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==Programming==
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The ABC television network currently provides an average of 89 hours of network programming each week. It also offers 22 hours of prime-time programming to affiliated stations from 8:00&nbsp;p.m. to 11:00&nbsp;p.m. Monday through Saturday (Eastern and Pacific Time) and 7:00&nbsp;p.m. to 11:00&nbsp;p.m. on Sundays.

Daytime programming is also provided from 11:00&nbsp;a.m. to 3:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern and Pacific weekdays (subtract 1 hour for all other time zones) (with a one-hour break at 12:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern/Pacific for stations to air newscasts, locally produced programming or syndicated programs) featuring the talk-lifestyle shows ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]'' and ''[[GMA3: What You Need to Know]]'', and the soap opera ''[[General Hospital]]''. In addition, ABC News programming includes ''[[Good Morning America]]'' from 7:00&nbsp;a.m. to 9:00&nbsp;a.m. weekdays and Saturdays (along with one-hour Sunday editions), nightly editions of ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' (whose weekend editions are occasionally subject to abbreviation or preemption due to sports telecasts overrunning into the program's timeslot), the [[Sunday morning talk shows|Sunday political talk show]] ''[[This Week (American TV program)|This Week]]'', early morning news programs ''[[World News Now]]'' and ''[[America This Morning]]'' and the late-night newsmagazine ''[[Nightline]]''. Late nights feature the weeknight talk show ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]''.

The network's three-hour Weekend morning children's programming timeslot is programmed by syndication distributor [[Litton Entertainment]], which produces ''[[Litton's Weekend Adventure]]'' under an arrangement in which the [[block programming|programming block]] is syndicated exclusively to ABC owned-and-operated and affiliated stations, rather than being leased out directly by the network to Litton.

===Daytime===
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ABC's daytime schedule currently features the talk show ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]'', news show ''[[GMA3]]'', and the soap opera ''[[General Hospital]]''. Originally premiering in 1963, ''General Hospital'' is ABC's longest-running entertainment program.

In addition to the long-running ''[[All My Children]]'' (1970–2011) and ''[[One Life to Live]]'' (1968–2012), notable past soap operas seen on the daytime lineup include ''[[Ryan's Hope]]'', ''[[Dark Shadows]]'', ''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]'', ''[[The City (1995 TV series)|The City]]'' and ''[[Port Charles]]''. ABC also aired the last nine years of the [[Procter & Gamble]]-produced soap ''[[The Edge of Night]]'', following its cancellation by CBS in 1975. ABC Daytime has also aired several game shows, including ''[[The Dating Game]]'', ''[[The Newlywed Game]]'', ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'', ''[[Password (American game show)|Password]]'', ''[[Split Second (game show)|Split Second]]'', ''[[Pyramid (game show)|The $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid]]'', ''[[Family Feud]]'', ''[[The Better Sex]]'', ''[[Trivia Trap]]'', ''[[All-Star Blitz]]'' and ''[[Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak|Hot Streak]]''.

=== Sports ===
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Sports programming is provided on occasion, primarily on weekend afternoons and Saturday evenings. In 2006, the ABC Sports division was shut down, with all sports telecasts on ABC since then being produced in association with sister cable network [[ESPN]] under the branding [[ESPN on ABC]]. General industry trends and changes in rights have prompted reductions in sports on broadcast television, with Disney preferring to schedule the majority of its sports rights on the networks of ESPN (until 2020).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/major-sporting-events-becoming-even-dispersed-across-television.html|title=Major sporting events are becoming even more dispersed across television|date=March 29, 2017|website=Awful Announcing|language=en-US|access-date=December 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/sports/ncaafootball/06sandomir.html|title=As Bowls Migrate to Cable, Viewership Is Just a Number|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=January 4, 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 29, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Since 2020 ESPN has prioritized ABC with airings of its sports telecasts with occasional simulcasts and exclusive games of ESPN ''Monday Night Football'' broadcasts on ABC.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-abc-might-add-super-bowls-mnf-flex-scheduling-in-next-nfl-deal.html |title=It looks like ESPN/ABC might add Super Bowls and Monday Night Football flex scheduling in the next NFL TV deal |website=awfulannouncing.com |last=Bucholtz |first=Andrew |date=December 16, 2020 |access-date=July 21, 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217040720/https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-abc-might-add-super-bowls-mnf-flex-scheduling-in-next-nfl-deal.html |archive-date=December 17, 2020 }}</ref>

Since 2006, ABC has at least aired ten weeks of primetime sports programming, and since 2020 has aired sports programming almost every week from September to May each year (with primetime encores and movies airing the remainder of the year).

