containing information relevant to college students is shown every hour on mtvU, and ABC News segments are packaged or customized for broadcast over Wal-Mart's in-store television network.

Slogans[link]

• See the Whole Picture."

• More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source.

It means that more Americans get their news from the combined sources of ABC News — television, radio and internet — than from any other news provider.

• From the global resources of ABC News this is:
  • Nightline (since 2005)
  • World News with Diane Sawyer (2009–2010)

• "From ABC News, Live in Times Square," this is:
  • "Good Morning America" (Since 2009 on weekdays. They used New York on Weekends rather than just Times Square. Starting on March, They started using the date on weekdays)

• "From ABC News"
  • "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" (March 2010-May 2010, August 2010–Present)
  • "ABC World News" (March 2010-May 2010)

• "From ABC News Headquarters" this is:
  • ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (May 2010-August 2010)
  • "ABC World News" (May 2010–present)

Former notable personnel[link]

Adrian Dantley

No. 44, 4, 45, 7
Forward / Guard
Personal information
Born	(1956-02-28) February 28, 1956 (age 56) Washington, D.C., USA
High school	DeMatha Catholic (Hyattsville, Maryland)
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	208 lb (94 kg)
Career information
College	Notre Dame (1973–1976)
NBA Draft	1976 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall
Selected by the Buffalo Braves
Pro career	1976–1991
Career history
1976–1977	Buffalo Braves
1977	Indiana Pacers
1977–1979	Los Angeles Lakers
1979–1986	Utah Jazz
1986–1989	Detroit Pistons
1989–1990	Dallas Mavericks
1990–1991	Milwaukee Bucks
Career highlights and awards
6× NBA All-Star (1980–1982, 1984–1986) NBA Rookie of the Year (1977) 2× All-NBA Second Team (1981, 1984) 2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1975–1976) Oscar Robertson Trophy (1976) 2× NBA scoring champion (1981, 1984) #4 Retired by the Utah Jazz
Career statistics
Points	23,177 (24.3 ppg)
Rebounds	5,455 (5.7 rpg)
Assists	2,830 (3.0 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
Medals Men's basketball Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games Gold 1976 Montreal Team competition

Adrian Delano Dantley (born February 28, 1956 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American basketball player who played 15 seasons in the NBA, including seven as a member of the Utah Jazz. A forward/guard and six-time NBA All-Star, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, he was appointed acting head coach of the Denver Nuggets in the absence of stricken head coach George Karl.

Playing career[link]

College[link]

Dantley attended basketball powerhouse DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland where he played under legendary basketball coach Morgan Wootten.

Dantley was a forward at Notre Dame from 1973-76. He was a consensus first team All-American in 1974-75 and 1975–76 and was named 1976 National Player of the Year. He ranks second on the Notre Dame career scoring list with 2,223 points and holds the school record for free throws made (615) and free throws attempted (769).

Dantley had a stellar collegiate career for the Fighting Irish. As a freshman, he played an important role in one of the biggest games in college basketball history, Notre Dame's stunning 1974 upset to end UCLA's record 88-game winning streak. That UCLA team, coached by the legendary John Wooden, featured Bill Walton, Jamaal Wilkes (then known as Keith Wilkes), and Dave Meyer.

Dantley led Notre Dame in scoring in 1974-75 (30.4 points per game) and 1975–76 (28.6 points per game), while also leading the team in rebounding those two seasons with marks of 10.2 and 10.1 rebounds per game, respectively. He was also the leading scorer on the 1976 US Olympic team that captured the gold medal in Montreal.

NBA[link]

In the 1976 NBA draft Dantley was drafted sixth overall by the Buffalo Braves. He became the third Buffalo player in five years to receive the NBA Rookie of the Year Award when he won it after the 1977 season. Dantley bounced around the league after his rookie campaign. Buffalo traded Dantley to the Indiana Pacers before the 1977-78 NBA season season, making him the first Rookie of the Year in any professional sport to be traded following his rookie season.^{[citation needed]} Indiana traded him after 23 games to the Los Angeles Lakers. He stayed with the Lakers through the following season before being traded again, this time to the Utah Jazz. It was the third time in two years that he had been traded; the Jazz were his fourth team in as many years in the league.

In Utah, Dantley reached his peak establishing his reputation as a prolific scorer, twice leading the league in scoring (in 1981 and 1984). He averaged over 30 points per game each season between 1981 and 1984, though he missed 60 games in 1983 after tearing ligaments in his right wrist. In his seven years with the Jazz, Dantley picked up all six of his All-Star appearances and two All-NBA second-team honors.

Utah traded Dantley to the Detroit Pistons after the 1986 season. Dantley was still an effective scorer but did not get as many shots with Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson and Bill Laimbeer all averaging at least 10 points per game. Midway through the 1989 season Detroit traded Dantley to the Dallas Mavericks for Mark Aguirre. Dantley played two more seasons in the NBA before retiring after a 10-game stint with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1991.

Dantley finished his career with an average of 24.3 points per game. He scored his points with a mix of flat-footed mid-range jump shots, high-percentage opportunities close to the basket, and frequent trips to the free throw line. For his career, he shot .540 from the floor — 16th in NBA history — and .818 from the free throw line. He led the league in free throws six times and ranks sixth all-time in that category. He shares the record with Wilt Chamberlain for most free throws made in a regular-season NBA game with 28.

Utah retired Dantley's uniform number (#4) on April 11, 2007.

Dantley enjoyed outstanding success at every level of basketball, including high school, college, Olympics, NBA, and on April 7, 2008, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, 16 years after he retired.

Coaching[link]

Dantley later worked for the Denver Nuggets as an assistant coach for eight seasons. He briefly served as the team's head coach during the 2009-10 season, filling in for George Karl, who was fighting cancer.^[1]

Personal[link]

His son Cameron Dantley was the starting quarterback for the Syracuse Orange during the 2008 season.

See also[link]

Biography portal

• List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career turnovers leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career free throw scoring leaders
• List of individual National Basketball Association scoring leaders by season

References[link]

External links[link]

• NBA.com bio
• nba.com historical playerfile
• Basketball-Reference.com: Adrian Dantley
• 1976 Oscar Robertson Trophy USBWA College Player of the Year
• UltimateNBA.com Playerfile: Adrian Dantley

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