The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948. The network currently has eight owned-and-operated stations, and current affiliation agreements with 242 other television stations. [1] [2] [3]
This article is a listing of current ABC affiliates in the continental United States and U.S. possessions (including subchannel affiliates, satellite stations and select low-power translators), arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license, and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is its virtual channel number.
Stations listed in boldface are owned and operated by ABC through its subsidiary ABC Owned Television Stations.
| Company | No. of Affiliates owned |
|---|---|
| ABC Owned Television Stations | 8 |
| Allen Media Broadcasting | 17 |
| Bahakel Communications | 2 |
| BendBroadband | 1 |
| Block Communications | 3 |
| Coastal Television Broadcasting Company | 7 |
| Cowles Company | 3 |
| Cox Media Group | 3 |
| Cunningham Broadcasting | 4 |
| E. W. Scripps Company | 18 |
| Forum Communications | 4 |
| Graham Media Group | 1 |
| Gray Television | 30 |
| Hearst Television | 16 |
| Hubbard Broadcasting | 5 |
| Imagicomm Communications | 2 |
| Lilly Broadcasting | 2 |
| Lockwood Broadcast Group | 5 |
| Marquee Broadcasting | 1 |
| Manship Family | 2 |
| Mission Broadcasting | 7 |
| Morgan Murphy Media | 7 |
| Morris Multimedia | 2 |
| News-Press & Gazette Company | 7 |
| Nexstar Media Group | 23 |
| SagamoreHill Broadcasting | 1 |
| Sinclair Broadcast Group | 39 |
| Standard Media | 2 |
| Sunbeam Television | 1 |
| Tegna Inc. | 13 |
| Vaughan Media | 2 |
| Weigel Broadcasting | 1 |
Some ABC programming is broadcast on the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).