{"id":23845,"date":"2014-10-23T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2016-10-26T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:48:05","slug":"the-start-of-the-abc-television-network-a-short-primer-since-a-lot-of-us-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23845","title":{"rendered":"The Start Of The ABC Television Network&#8230;A Short Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Of The ABC Television Network&#8230;A Short Primer  <\/p>\n<p>Since a lot of us are a bit rusty on ABC&#8217;s television roots, here&#8217;s a thumbnail sketch. By the way, the photo is of Bob King&#8230;the first cameraman hired at ABC Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p>On April 19, 1948, the ABC Television Network began its broadcasts on its first primary affiliate, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. In August 1948, the network&#8217;s flagship owned-and-operated station, WJZ-TV in New York City, began its broadcasts. That first NYC broadcast ran for two hours in the evening of August 10, 1948. ABC&#8217;s other owned-and-operated stations launched over the course of the next 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>WENR-TV in Chicago launched on September 17, 1948, while WXYZ-TV in Detroit went on the air October 9, 1948. KGO-TV in San Francisco went on the air May 5, 1949. <\/p>\n<p>On May 7, 1949, Billboard revealed that ABC would spend $2.5 million to convert the old Vitagraph\/Warner East Annex in Hollywood into The Prospect Studios, and construct a transmitter on Mount Wilson in anticipation of the launch of KECA-TV, which went on the air on September 16, 1949. The rest as they say, is history. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/745124185525133\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Start-Of-The-ABC-Television-Network...A-Short-Primer-Since-a-lot-of-us-ar\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/745132115524340\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Of The ABC Television Network&#8230;A Short Primer Since a lot of us are a bit rusty on ABC&#8217;s television roots, here&#8217;s a thumbnail sketch. By the way, the photo is of Bob King&#8230;the first cameraman hired at ABC Hollywood. On April 19, 1948, the ABC Television Network began its broadcasts on its first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,724,787,725,806],"class_list":["post-23845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast","tag-net","tag-star","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}