ABC is the broadcast television rightsholder of the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA), with its package (under the ''[[NBA on ESPN]]'' branding) traditionally beginning with its [[National Basketball Association Christmas games|Christmas Day games]], followed by a series of [[NBA Saturday Primetime|Saturday night]] and Sunday afternoon games through the remainder of the season, weekend [[NBA Playoffs|playoff]] games, and all games of the [[NBA Finals]]. ABC is also the broadcast television rightsholder of the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL), with its package (under the ''[[NHL on ESPN]]'' branding). In this deal, ABC broadcasts at least 10 regular season games (mostly afternoon), the [[NHL All-Star Game]], the [[NHL Stadium Series]], and four [[Stanley Cup Finals]]. During [[ESPN College Football on ABC|college football]] season, ABC typically carries an afternoon doubleheader on Saturdays, along with the primetime ''[[Saturday Night Football]]''. ABC also airs coverage of selected bowl games, ABC is also the secondary broadcast partner of [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) with the network at least airing wild card series games since 2020 (except for 2021) and select [[Sunday Night Baseball]] games by sister network ESPN. Beginning in the [[2015 NFL season]], ESPN agreed to begin simulcasting/exclusively airing NFL games on ABC.<ref name=":0" /> Thus, ABC is the only major broadcast network that carries games from all of the traditional "big four" sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL).

During the late winter months, ABC airs both men's and women's college basketball games on weekend afternoons. In the spring and summer months, ABC also airs games (usually on weekends) from the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA), and is the broadcast home of the [[X Games]] and [[Little League World Series]].

In 2015, ESPN's annual [[ESPY Awards]] presentation moved to ABC from ESPN. Bolstered by [[Caitlyn Jenner]] accepting the inaugural [[Arthur Ashe Courage Award]] during the ceremony, the [[2015 ESPY Awards]]' viewership was roughly tripled over the 2014 ceremony on ESPN.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/espn-upfront-share-nfl-football-wild-card-espys-abc-1201493164/|title=ESPN To Share Football, ESPYs With ABC|last=Steinberg|first=Brian|date=May 12, 2015|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=January 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/ratings-espy-awards-soar-on-abc-cbs-big-brother-steady-1201541579/|title=Ratings: ESPY Awards Soar on ABC, CBS' 'Big Brother' Steady|last=Kissell|first=Rick|date=July 16, 2015|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=January 4, 2020}}</ref>

After the NFL signed a new contract with [[the Walt Disney Company]], ABC will air Super Bowl LXI in 2027 and Super Bowl LXV in 2031. ABC has not aired a [[Super Bowl]] since [[Super Bowl XL]] in 2006.

===Specials===
ABC currently holds the broadcast rights to the [[Academy Award]]s, [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s,{{efn|Broadcast rights to the Primetime Emmy Awards are rotated across all four major networks on a year-to-year basis}} and the [[Country Music Association Awards]].{{efn|Along with two associated specials, the ''[[CMA Music Festival]]'' and ''CMA Country Christmas''.}}<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=24kGoldn & Iann Dior's 'Mood' No. 1 on Hot 100 for Fourth Week, Becomes Most-Streamed Song for First Time|url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/24kgoldn-iann-dior-mood-number-one-fourth-week-hot-100/|access-date=February 15, 2022|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> ABC has also aired the [[Miss America]] competition from 1954 to 1956, 1997 to 2004, and 2011 to 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=ABC TO BROADCAST MISS AMERICA IN ATLANTIC CITY, NJ |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/miss-america-heads-back-atlantic-city-nj-0 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=February 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007161608/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/miss-america-heads-back-atlantic-city-nj-0 |archive-date=October 7, 2013}}</ref>

From February 2001 to February 14, 2020, ABC held the television rights to most of the ''[[Peanuts]]'' television specials, having acquired the broadcast rights from CBS, which originated the specials in 1965 with the debut of ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (other ''Peanuts'' specials broadcast annually by ABC, in addition to ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'', include ''[[Charlie Brown's All Stars!]]'', ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]'', ''[[You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown]]'', ''[[A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving]]'', ''[[It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown]]'', ''[[Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown]]'', ''[[She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown]]'', ''[[Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!]]'', ''[[This Is America, Charlie Brown|The Mayflower Voyagers]]'', ''[[A Charlie Brown Valentine]]'', ''[[Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales]]'' and ''[[I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown]]''). ABC also broadcasts the annual ''[[Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade]]'' special on Christmas morning.

