Editing American Broadcasting Company (section)

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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).