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ident, circa 2006]] ABC News is a division of American Television and Radio network ABC , owned by The Walt Disney Company . Its current president is David Westin . CURRENT PROGRAMS
'' ABC News Radio '' distributes, through ABC Radio Networks , newscasts on the hour, live feeds and specialty news programming to some 2,000 local affiliates. '' 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 24/7 news channel available online and other sources such as mobile phones. A 30 second "ABC News Brief" is broadcast weekdays at 2:58pm ET, between One Life To Live and General Hospital . 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. Specials
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CURRENT AND PAST PERSONALITIES INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS 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. It's also available online at ABC News Now. The ABC News program entitled ABC's World News appears regularly at 1.30am on the BBC News 24 channel in the UK . HISTORY Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, ABC News wasn't a major news player compared to CBS News and NBC News . It wasn't until Roone Arledge became the President of ABC News that network finally became a major player in news. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast "model," created many of ABC News' most popular and enduring programs, including '' 20/20 '', '' World News Tonight '', '' 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/San Francisco earthquake live. Arledge turned ABC News into a broadcasting titan, regularly defeating rivals NBC and CBS. ABC would remain dominant for over two decades. In popular culture
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