Since 1974, ABC has generally aired ''[[Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve]]'' – a New Year's Eve special featuring music performances and coverage of festivities in New York's [[Times Square Ball|Times Square]].{{efn|The only exception was in 1999, when ABC instead broadcast ''[[ABC 2000 Today]]'', a day-long telecast produced by ABC News as part of the ''[[2000 Today]]'' consortium, which was hosted by [[Peter Jennings]] and covered festivities from around the world (Dick Clark co-hosted coverage from Times Square).}} ABC is also among the broadcasters of the [[Rose Parade|Tournament of Roses Parade]] (although as mentioned, the [[Rose Bowl Game]] now airs exclusively on ESPN as a College Football Playoff "[[New Year's Six]]" bowl).

===Programming library===
ABC owns nearly all of its in-house television and theatrical productions made since the 1970s, except certain co-productions (for example, ''[[The Commish]]'' is now owned by the estate of its producer, [[Stephen J. Cannell|Stephen Cannell]]). Worldwide video rights are currently owned by various companies, for example, [[Kino Lorber]] owns the North American home video rights to the ABC feature film library (along with some lesser-known live-action films from Disney's library, mostly from [[Touchstone Pictures]], [[Hollywood Pictures]] and [[20th Century Studios]]).

When the FCC imposed its [[Financial Interest and Syndication Rules]] in 1970, ABC proactively created two companies: Worldvision Enterprises as a syndication distributor, and ABC Circle Films as a production company. However, between the publication and implementation of these regulations, the separation of the network's catalog was made in 1973. The broadcast rights to pre-1973 productions were transferred to Worldvision, which became independent in the same year. The company has been sold several times since [[Paramount Television]] acquired it in 1999, and has most recently been absorbed into [[CBS Media Ventures]] (formerly CBS Television Distribution), a unit of [[Paramount Global]], which owns the competitor [[CBS]]. Nonetheless, Worldvision sold portions of its catalog, including the [[Ruby-Spears]] and Hanna-Barbera libraries, to [[Turner Broadcasting System]] (now a part of [[Warner Bros.]] parent company [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]) in 1991. With Disney's 1996 purchase of ABC, ABC Circle Films was absorbed into Touchstone Television, a Disney subsidiary which in turn was renamed ABC Studios in 2007.<ref name="WDC-ABC">{{cite news|title=Disney to Drop Buena Vista Brand Name, People Say (Update1)|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0MG17nO.PG8|first=Andy|last=Fixmer|work=Bloomberg, L.P.|date=April 25, 2007|access-date=November 28, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019154748/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0MG17nO.PG8|archive-date=October 19, 2012}}</ref>

Also part of the library are most films in the [[David O. Selznick]] library, productions from their previous motion picture divisions [[List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company#ABC Pictures International|ABC Pictures International]], [[List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company#Selmur Productions|Selmur Productions]], and [[List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company#Palomar Pictures International|Palomar Pictures International]] (before its takeover by Bristol-Myers-Squibb) released by [[Cinerama Productions]] (films produced by the company themselves are now under the control of [[Pacific Theatres]]), their later theatrical division [[List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company#ABC Motion Pictures|ABC Motion Pictures]], and the in-house productions it continues to produce (such as ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'', ''General Hospital'', ABC News productions, and series from [[Disney Television Studios]] ([[ABC Signature]] and [[20th Television]]). [[Disney–ABC Domestic Television]] (formerly known as Buena Vista Television and 20th Television) handles domestic television distribution, while [[Disney Media Distribution|Disney–ABC International Television]] (formerly known as Buena Vista International Television) handles international television distribution.