Editing American Broadcasting Company (section)

==Facilities and studios==
All of ABC's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates have had their facilities and studios,{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} but transverse entities have been created to produce national programming. As a result, television series were produced by ABC Circle Films beginning in 1962 and by Touchstone Television beginning in 1985, before Touchstone was reorganized as [[ABC Studios]] in February 2007 and later renamed to its current name [[ABC Signature]] in August 2020. Since the 1950s, ABC has had two main production facilities: the ABC Television Center (now [[The Prospect Studios]]) on [[Hollywood Boulevard|Prospect Avenue]] in [[Hollywood, California]], shared with the operations of KABC-TV until 1999, and the ABC Television Center, East, a set of studios located throughout New York City.

In addition to the headquarters building on Riverside Drive, other ABC facilities in Burbank include a building at 3800 West Alameda, known as 'Burbank Center', which is primarily associated with [[Walt Disney Television|Walt Disney Entertainment Television]] and functions as the headquarters and broadcast center for [[Disney Channel]], [[Disney Junior]], [[Disney XD]], [[Freeform (TV channel)|Freeform]], [[FX (TV channel)|FX]], [[National Geographic (American TV channel)|National Geographic]], and the former [[Radio Disney]]. Additionally, [[Disney Television Animation]] has a facility on Empire Avenue near the [[Hollywood Burbank Airport]]. In nearby [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], Disney/ABC also maintains the [[Grand Central Airport (California)#Grand Central Creative Campus|Grand Central Creative Campus]], which houses other company subsidiaries, including the studios of KABC-TV and the Los Angeles bureau of ABC News.

ABC owns several facilities in New York, grouped mainly on West 66th Street, with the main set of facilities on the corner of Columbus Avenue. These facilities occupy a combined {{convert|105,000|ft2}} across two blocks with a total area of {{convert|159,000|ft2}}. This main set of buildings includes:
* 77 West 66th Street, a 22-story building built in 1988 on a {{convert|175|x|200|ft|m|adj=on}} plot;
* A pair of buildings at 147–155 Columbus Avenue (ten and seven stories) connected by glass bays, constructed on a {{convert|150|x|200|ft|m|adj=on}} plot;
* 30 West 67th Street, a 15-story building with a facade on 67th Street on a {{convert|100|x|100|ft|m|adj=on}} plot;
* 56 West 66th Street, the former [[First Battery Armory]] of the New York National Guard, a five-story building on a {{convert|174|x|100|ft|m|adj=on}} plot.
ABC also owns 7, 17 and 47 West 66th Street, three buildings on a {{convert|375|x|100|ft|m|adj=on}} plot. The block of West 66th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, which houses the ABC News building, was renamed Peter Jennings Way in 2006 in honor of the then-recently deceased news anchor.<ref>{{cite news|title=ABC Block Re-Named "Peter Jennings Way"|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/abc-block-re-named-peter-jennings-way-78926|first=John|last=Eggerton|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|publisher=[[NewBay Media]]|date=February 21, 2006|access-date=February 16, 2022}}</ref>

Disney formerly leased {{convert|70000|sqft|m²|abbr=on}} at 157 Columbus Avenue, on the northern side of 67th Street.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brodsky to Renovate 157 Columbus Avenue Following Disney Departure|url=http://commercialobserver.com/2013/02/brodsky-to-renovate-157-columbus-avenue-following-disney-departure/|first=Al|last=Barbarino|publisher=Commercial Observer|access-date=November 23, 2013}}</ref>

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File:ABC 77 W66 jeh.JPG|Entrance of ABC's headquarters at 77 West 66th Street
File:WABC-TV Columbus Av jeh.JPG|WABC-TV buildings at 147–155 Columbus Avenue and behind 157 Columbus Avenue
File:First Battery Armory 66th jeh.JPG|ABC facilities in the former [[First Battery Armory]] of the New York National Guard
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ABC also owns the [[Times Square Studios]] at 1500 Broadway, on land owned by a development fund for the [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]] Project. Opened in 1999, ''Good Morning America'' is broadcast from this facility. ABC News has premises on West 66th Street, in a six-story building occupying a {{convert|196|x|379|ft|m|adj=on}} plot at 121–135 [[West End Avenue]].

On July 9, 2018, the Walt Disney Company announced that it was selling its two West 66th Street campuses (except for the National Guard Amory) to [[Silverstein Properties]] and purchasing one square block of property in lower Manhattan to build a new New York-based broadcast center.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/nyregion/disney-move-upper-west-side-hudson-square.html|title=Disney Will Move New York Operations to Lower Manhattan|last=Bagli|first=Charles V.|date=July 9, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref>