Editing American Broadcasting Company (section)

===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.