, '''''"ABC7"''''' is an . The station's signals are also available via
Cable Television systems located within the Los Angeles
Media Market . KABC-TV's
Standard Definition Format (SDI) and
High Definition Video Format (HDTV) signals are available nationwide on
Satellite signals to qualified
Dish Network and
DirecTV subscribers with distant market waivers.
KABC-TV went on the air as KECA-TV on
September 16 ,
1949 . It was one of the four original ABC owned and operated stations along with
WABC-TV New York ,
KGO-TV San Francisco and
WXYZ-TV Detroit .
On
February 1 ,
1954 KECA changed its'
Call Letters to the present KABC-TV.
From the time of its initial sign-on as KECA in
1949 until
2000 , KABC-TV was located at the
ABC Television Center (now branded as
The Prospect Studios ), located in the
Los Feliz /
Silver Lake neighborhoods of Los Angeles, east of
Hollywood . In
December 2000 KABC-TV abandoned its longtime
Hollywood studios to moved to a new state of the art facility in nearby
Glendale , a short distance from ABC and
Walt Disney Company headquarters at
Walt Disney Studios in
Burbank, California .
KABC has used the famous
"Circle 7" Logo for many years, and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in
1997 .
